Mandolins in progress

**mandoman15** · Aug-19-2005, 7:19pm

yeah that binding's nice, i like how its blaack/brown on body and brown black onthe fretboard

**oldwave maker** · Aug-20-2005, 5:09pm

Guitar shaped octave 14.5" wide back, looks like a 1 pc but there are 1/4" wings on the lower bout, $3.30/bd.ft. in northern wisconsin a decade ago, wish I'd been driving an empty semi.....

**Ted Eschliman** · Aug-20-2005, 5:55pm

Yum! (But if that were my TV set, I'd be adjusting the Verical Hold...)

**JEStanek** · Aug-21-2005, 8:28pm

Ted,
That's some seious flame inside of some notty pine.
Jamie
PS I love my Jazz Mando Strings.

**Brier** · Aug-25-2005, 5:06pm

#4

**mandoman15** · Aug-25-2005, 9:03pm

looking good brier, f4 or 5. btw the quilt on the table is amazing, make a back out of it..

**Brier** · Aug-26-2005, 10:55am

John,
It will be an F-5 with hard rock maple. I love the look of quilt in the big leaf but it's a bit soft for the sound I'm trying to shoot for.
Peter.

**labraid** · Aug-26-2005, 7:06pm

So she's for a double bass player-builder-afficionado:

**Brier** · Aug-26-2005, 8:24pm

Brian,
Wow that's wonderful, send pic's when you put a finish on it,please!

**Guitar Jeremy** · Aug-26-2005, 8:38pm

Brian, what kind of wood are you using for the binding? Gorgeous instrument.

**labraid** · Aug-26-2005, 8:47pm

Hi, that's a homemade wood binding, cherry and blackwood. I'm leaving it stained... I'd been asking myself, the whole sunburst idea, isn't it to sort of imitate age? Strange that the bindings never "age" with the rest right? So leaving it as is.
This is with one coat of oil varnish, the amber shellac starts in a day or two and it'll deepen to a more amber-yellow..

(Avalon Blues, gotta love John Hurt!)