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- sharpening/honing scrapers
- Dressing the frets
- Is there
- slight seperation
- stripping the finish
- Space between bridge and body
- Aspiring mando builder
- case building
- Two-Point Plans
- hex key size for Michael Kelly
- binding troubles
- A New Tailpiece
- Plate Graduation/Thickness plans...
- just starting to build my f style
- chat room?
- how much #to tighten a truss rod
- digitizing (?) my headstock artwork
- IV f Kits
- Flinthills #6 done
- Action up the neck
- IV A-style kit in the white
- Mandolin Luthier in So CA ?
- Medicine Bow Wood Store.
- Saddle Grooves
- Tips/tricks for getting good binding miters
- Oil For Tuner Maintenance
- carving the scroll?
- New shop becoming
- My Aniane #4
- Bending Sides... A lot more fun than I thought!
- Removing difficult pickguard pins...
- peg head veneer
- Varnish
- hot curly hunt
- Rosewood
- A building-related chuckle for you this morning
- F5-G has unwanted harmonic...
- IBMA
- so far, so good
- cutting rabbit for binding....
- stains,,,
- Tailpieces...what is "standard"? and love it
- K-1 Mandocello Questions
- Backpacker Mandolin
- New shop
- Measure Twice, Cut Once
- Mando #1 is finished...
- Interview with Brian Dean
- Homemade picks
- Siminoff binding router tool (pic included)
- I need some mahogony , anyone dealt with
- Bending strap
- Removed back of neck finish
- Wood source for mando tops
- hey,,if you are interested......
- Changing to wound A string
- finger planes
- IV F5 Prototype Progress
- Dust Collection
- Bullrun 6 Reincarnated!
- ooopsss...me too Dennis...
- High pitched tones from headstock
- Wood species for Loar F5L
- Is This Considered Low String Action?
- pickguard and blacktops
- tools for planing wood sides
- Routing binding rabbet and grain direction
- Questions to ask Mando Builder
- Sudden Intonation Probllems
- Tapered Peghead
- A-Model red spruce top kits
- Thickness gauge accuracy
- An Inlay problem
- army-navy mando kits
- tailpiece switchout
- Mandolin Restoration Books?
- side bending machine - fox plans
- Can I make my beater usable again?
- Masking f-holes
- Waverly tuners
- Repairable bowlback?
- Mando tuners online
- tuner knobs
- Black Acacia. Has anyone used it?
- Neck angle
- Luthier in Dallas
- Hairline crack in my rigel
- Fiddle builders/players
- "A" kits built lefty?
- 4 piecetops ?
- Sandpaper- what do you use?
- Bowlback mandolin with cracked top
- Shim material in Neck Joint--Basswood?
- high fret wire = buzz
- bushing around string posts
- tapering fingerboards and making nut
- removing back
- bad fret buzz
- Thinning Ivroid binding strips
- Vega Neck Block
- Eye Candy!
- High Bass?
- Opaque color finish options
- staining,,,almost done,,,
- Jeff/MTshooter
- IV kit recurve
- Length of String Related to
- Curiousity about bowlback construction
- F-4 and F-5 kits available at International Violin
- Need stain/dye color recommendations
- Tuner Button Change
- Downhill slide
- Benchtop or stand alone
- bending wood bindings
- Buidling with only hand tools?
- Pearl Nut?
- Fretboard tapering
- finished it tonight
- Cracked tuner button.
- IV vs. Stew Mac Kits
- A String Tuning
- pillow topping Johnson
- Bracing
- Schaller vs. Grover
- self build
- Wooden Tailpiece Posts
- Drillpress recommendations
- New shop
- Removing shellac
- Pickguard mounting pins installation
- Need help in west central ohio
- Thinning the neck
- crack around a Vega pickguard
- truss rod broken
- a newbie question...
- mando family conversions
- Splinter Repair
- Ted Beringer (1921-2006)
- Surprisingly nice tone,,,,,,
- Altman Mandolin Builder's Clinic
- New inlay design
- Minimum Tools for Setup
- Wood Putty
- IV vs Siminoff kits
- Saddle Slotting
- Curious about X-bracing vs. Tone Bars
- Steamers
- Saddle Slotting
- Plain Jane
- Oval sound hole size?
- Where to buy wood?
- Rosette design program
- mastic recipe
- Rigel G110 Tailpiece Question
- Pearl Cutting Practice
- Cutting pearl
- pearl cutters
- Electric Mandolin Build
- Mandolin Finish
- Reversing tuning key action
- Jacking up the Bridge on the Adjustment Posts
- oval holes?
- IV F-5 kit strung up in the white
- Chisels/Gouges
- Intonation Issues
- Ivoroid vs. celluloid
- Mandolins, a style, flat top
- still tuning problems
- Just to let those of you know
- What's a properly set bridge SUPPOSED to look like
- String Buzzing
- Radial Arm Saw Help Needed!
- where to position a pickup.........
- F5 Kit
- Gibson F-5L F-5 Grover tuners
- Mandolin nuts...
- Pearl Cutting
- varnish blacktop
- Bridge Placement
- Is Oliver Apitius no longer building?
- Engraving---bone and abalone
- Michael Kelly Mandolin
- Who works on Sobell Bouzoukis?
- Recieved wood today
- Reproduction Bridge
- Neck relief
- adjusting the truss rod
- Slipped Neck Joint
- Volume knobs?
- I need a new face
- Bridge stuck to top, removed some finish
- New shop materializing...
- Ebony binding source
- Which router base ?
- muting a mando
- IV F5 kit strung up
- stupid experiment
- bone points
- compensation ?
- Got my IV kit, now what?
- Shop Getting Cold
- What kind of bridge to use?
- Laying out pattern for routing inlay
- I want an red opaque gloss mandolin
- Tuner Question
- Science happens
- Pics of Mando #2 (IV kit)
- perhaps not enough arch in top
- Bowing necks
- Re-gluing fixed bridge
- did a mando rework
- Inlay Bits
- Dry transfer logo sheet
- Dischord
- Legos
- Jason Harshbarger
- Oval Hole IV Kit
- stupid question probably but......
- bridges,,,,
- laquer bubbling up
- Please help searching for Builder / Maker
- electric bridges
- Cabinet Scrapers
- Anyone know where to get this heating iron?
- Finally got #2 done
- Adjustable vs. non adjustable bridges
- Fingerboard radius
- Finished my Binding Thickness Sander!
- Sound Post and Bass Bar
- flying with your instrument
- Staining/Varnishing/finishing Headstock
- Kay neck construction
- Builder - Neal Dean
- Hardwood tuner buttons
- F-holes and air resonance
- How flat the flat top?
- F-5 Investment?
- dovetail jigs?
- Got milk?
- I am ready to begin
- Hand saw for plate outline
- Not That I Didn't Admire You Guys Before
- Outside tuning
- Thinning the laquer finish on a mandolin
- Repair Perfling / Inlay
- cleaning
- Air Compressor Size/Type
- Waiting for my Buffer
- Gibson "A" model
- Flat Back Carved Top Mando