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I don't believe in using any tools that weren't available to Lloyd Loar back in the day when building a mandolin. LOL- just yanking your chain. Although I have to say that there was something...
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Rod-
I don't believe in using any tools that weren't available to Lloyd Loar back in the day when building a mandolin. LOL- just yanking your chain. Although I have to say that there was something...
To elaborate on what Harley Marty said:
The nut slots should slope slightly towards the tuning head and form a break angle at the "front" of the nut adjacent to the fingerboard. Not making sure...
Another idea- get a Baby Taylor guitar and convert it. I've heard that they are excellent candidates for conversion to octave mandolins.
My experience mirrors Cameronium's- I built a carved mandolin that had no bass, and was unhappy with it. Notably, when I played it, I couldn't feel the back vibrating at all against my stomach. It...
Keep the present mando as-is and buy another with binding. Good excuse to get another. LOL
In any case, if the current mando is a really good one and you get deep into the music, it'll wind up...
Can't hurt at all of course, and doing an archtop would give you an intro to carving and graduating plates. After building my first, and only, mandolin (an A5 replica) and having built numerous...
In general, how do you recognize that a vintage instrument has been oversprayed in the past?
I'm assuming that overspraying is done to make a finish look better? How does one decide when to...
I've been off-planet for a bit and have a question now that I've returned- when did guitar shaped octave mandolins take over the CBOM world, and why? I do miss the elegantly shaped A-style bodies.
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Sometimes you know what you want, you know what it does, and you know it exists. What you don't know is the proper search term, so google is useless. It is maddening.
Then you risk the flames, and...
Try to get some light into it, with a strong LED flash light for instance, and take it into a dark room. That might give some insight into whether or not it's a crack. Be careful and don't ding the...
Dick- At this point I'd be happy to give them to you for the cost of shipping. That way they won't end up in a landfill somewhere when I croak. LOL
Text me at 386.438.9810
You know- I totally forgot about looking there. Thank you!
I'd like to put a backstrap on a neck I'm making and can't figure out exactly how you fit one. Looks like the headstock is thinned, and a ramp is made in the neck shaft. What I want to know is how to...
I'm the OP- let me add one more data point that complicates matters a bit. The actual thing I want to do is trade a Collings MT for a Fender Stratocaster. It would have to be either a vintage or high...
This will probably be controversial, but I'm the curious type and am going to ask:
The question is about establishing trade values on instruments; we'll say "mandolins" because this is a mandolin...
I saw a big bandsaw like that running once, and I was impressed with how slowly the wheel was turning. You don't need many rpms to move a lot of linear feet of blade when the wheels are that large.
I bought a cheap oscillating drum sander from Harbor Freight and put an ad-hoc fence on it. It worked well for thinning sides in a controlled manner.
I ran across this on Facebook market place and decided to post it here- a big old bandsaw, in pretty sad shape but probably a candidate for restoration, for $300. If I were younger, I'd probably be...
Lighter gauge strings may help if the issue is binding at the nut. The mandolin may have originally been set up for light strings, and heavier strings don't fit the slots.
I don't see why it needs to be any more complicated than the setup James Condino describes. Simple is elegant.
Looking for recommendations- do you have a favorite stand that won't damage nitrocellulose lacquer?
Back in the day when I was building I used a No. 3 tapered pin reamer with spiral flutes. Seemed to work just fine for "standard" bridge pins.
Looksl like Siminoff was on board.
This is just one of those days- no matter how I try to do it, the Cafe software insists on presenting this picture inverted. So just turn your head sideways to...
I ran across an old binder with the first 14 issues of "The String Instrument Craftsman" magazine and wondered if anyone else is familiar with this publication, and knows what eventually became of...
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Thank you for the response- I wanted to perform due diligence, but I didn't know exactly what was involved. Now I do.
Appreciation-
Rick