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  1. Re: Walnut/Spruce mandolin handmade in Ireland

    Yeah, I Know HOW it got here, I was just really surprised thats all! thanks again for nice comments..... I build for fun, so I end up making instruments that I want to. I've done commissions in the...
  2. Re: Walnut/Spruce mandolin handmade in Ireland

    HUH?

    how'd that get here?

    thanks for the free publicity!
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    Re: Neck-through body flat-top

    yes, an ancient thread, but still......

    there is a ....... well..... unconventional would be a polite way of putting it..... guy on a number of forums caller "the Padma" dunno if he shows his...
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    Re: Bob Taylor disses Tenors!

    Martin are making them again too....

    theres a Seth Lakeman sig model.

    My guess is that if Martin sell a bunch at thier price point, Taylor might just jump in too.

    In the mean time, us hobby...
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    Re: Tenor Guitar tuning - CGDA vs GDAE ????

    In Ireland we like to be contrary....

    or to use a good Donegal word, "Thrand"

    HERE, tenor banjo is tuned GDAE

    tenor guitars?

    the ONLY one I've ever seen in Ireland is the one that I made...
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    Re: octave mandolin

    Coming from a guitar background, I prefer the feel of a pinned bridge inder my right hand.

    never got on with a tunomatic style set-up on electrics either, so I'm a strat man rather than Les Paul...
  7. Re: anyone daft enough to have built a fan fret tenor guitar?

    Sorry for my bad playing, I haven't had a tenor guitar for very long!!!


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObX-j6_TtWA
  8. Re: Sinead O'Connor - House of the Rising Sun

    she's as mad as a box of cats but she has an amazing voice
  9. Re: anyone daft enough to have built a fan fret tenor guitar?

    http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/gowanedwards/80-89/80%20fan%20fret%20tenor%20guitar/Picture210.jpg
    ...
  10. Re: anyone daft enough to have built a fan fret tenor guitar?

    well,PART of running the after school club is justifying me cluttering up the place with my own builds......

    we also tend to specialise on woodworking projects rather than CNC Laser cut acrylic...
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    Re: Music sources : best approach

    as someone who doesn't read music......

    OK my son plays cello, and his teacher advised him to get a tenor banjo chord book to show the fingerings for chord shapes on the cello.

    then I built him...
  12. Re: anyone daft enough to have built a fan fret tenor guitar?

    its not a lot of extra work at all. I'd need a new bracing pattern for that body whether it was fanned or not and hand sawing the slots..... well I do need to mark two scales rather than just one,...
  13. Re: Double-neck Cittern/Guitar - Bouzouki/Guitar - OM/Guitar

    is there a pic?

    I cant see a pic.

    why can't I see a PIC!!!??????
  14. Re: anyone daft enough to have built a fan fret tenor guitar?

    they are from this angle!!

    scale lengths 560 & 530mm.....

    thats 22 and a hair under 21" for those still measuring in the 18th Century:grin:
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  15. Re: anyone daft enough to have built a fan fret tenor guitar?

    so.......

    teaser anyone?






    http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/gowanedwards/80-89/80%20fan%20fret%20tenor%20guitar/Picture205.jpg
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    Re: Fixed Bridge Question

    I made a bridge spotter jig. it hangs on the end of a guitar and then I run the two E strings through it and hold the bridge in place like a floater. this allows me to slither it about until the...
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    Re: construction- no tailpiece ?

    Oh yeah, as to intonation changes with new string gauges, you cut a new saddle. not a HUGE job, but certainly an aquirable skill!
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    Re: construction- no tailpiece ?

    we're talking two different instruments.

    as has been said before, a pinned bridge needs a different bracing system and a hardwood bridgeplate.

    most likely, a pinned bridge mando (or mandola or...
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    Re: Learning Tenor Guitar

    Dunno about stateside, but there has been a resurgence of interest on this side of the pond mainly because of Seth Lakeman

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-ZdSLaUOY

    He plays a pair of vintage...
  20. Re: anyone daft enough to have built a fan fret tenor guitar?

    Nice looking instrument, thanks!

    Now I'm going to HAVE to build one....... it'll look a LOT stranger than that beauty though.......

    I'll post pics when I get it going.
  21. anyone daft enough to have built a fan fret tenor guitar?

    I have a hankering for a tenor guitar.

    I'm at the thinking out loud stage.......

    I'll probably shift the soundhole to the top edge rather than on the front to give more top surface while still...
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    Re: Fan Frets on a Mandocello?

    I've built several guitars & bass guitar with fans.

    on a purely playabliity perspective, I find that a perpendicular 9th fret works for ME, and on a guitar scale length, making the shorter string...
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    Re: 3 sick mandos needing repair.....

    hijack away!!

    thanks for the cleaning tips folks, always helpful!

    as to cost of repair?

    just a hobby. I've promised not to make it any worse than it already is, and he's happy for any/all...
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    3 sick mandos needing repair.....

    A guy phoned out of the blue. he'd seen one of my mandos on ebay and wondered if I could do some repairs for his collection of wounded instruments......

    first is a hofner that the stacked heel...
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    Re: Spalted Wood for Back and Sides?

    you could be right, but I was under the impression that mould is a tricky little enemy and will go into a dormant state......

    until the RH rises again.

    it THIS case the wood has been kiln deied...
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