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- Buffing Systems
- Lefty F-style kit
- recommendations on mandolin construction books?
- Siminoff bridges
- IV kit
- Gibson A-4 re-fret
- F12 - Re-Graduation of the top wood
- Replace tuners
- Bridge for electric mando
- Kalamazoo tuners
- Marlin carving machine
- Kits arrive today
- speed necks?
- Naphtha and tri flow
- finish problem
- breaking "D" string blues
- Finish schedule for busy dads
- Consistant breakage on d strings
- Gone for good?
- Final sand
- A visit to wayne's shop
- Dyeing rosewood fingerboard black?
- Gathright mandolins
- Lyon & healy a's
- Found a great binding bender!
- Bending laminated sides
- Back at the crucible
- Bowing neck.......
- Making necks,,,,,,
- Spray shellac first coat
- Warped f5 pickguard
- Joining top plates
- Long shaft forstner bit
- Top and back shaping (planes?)
- Rosette materials
- Dave cohen
- Old mandolin tail piece
- April workshop
- Cutting string slots in fossil ivory
- Bent bridge pins?
- Dc mando luthiers/repairmen?
- Tuners for slot head mandolins
- Tail piece for mando banjo
- Crowning frets without the fret crowning files
- Building up one too deep string nut groove
- Copy carver
- Not a builder just curious?
- Aw heck, another great forum......
- Scooped fingerboard extensions
- D course way out of tune up the neck
- Grain orientation in neck
- Routing for binding
- The right tools for the job
- Deep inletting for binding
- Varnish on blacktop
- Tuners for slotted headstock
- American music co. mandolin
- Sagging saddle
- Bent laminated sides
- Fret boards + final set up
- Black diamond strings
- Set-up in seattle
- No hole on face?
- Bench vise
- "the golden spruce"
- Collings tailpiece
- Bracing....
- Getting the kids involved
- Ebony dust
- Fretboard dimples
- Replacing tuners
- Gauze f-holes?
- Backs and grain
- Mandola plans?
- Restoring old tools
- Kentucky 675s, sound
- What kind of glue for tuner button?
- 1957 gibson "a"
- Radius options
- Double bound mandolin top
- Gibson
- Will this quailfy as
- 1961 martin 2-15
- Installing triple binding on the iv f5 kit
- New "e" string using ordinary music wire
- Intonating your mandolin
- Octave mandolin bridge
- Help id this finish
- Mounting a pickup
- Double course - one string
- Sanding the neck
- Question for big joe
- April workshop
- April workshop
- Brass nuts
- Rick turner @ gryphon, 11/04/06
- Leather for cauls
- Carving englemann
- Mandola bridge string spacing
- My first f-style
- Nuts: bone vs plastic
- Flatiron tailpiece replacement needed
- New paper
- Randy wood
- 1916 gibson a jr
- Noob question
- Wood bridge material
- Truss rod?
- Douglas fir
- Eastman nut height
- Safe-t-planer
- Were there handel violin pegs?
- Matching a color
- Neck reset on f5?
- Cleaning raw s.steel strings with navel gel
- Refinishing a 1920 gibson f-4
- How do you fit x braces?
- Pickguard support
- Poor bridge/top contact
- E strings sliding off the nut
- Question for professional luthiers
- Safest shipping method - help!
- Truss rod questions
- Restoring old kay
- I think my gibson may need a doctor!
- Good repair person
- Pick guard cement
- Fein multimaster
- Wintergrass luthier?
- Labels
- Tired of razor blade scraping of binding!
- Lubrication with powdered graphite
- Best polish
- Churuhuatas
- Peghead veneer
- End pin
- Checking a finish on purpose
- Finish rescue
- Replacing frets
- Mandolin inlays!
- Wet sides
- Englemann vs. sitka
- What finish for me?
- Bad intonation - help!
- Gold brackets for armrest
- Routing soundhole ring
- Varnish comment
- Truss rod repair
- Waverlys
- Fretboard question
- Violin pegs
- Looking 4 a luthier/repair person
- Neck repair
- Rigel mandolin with a high, leaning bridge
- Fitting tone bars
- Tools
- Lumpy top
- Question about 2-point
- Characteristics of padouk as a tonewood
- Tool for plate carving
- Stewmac liquid stain mixed with epoxy?
- Fingerboard thickness
- Neck angle
- Tuning problems....
- Fitting and dressing
- Ordering wood
- New bridge needed
- Looking to design an a model - preferences?
- Hide glue
- Truss rods
- Increasing volume on a good mando
- Rigel pickup troubleshooting
- Old wood
- Lumber redux and stewing
- Octave mando conversion
- Back thickness and role in sound
- Soundboard arch height.
- Aaaaaaacckk!
- New Millennium Acoustic Design (NewMAD)
- Peg tuners on a uke?
- Need parts for s.s. stewart mandolin banjo
- Ivoroid binding sources
- A2 or a3
- Cedar tops
- Set up
- Stew mac videos - thoughts?
- 2 gillys in the classifieds today
- Octave mando scale length?
- F-hole cutting
- Is it worth it?
- Set-up recommendations in nashville?
- My trilogy will soon be complete
- Plastic for cutting templates
- Wayne henderson on prairie home companion
- Harmony tailpiece
- Washburn bowl back fretboard binding coming off.
- Bridge location on f5
- "ol' stinky"
- So i know this guy with some beams
- Cigar box mandolin family instrument?
- Odd scale length
- Buzz........
- The mandolin that refuses
- Mandolin bridge
- For ken wise...
- Carving duplicator
- Binding masking tape magic
- Lacquer spraying trouble
- Removeing lacquer over spray
- Soundhole advice
- Laminated body blocks
- Story on string instrument design
- Grover ebony knobs
- Gibson goldrush
- Still no luck tuning!
- CBOM sound holes?
- Strange harmonic
- Bracing patterns
- Sorta new to mandolin repair, need some help
- Vending at super grass
- I am remiss in reporting...
- Warped neck?
- Bass/cello bow construction
- Dovetail stuff
- Aargh! i cracked my top!
- Homemade caliper
- String instrument designs by.....pixar
- Hump in 15th fret area.
- Sealing wood binding prior to staining
- Removing binding
- 3-point plans
- Hide glue - glue sticks?
- Solid vs. cutout bridge base
- Trimming ivoroid binding. how?
- Radiused fretboard
- A little help w/ some info, regarding
- Cocobolo binding
- Tight bond ii
- D'angelico
- Help with an old buzzin' gibson
- Daniel smith bridges
- Buffer
- De-glue goo
- Looking for a luthier to do a building class
- Tailpiece question
- Scrapers
- Buffalo horn
- Stabilizing celluloid bindings
- Nickel and stainless tailpieces
- Importance of climate control