Mandolins in progress

[Pete Jenner]

A bold move Steve.

[TDMpicker]

Thought I would post a few photos of my recently completed F5 (in the white).
It features an "old Growth" California redwood top with maple back, sides and neck.
The fretboard is ebony with EVO gold frets. Nut width 1 1/8" with a Cumberland Acoustics bridge. The redwood billet came from Oregon Wild Woods I wanted to build a redwood topped F5 because I own a redwood top Dearstone F5 which has a great tone. I am very pleased with the tone on this build. I'll play it a couple weeks before I break it down for finishing.

[Jim Hilburn]

Much the same as the last one but this is better.

[Bill Snyder]

Some mandolins have tiger striped backs. That one would appear to have the rare zebra striped back.

[Pete Jenner]

I think he used striped paint.

[oldwave maker]

Stained and shellac sealed maples, half of Santa's seasonal sweatshop supply: roasted, red, blister, birdseye, bigleaf

[Frank Russell]

Beautiful, Mr. B. Come on Christmas.

[Bob Clark]

I'll play it a couple weeks before I break it down for finishing.

Looks beautiful, Terry. What are you going to use to finish it? Keeping it light, going with a burst, uniform stain? And what's the neck profile like on this one? Is it similar to your A/Ns? I find the neck profile on your A/N to be really comfortable. Congratulations on another really pretty build. I look forward to seeing the finished photos.

Best wishes, Bob

[Killian King]

He used striped paint to match my wavy striped playing style.

[harryclark]

Bernabe #33 in the white.

[Killian King]

Here is another shot of the striped mandolin Jim posted above.

[Steve Sorensen]

Just wrapped-up the test drive on these three. On to finishing!



Steve

[Mandoborg]

Was sanding out to 320 and thought I was in the clear when i got a little careless and up popped this lil critter !

[Steve Sorensen]

Cleaning up the binding on this fairly traditional sunburst over Engelmann spruce and Red maple --



Yep, both top and back are one-piece!

Just about ready for some varnish to add that deep deep glow.

Steve

[Larry S Sherman]

Stained and shellac sealed maples, half of Santa's seasonal sweatshop supply: roasted, red, blister, birdseye, bigleaf

I LOVE the birdseye!

Larry

[oldwave maker]

Trying to get those drunken elves to finish up before mallwart gets the valentines day decorations up, not sure how the big one got strung up missing 2 strings. Must be a rawlings thing....No birds had their eyes plucked in the production of these!

[D18dave]

[John Hill]

Love that design!

[D18dave]

[oldwave maker]

Couldn't find any plain maple for the backs of that litter above, so went with the squiggly stuff, shot a bit of color and shellac sealer on blister, quilt, red, quilt, and sugar. Hoping to do some fall foliage photobombs of finish figure before the cottonwood yellow and sycamore orange is gone from the canyon.

[craigw]

I thought I'd post a progress shot of two symmetric 2-point mandolas I have in the works, targeted to take up to Wintergrass in late February. One will be quarter sawn white oak topped with some really nicely figured bearclaw sitka spruce I got from Johann Brentrup in a visit to Minneapolis about three years ago. The other is a one piece WVA red maple back, sides and neck from John Preston and a red spruce top from Old Standard. Will start carving this week.

[Pete Jenner]

10 points for your 2 points. ...but then I'm a 2 point fan.

[bernabe]

stained, sealed, and scraped

[Pete Jenner]

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

...cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Here are some Pagan Sagan fretboards. Sanding still required obviously.

[Steve Sorensen]

Noice, Pete!

Steve