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Well it is almost finished! In the photo l. To r. 10 string mandolin, mandola, mandolin. Mine is the mandolin.
Mark

Here is an photo update on my Wilkie Northern Flyer mando.
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One good photo deserves another. Here is another photo of my quilted.78140
At this point I should mention that haven't been playing much lately. I nicked the tip of my index finger on my left hand...

Thanks for the comments and for those who have not seen photos of one of my other Wilkie mandolins here is a photo of the back of my quilted mando. I snagged the photo from Wyatt's web site.78084...

779417794277943Here are the first photos of my newest Wilkie mandolin that is under construction. This will be my first curly maple mandolin. What do you all think??

779387793977940Here we go with some photos of my newest Wilkie mandolin under construction. Looks like it will be a goodin'
Mark

Blauserk...With regards to Waverly's on a mandolin.
David Grisman says "Simply the best you can get"
Chris Thile says "The best tuners in the world"
Sam Bush says "They have changed my life"...

When asked "why i thought the Waverly gears where worth the money"

Saturday I had a gig with my accordionist partner and arrived 15 minuets late. She had already started playing. I started...

Looking forward to seeing the back wood cut and bookmatched

Here is a photo of the wood for the mandolin7528075279
The photo on the left has top, back, neck, sides. Photo on right, neck, sides, back.

The precision cut gears make tuning easier

Update. The Canadian Postal Strike has prevented Wyatt from ordering the wood. I wonder if the strike is over? Anyhow he sent me a photo of a Northern Flyer archtop guitar and mandolin he took to the...

I just got the ball rolling on a new mandolin form Wyatt Wilkie. http://wilkiestringedinstruments.com/ It will be the Northern Flyer model. This will make my 3rd mandolin from the Wilkie luthiery....

The music was very good and the cinematography was even better. Must be time to upgrade my DSLR.

Here is a way to take dents out of wood. Let us know if it works. :grin:cdtsa4Sazvw
Guess we have to do it like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtsa4Sazvw

Good luck with you squeeze box. My main gig these days is Mandolin and Accordion. We play mostly French and Italian cafe / folk music.
We bill ourselves as Karina and Marco. Karen (Karina) is an...

Buy the mandolin. ( This is mandolin cafe, not macbook cafe) Actually the macbook will be obsolete in 2 years and the mandolin will last a lifetime.

I was standing at the mouth of the Chetco river here in my home town of Brookings, Oregon this morning watching the river flow the wrong direction. Then it changed directions and the river and Port...

I have some of the 200.00 strings and will let them go for 150.00 (just kidding of course)

Here is a goodin'
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I bought my Bluegrass Mandolin book in 1976 and learned most of the songs too. This is what the cover looks like today.
Mark

I use one of my cameras that is capable of taking close ups (Canon S2IS) and a flashlight as a light source rather than the camera flash to take a photo of a label then put the photo on the computer...

We are Karina & Marco and I put down my Wilkie mandolin momentarily to play my bass for a couple of songs. This is my first bass and it is a 1937 King Mortone. We play Italian and French folk music...

Your first mandolin is never you last mandolin.

Speaking of sound clips, here is a re-posted sound clip of one of my Wilkie Northern Flyers. That right, i have 2 Wilkie Northern Flyers. The first one i bought while Wyatt was still employed at...