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- Curious about bridge compensation
- x bracing and bridge position
- Nomenclature & Rib-bending technique
- bridge placement
- Where to find pickups
- Just about 1/2 way on the IV Kit
- Pardon my French
- Fretboard removal
- Nice Stump
- hide glue
- fret groove widening
- Armrest hardware only?
- 5/16 inch tall Ivoroid/ Black /ivoroid binding?
- Adding Cosmetics
- Collings Mandolins
- side bending iron
- inside out
- Buzzing Repair Needed
- A Jr. back separations....
- IV Mando Kit
- Tea/amonia stain on IV Kit
- Help!
- cutting blade advise
- tailpiece and bridge weight
- IV Split
- Cocobolo
- Bridge height
- Binding
- Celluloid binding in the UK.
- Where can I get a pic of internal bracing?
- Tung Oil
- I wanna neck!
- Scratch repair
- Leopard Wood
- Setup in IL
- Here's the deal-you tell me what case fits IV kits
- Guitar shaped mandolins
- Ebonized fiber
- old Archtop
- Stewart-Mac vs. IV
- Headstock mass
- Pick Guard
- F2 scroll crack
- new flowerpot
- Rossman #002
- The first mando I have completed!
- Repair Person in or near Cincinnati
- interesting neck design
- Siminoff F5 kits
- Iron-on Head stock logo
- Another binding question
- String scale length conundrum
- Siminoff book
- What kind of wood is this?
- neck block design
- IV kit finishing 'disaster'
- Ebony & Lacquer
- I.S.O. 17" Mandola Template
- Look what I found in my moms backyard
- Wood
- back bracing
- Collings Varnished Instruments
- Kicker Mandolin
- Mando Building Workshop
- Bridge width
- "Not really inlay" inlay
- Markers: 9th? 10th?
- Bill James Tailpieces
- Fret positions
- Tuner bushing problem
- Filling holes...I'm in trouble...
- Hogo F 5 Plans
- repairing an old crack
- Holes for Schaller Bushings
- inlay
- My Aniane #3
- Tuning buttons
- Pickguard
- Wood Storage
- neck reshaping
- Titebond question
- Wood Moisture Meter
- A old banjolin, need to keep the skin head
- Finishing question: treatment between coats
- Plans for A-style oval hole, Gibson-style?
- IV kit progress
- Lots of fifty year old Walnut
- coatings and finishes
- chime help
- Rossman #002
- SAGA ELECTRIC MANDO CASE
- Spray gun question
- UnBound
- IV Kit: How important is exact plate thickness?
- Mold
- Space between strings in each course.
- Designing a custom mando
- Building related but not mandolin
- semi-hollow mando?
- Has Anyone Ever Heard of #CherryMaple Wood?
- IV Kit Rosewood headstock verneer, should I fill?
- cloths pins clamps for kerfing
- Top,Back and scroll carving!
- Who's the luthier from Mandarin, FL?
- Any hope for this little guy
- truss rod strip cover?
- point protecters
- Uke, the black sheep of the family
- stew-mac fretting hammer
- alternative stains/dyes
- IV kit & Truss Rods
- Fretwire
- IV kits with no F holes (or any holes) in stock
- FRETS.COM
- Waverly Bushings
- best tool to make grooves on a bridge
- Iroko as tonewood?
- highly figured red maple
- Fretboard slots too deep.
- Radius nut
- Wood resources
- Resawing...by hand
- Bracing patterns question, Oval hole proto-
- F-4 Gibson with hairline crack
- inlay question
- My first shop
- So what's a mold for?
- Bridge for Troubadour Tenor 'Dola
- Looking for players in Lockport Il Area
- My First Build (IV Kit)
- nut replacement for A9
- Ordering curly maple
- Waste Wood Question
- removing mandolin back
- My Cherry Amour
- 1920 Gibson Super-A
- Tuner for Mandolin
- Fret slots
- humidifier
- 'Teens pick guard removal
- Lynn Dudenbostel
- Buffing/scratch repair
- Weather Checking
- thinning the back as you build or after the fact
- Newbie
- a builder's story/chuckle for you
- Remobing veneer
- Vintage bushings
- Channeled ribs on Bowlbacks
- finish sanding
- PBS?
- Open A strings sound dead.
- Other Luthier forums (fora?)
- acetone resources
- Bound F holes redux
- I made one!
- bouzouki back thickness
- Type finish on a 1923 Gibson A2Z?
- What about bakelite as a nut?
- Oval hole binding
- 3-D sander
- The no powers tool mandolin
- Leveling the fingerboard/no trussrod
- Removing sharpie ink
- anyone build a stewmac violin
- MK Legacy Plus setup with flatwounds
- The basic shape of the F model ?
- Body blocks
- Mandola Tailpiece
- Oscillating spindle sander for mandolin work?
- Tonewood types
- finish?
- Rib thickness?
- Is this normal?
- the scalloping fret board
- My Mann
- Schaller grommetts
- Trussrod questions
- Tortoise binding revisted
- Inside mold and flat fingerboards
- about kits........
- cutting mandolin bibs
- Seam Separation and Cracked Top
- Seam Separation and Cracked Top
- Look at what I made
- case for IV kit
- Varnishing & Sanding
- Bone or MOP nut
- "professionally repaired top cracks"
- Wiping away dust after sanding varnish
- smoothing plane
- "30Kay" Project to begin
- Almost done
- Whats up with ROVER RM 75
- Carbon Fiber rods
- Drill press
- IV kit annoyance...
- Got my new HoGo prints!
- satin finish
- Lining question
- Buying binding router guide from stewmac
- Brekke Bridge Insert
- Bench grinder or Bench buffer
- Varnish / French Polishing
- Refretting
- bracing on inside of back plate
- universal tints
- How does nut size affect the tone
- radiused fret board and bridges
- IV kit Progress
- Sharp at the 12th...
- Top arch radius measurements
- A model tap tones
- The kits are in!
- Dead Spot...
- Plugging IV tuner holes
- Anyone know of a guitar mando.....
- Is balsa wood good to use as lining?
- Truss Rod rattling?
- Mahogany for neck
- Using hide glue
- Portuguese Mandos
- Octave mando bridge
- Luthier training
- Thickness question for you all!
- finish,s, coatings on instruments
- Tuner button came off, how to repair
- Neck blank size options
- Bridge angle
- storing tools
- Finally got some pics of my IV kit uploaded
- Harvesting spruce - Picea Abies
- Rib patch
- deluxe kluson tuner question on Gibson f5
- cleaning sweat spots
- Two Questions
- Tone bars are pushing the top out!
- luthier in sc
- newbie glue questions
- Carbon fiber questions
- mando setup in maine?
- measuring decibels and sustain?
- Figured maple
- MicroMesh on varnish - what to lubricate with?
- interchanging bushings
- looking for parts
- Finger planes
- removing an old fingerboard
- Any Builders in South Carolina?
- Kay Bass Repair Question (no mando Content)