Mandolins in progress

[Pete Jenner]

Haha - very good.

[Timothy S]

If I read the headstock correctly, looks like I'll be the owner of Kimble #220. Just got the photo from Will today.

[Killian King]

I am currently waiting on Jacobson #34 and Hilburn #65. All I can think of to describe how I feel about it is embarrassment of riches. Here are a few photos of Hilburn #65. If you read Jim's thread about wood imperfections you will be familiar with the back of my mandolin. That blonde OM's loss was my sunburst A's gain.

[Pete Jenner]

Miters well do some binding.

[Skip Kelley]

Nice miters, Peter!

[Pete Jenner]

Thanks Skip.

[Graham McDonald]

Just acceptable

[QUOTE=Pete Jenner;1320686]Miters well do some binding.

[Pete Jenner]

High praise indeed from a master Mr Mac.

[Steve Sorensen]

I like building in sets of five. This set ran amok and kept multiplying.

Steve

[kyken]

Here's a redwood one in progress, killer sound. For Dominic Orrico.

[wildpikr]

Hi Ken,

Does he make the Orrico tailpieces?

[kyken]

Hi Ken,

Does he make the Orrico tailpieces?

yep, he's the one. I'll have one of his on it too as soon as he sends me one.

[Dan Douris]

Latest mandolin build. My 3rd mandolin build, 1st F style. Sold now onto #4!

[Steve Sorensen]

Shot from the studio of mandolin (and mandola) progress. From the dusty shop, it makes all those long days and sore fingers feel fairly well-spent!



Steve

[Max Girouard]

Hey Dan, great job on your build. I followed most of it on facebook. Have fun with the next build!

We received an interesting set of maple from American Specialty Hardwoods. It is a book matched piece of maple that has gone through a torrefication process. I have purposely not read a whole lot about it as I don't want to develop any preconceived notions of how this wood will sound in a build. I'm simply going to build it as I would any other mandolin, feeling how it flexes and graduating as necessary. I'm going to be pairing it up with some wonderful western red cedar that Spruce Bruce over at Orcas Island Tonewoods has. He has some of the greatest cedar in at the moment and I wish I could buy it all up. I'll also be binding this in regular flame maple so that the contrast between regular and roasted maple will be really interesting to look at. Finally, the hardware will be a gold James tailpiece and a set of Robson tuners. In the second photo, I wet it down so you can see the color when wet. We will be finishing it "blonde" so that color in the photo will be the approximate color once finished.

[Dan Douris]

Thanks Max! I find this building thing very addicting and I real enjoy the process except all the wood removal by hand on the plates. I am actually building a duplicarver before I start my next build to take some of the stress of my hands from gouging and grind out so much of the wood. I know you use a CNC which I would like to acquire someday. Bruce Harvey has some real nice tonewoods. The mando I just finished is all from wood I received from him.

[Pete Jenner]

Max does that golden colour go all the way through the wood or is it a surface effect?

[Max Girouard]

Max does that golden colour go all the way through the wood or is it a surface effect?

It is the same color all the way through. I've got a couple of pieces of ash that were done with the same process only longer. Those pieces are almost as black as ebony and the color runs through the whole board. From what I heard, they put the wood in a chamber and pump all the oxygen out of the chamber. They then heat up the chamber somewhere around 400 degrees for several hours. Also smells like bacon. Sanding should be fun.

[Pete Jenner]

Make sure you have bacon sandwiches handy or you'll be hungry all the time.

[darrylicshon]

My 5 string OM Solidbody
http://darrylicshon.4t.com/cgi-bin/p...w_album/261351

[Steve Sorensen]

As the summer comes to a close, it's almost harvest time here in California and the maples are once again loaded with ripening mandolins.



Steve

[oldwave maker]

The hot green chile/mandolin gene splicing program is proceeding quicker than the chile/octave, but we're working on it. Wishing there were true maples here and not just the box elders.

[Charles E.]

Now that's funny right there.

[Steve Sorensen]

Absolutely perfect French Polishing weather. This is a one-piece sugar maple back after the first session of shellac (+sanderac) over an oil varnish base.



Steve

[kyken]

here's one I'm building for Orrico.