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Hi there, I haven't been active on the cafe for quite a while, but since I shared these pictures elsewhere I thought I would post them here too.

This is my ten year old Arches F4 mandolin which...

I tend to agree as much as I love this instrument. One thing that is remarkable is how loud it is!

Hi folks,

It has been years since I was active here, but I still play my mandolins.

Guess who I ran into at a nearby luthier's shop in Oakland/Emeryville, CA?
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Forgot to include the URL:

http://www.fatdawg.com/

It isn't mandolin, but if you are in Berkeley and are interested in guitars


FATDOG'S
WORLD FAMOUS

SUBWAY GUITARS
1800 Cedar Street
Berkeley
Planet Earth

Well, this only means I am now "ABD" (all but dissertation) so in fact there's still a lot of work ahead. Thanks anyways!

Thanks folks! I hope you all are enjoying summer.

Here's a nice pic from Chris' own website.

Chris Baird, the talented luthier known to visit this section of the message board, built my F4 mandolin and signed it June 21, 2005. I get tremendous enjoyment from this instrument!
So today is...

SternART, any Heiden fest or other comando-related event this spring?

Chris, another lovely mandolin. I am so happy to see you building these nice F styles. Let me say again that I really, really like and enjoy the F4 you built for me. I only have a few instruments and...

Starving graduate student here. Unfortunately, I can't afford a mandolin lifestyle. However, I got my best mando by placing a deposit with the builder and then coming up with the remaining part over...

Just a heads up concerning mando content on the new DVD "Phil Lesh & Friends: Live at the Warfield" (released 10-31-06).

Larry Campbell (http://members.cox.net/larrycampbell2000/bio.htm), who...

This is just the start. I think Chris is destined to be recognized as one of the great modern mandolin luthiers. I've used up a lot of bandwidth here already describing how much I love my Arches F4....

Cool. Very iconographic and violinesque (if that's a word).

Brian this is absolutely intruiging. The piccolo is doing great, just so you know.

Revray, that looks great. I'm sure it will be a nice partner to your Brian Dean OM.

I was very interested to buy this one. Not able to do it now, I'm looking ahead to some other sort of archtop Arches octave mando in the future. An Arches OM with a archtop guitar-like body design...

Bill what is the scale legnth of the ten string dola?

Is it designed for cgdae tuning? Thanks very fine looking mandos there buddy.

It is essentially a gig bag. The leather exterior adds a little more stiffness to it than cordura nylon. The interior is lined with a foam padding. He took a tracing and various measurments of the...

The inside of the case has nice leather reinforcements in the tuner and bridge areas.

The only suggestion I would make when ordering a F case from him in the future would be to ask for a little...

Here's the side pocket.

Sorry for the lowres cell phone picture. My proper digital camera stopped working recently.

I'll put a few pics up when I get a chance, but before then I thought to mention the case I had Glenn Cronkhite make for my F4. I needed a soft case for bringing the mandolin around locally. I was...

The headstock on Arches F4 #1.