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A reasonable and understandable desire. I sometimes undertake major house renovations for people, and I insist before agreeing to take on a job that we stop using the word "just." It implies that we...

It's going to need a set-up.....

That contrary to my deepest heartfelt desire, that I should buy an "A" style.......

It does look both interesting and useful, especially if one plays guitar.

What is also interesting is how Pat Martino now looks like Jacques Cousteau's long lost twin.....

Exactly......(full contact rules!)......enjoy!

Hilarious.......

That old boy from Texas by way of Fort Monroe, Virginia would be very happy to know he has made that kind of lasting impression on the mandolin world.....(He wouldn't have been as...

It's very important that you do for getting the proper contact point for intonation from the leading edge of the nut, and to prevent any sitar like buzzing. Sometimes you will start to get a buzz and...

Welcome to the Cafe, Kathryn. Raising low nut slots (which is what is causing the strings to buzz against the first fret) with "slurry" in that manner is not generally considered something that is...

While it is obviously a deep field, it doesn’t have to be intimidating and can really save a lot of time over the long run.

I had nothing better to do today, so everyone who already knows all this...

I have to say, these Ovation designs really make it clear where the majority of the sound in a stringed instrument is being produced from (i.e. the top) and why laminate wood back and sides (at least...

Nice bridge design (to avoid the fault line) John......

Sheriff Andy's banjo, now that's something to get excited about!
Especially if the original drool-cup that Goober fashioned for it can be located.......

These are both great reads, and are like banjo book-ends for Smith's book;

http://www.amazon.com/Come-Hither-Go-Yonder-BLUEGRASS/dp/025207243X/ref=pd_sim_b_17
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Gorgeous...double flowerpots rule......

Add Daley, Stiver & Wiens to the above lists.
Wiens, Heiden and Beard are all Canadian builders and are world class.

Make sure you order the right options. There are different saddle styles available (the part that's broken on yours.) Two different degrees of radius or a flat one, corresponding to what kind of...

In a word, yes. It may be small, but it is vital. The price of Steve's CA bridges, for what they are and what they do do, is low in my opinion. I would personally pay twice what he asks for them.
If...

Here's a link to some pix:
Doyle's laid-back attire makes him hard to spot as usual; that red mandolin is neither his Loar, his signature model or his usual favorite "Victorian"......Anybody know...

In "Bizarro" mandolin world, everyone wants the expensive A style (signed by Morgan Monroe), but has to settle for the more economical F style to get "more bang for their buck....."

A few things:
You have only been at it for a few weeks, if you just got the thing in tune you are doing well, and it will never seem harder than it does now.
Scales, while useful and indispensable,...

Some bluegrass & Cajun fiddlers have been known to play with a flatter bridge and a looser bow to achieve triple stops, etc.
Doyle Lawson has said that he would spend hour after hour, days on end,...

Alot has happened in the last hundred years. A large percentage of young people, when asked what they would like to do in life, say they "want to be famous.." What they in fact want is a release from...

Larry Rice cast a longer shadow on bluegrass music than is immediately obvious on first glance.
I just read J.D. Crowe's autobiography, and Bobby Slone, who played bass for Crowe through thick and...

On BBC's "Wonders of the Universe" Dr. Brian Cox explained "the arrow of time" by employing the process of entropy (the second law of thermodynamics.) He molded a sandcastle and then showed it...

You do have to stretch that sentence;
Like "Manzanita was one of the most refined hard-core bluegrass albums ever recorded...."
The only reason there is no banjo on it is because J.D. Crowe was...