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- Kalamazoo a model
- Harmonic relationships
- Nut width and string separation
- Winding your own loop ends?
- Varnish inside the box
- Macrostie's tool for adjusting neck height
- Non-mando content, builder info
- F-hole design
- England cherry bomb a model
- England distressed f-model
- Drill bit recommendations for ebony?
- Mandolin armrest bracket
- Passernig mandos
- Strad wood and scienceif you are a lousy violin ma
- A-style from f5 plans
- New theory on stradivarius tonewood
- Flat top mandolins
- Yet another string buzz question. sorry.
- Binding the angle on the headstock
- Flat fret crown normal?
- Stainless steel mando fretwire... does it exist?
- Lesson learned about bridges
- Neck-through body flat-top
- Carbon fiber bridge
- Setting up an om bridge?
- End pin jack installation
- Using aerosol lacquer
- Set up on bass fiddle
- Possible endorsement deal
- Tuners screws
- Patent 2046331
- Top crack
- Top crack (again)
- Process in cutting f holes
- Fretting problems
- Siminoff kit
- Bill monroe's f5
- Not sure where to begin!
- F9 upgrades?
- Grain width on tops
- Change tuners on a vintage mando?
- Set ups
- Neck size and wrist pain
- Table saw as jointer for tops and backs?
- Radius fretboard
- Cumberland acoustic bridge miracle story
- Cedar top graduations
- X - bracing and top graduation
- Neck angle
- Wood defect
- Making a custom case
- Exotic woods
- My iv a-style kit build
- Bosch rotozip
- Scalloped fingerboard
- A9 tuner replacement
- Review of new stewmac nut slotting gauge
- Bowlback separation
- Value of high-quality tuners
- Done it again!
- Question about varnish & spray gun
- Fitting a bridge
- Staining my iv mandolin top
- Octave body depth
- Stripey, blotchy iv top
- Finger planes
- Slots in bridge
- Hide glue color
- Laminate tops
- Grovers with ebony buttons
- Rookie staining error
- Hollowing the backplate
- Binding
- Cracked mid missouri
- Just laminated my binding and it's messy
- Rx for cheap tuners
- Romanian manodlin tuners replacemant ?
- Planetary tuners
- Fret kit
- Converting g-tone banjo
- Finger plane repair
- '73 pag custom
- Gibson instrument building
- How often do profession players refret their mando
- Rounding binding edges
- Point protectors - before or after routing?
- Poplar necks
- A new bridge
- How many hours?
- Luthiers in boston area?
- Deliberately non-flat fingerboard?
- Cleaning and polishing a well used mandolin
- Gotoh replacement knob/button?
- Custom bandolim
- Bridge change
- Tail plate on 2002 a5-l
- 3rd. stew-mac kit f-5
- Good setup person in northern california
- Thinner bridge
- Any advice on making a fishman- type bridge pickup
- Grounding a dual rail for e-mando
- Gluing plastic to wood
- Sealing a sunburst prior to french polishing
- Very narrow nut.
- Bridge height
- Buzz below nut
- Rough maple stock removal
- Two different sizes of frets
- Eastman question
- Inlay filler
- Geriatric luthiery
- Bridge problem?
- Gibson showcase repair = wizard of oz?
- Luthier in ohio
- Value
- Banjo mandolin head
- Bridge weight
- Cleaning/restoring vintage gibsons
- Raise the action or deal with buzzing?
- Case design
- Table top repair setup?
- Old mando needs tlc
- Best saw for cutting dovetail
- Thinking of larger frets
- Tonerite ( dedamping device)
- Loar graduations
- Gibson l-5 blueprints?
- Ebony
- Original gibson mandolin design
- Headstock scroll breakage.
- Tell us about your re-fret job
- Diy seam repair
- Screws for my knobs?
- Scroll?
- Truss rods (or lack of)
- Changing setup for more attack?
- Brand new capek f-mandolin
- Iv kits
- Looking for bill james
- Adjustable bridges....
- Shellac problem
- Mcintyre feather relocation initiative - help!
- Ged green - luthier manchester uk
- String height , max and minimum
- Weber gallatin
- Collings radius
- Searching?
- Source for original style fretwire.
- Tools you might need
- Spruce laminate supplier
- Mandolin building in 1908
- Saw blades for fretting
- Lifted bridge, treble side...
- Shellac additives
- Pickguard
- Bridge over tone bar
- Moodie mandolin
- Bowlback
- Frets or strings
- Repair in illinois
- Teens f-4 tuner problem
- Insight about action, setup, options, with no rod
- Urgent news
- John dickinson - dickinson mandolins
- Loose eastman tuning knob
- Shop insurance/instrument insurance, etc
- My first iv kit mandolin
- Looking for suggestions on a builder
- Questions you would ask
- Adjusting intonation with string weight
- Which kit?
- Need my neck changed from u shaped to v shape
- Cost of refret
- Shaving tone bars 70s gibson
- Walt kuhlman mandolin builder
- Luthiers in/around indianapolis?
- Need a pickguard
- Lacquer problem!
- Looking for good setup person
- Bridge posts
- End pin issue
- Can this mandolin be saved?
- Toning down gloss finish
- Kerfed lining
- Leftover wood
- Depth of necks
- Sizing attachments
- Effects of smoke on tonewoods
- Grain orientation
- Banjolin
- Width between strings on a mandocello
- X bracing graduations
- Satin finish
- Varnish over french polish
- Problem with mandocello bridge
- Top of mandolin-wood?
- Refinishing a mandolin?
- A model tuners
- Determine top wood
- Graphite neck reinforcement
- Bandolim plans?
- Building the ultimate 10-string?
- Slight intonation problem
- The Strap Hangers on Nudie's Mandolin
- using square tube truss rod
- action
- Distressing an Eastman?
- Converting guitar to mandola
- Humidity and action
- Lowering the action?
- Establishing the neck angle
- intonation problem
- new tenor neck for a Maccaferri
- back "brace" on Gibson/Kazoo mandolins.
- Who is the best builder we've never heard of?
- Monteleone headstock
- Recommendations for packing mandolin for shipping from CA to HI
- Filling voids in maple burl
- Finishing Questions-2 questions
- Bowed neck on Mandolin F-5
- 1923 Snakehead restoration
- Hurricane Ike report
- International Luthiers Supply?
- Looking for recommendations for setup in Upstate NY
- Internal Pickup removal?
- Tuners hard to turn
- I did it...Sanded and spray finished the 29 Jr.A
- Cumpiano book guitar
- good news...Two workshops planned
- Align body and neck
- carbon fiber refret
- Mando redo....
- small nick
- Mandolele
- Final Polish
- Fiber Veneer
- annoying overtone Collings
- good set up work in oklahoma
- Looking for set-up in DC/Baltimore area
- Bridge Thumbwheel questions
- Favorite Links for Tips, Tricks, and Jigs??
- old style fret wire
- How do you mark your bridge?
- Stuck Waverly Knob..
- Neck Reset Project
- What constitutes a "setup"
- Looking for a setup in Central Illinois
- Waldzither mandola
- Adding a strap button
- Setup in the Hampton Roads / Tidewater area