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- viola chinrest clamps
- 1st setup
- Source for fret wire with wider tang
- Totally clueless about finishing my mando
- Thomastik strings
- Sealed gear tuner sets-where to buy?
- Adrian Minarovic: Please contact me - need F-5 plans
- Filling Black Walnut with epoxy
- One on one building instruction
- Good luthier in South Germany?
- Sustain--How to build in?
- "popping" the nut
- Thinking about trying to build
- Advice on Cracked Neck
- Testing wood preparation/finish?
- Body Mold
- Art for art's sake...and music's sake
- Lacquer to Varnish
- Buffing lacquer
- Paua Abalone
- Packing a mando to ship- best practices
- Advice on collapsed top
- Advice on Repairing Carl Fischer Bowlback.
- Stainless Steel Frets
- Installing a 1/4" jack
- String height at bridge on a eastman 515?
- Need some help bad .
- Southpaw curse
- Flat Top deflection
- Bridge problem
- Help! Split soundboard!
- belt/disk sander replacement part?
- triport mandolin?
- Tru-Oil, Behlen's Rock Hard, or something else?
- Help in Identifying Mandolin
- String gauges for longer scale?
- Buying watch-key tuners?
- Mold Removal from Mandolin
- Tuning high
- Joe Foley Bouzouki
- Specs for carbon fibre reinforcement
- Tailpiece Length?
- fixing cracks
- distance between strings on 4 string mandolin
- Tips for installing Grover tuners?
- Protecting purfling from wood dye?
- Is wood filler ever appropriate in building?
- Charles J. Horner-Tennessee Folklife Heritage Award
- String Going Sharp
- Vintage mandolin repair ?
- campfire flat top mandolin plans
- Pickguard, crack and trim questions.
- anyone else tried an armrest bevel?
- Newbe mistake #1: the case of a strange buzzing sound.
- complete newb question: lower action
- Old Bowl Back Mandolin
- Paris Swing Lacquer
- HELP I can't get my tail cover off
- Fretboard Maintenance w/o string removal???
- Brazilian r/wood bridge and fretboard
- Dressing fret ends on a finished instrument
- Collapsing mandolin top - revisited
- Methyl Hydrate for Shellac
- Shop Humidity
- Grain dirrection of ebony bridge
- Steve Mason Luthiers and Violin Shop, Lawrence, Kansas
- Reverse Fretboard Cutaway?
- Refret pays huge dividends
- How do you measure relief?
- Distressing an Eastman?
- F-9 refretting question
- Lowering a Fixed Bridge
- Beware of tiny holes in ebony fretboards
- Lacquer thickness
- string spacing
- Fret board extender
- Tung Oil
- Worm holes?
- Bridge Mass
- Tonelli restoration
- New Alessi Tuning Machines!!!
- Visit to Joe Mendels shop
- Support Bridge - Collapsing top ????
- Can u recommend a lutihier
- Novice Builder - advice requested
- Stradolin that won't stay in tune
- Stromberg-Voisinet neck reset
- Fret spacing??
- Collings MT Frets
- e mando free floating top
- Finished my first build!
- First Build, Thanks for all the great info
- Intonation problems - is the nut at fault?
- Finishing products
- 20's Gibson Varnish Finish
- bowlback repair (hack division)
- Mandolin Building & Repair Book????
- Mandolin Finish Question
- Campfire builders...
- New Mandolin/Buzz buzz buzz
- tap tuning w/strobe
- tap tuning/strobe
- Replacing a broken string
- Mandola query
- Mahogany back?
- F.E. Coulter Luthier from 1930's
- Being Stabbed by string ends
- Luthier School
- First Build - In the Works
- tone differerance with stainless steel frets
- Best top wood for an A5 mandolin?
- Restoration info
- Trading Stuff
- Painting on top of Tru Oil?
- Glue seam joint / Re-glue?
- Custom mandolin machines
- electric pickup and piezo bridge......
- Neck re-attachment
- Sinkage - arch top
- Paul Duff F-5 Built For Rebecca Lovell
- Tuners for an A-jr
- Tuning Problem
- Mandolin Gets Slightly Sharp Over Time
- new bone nut for A-9:
- 1915 Gibson A
- Fretboard Fall Away
- redwood topped mandolins - info on it's qualities as a tonewood?
- Hole through the top of a mando for a pickup wire?
- A Padauk Fretboard?
- Noob Alert: Solid Body, Busted Neck, Missing Bridge.
- 1921 Gibson A
- Washburn 215 cogs? (repair)
- Fret wire size ?
- Fret job
- New Loar style tuners from Siminoff
- Relacing Fixed Bridge With Adjustable
- Seeking advice: converting tenor guitar to 8-string
- I like curly maple too, but...
- Can I fix this?
- Buffing the finish?
- Set-ups, It's True What They Say!
- Lost Nut on Pick Gard For Gibson 1988 Fern
- Mandolin top shape/contour????
- New Tuners from Grover
- need some repair around Boulder, Colorado
- Cutting the Peghead to Shape
- sell real neapolitan mandolin
- Listing of reputable mando service location, Richmond, VA
- Eastman 615 tuning problem
- "Silicones" in polish - why the aversion ?.
- Gibson Mandola scale length
- Binding on fingerboard Crumbles
- Replacing plastic buttons on Schallers
- How to remove pick guard on bowlback
- Kentucky Mandolin finish
- Gilchrist fret size
- Phoenix NeoClassical Cracked Top Major Fix?
- Where to get a setup done in Portland,OR?
- non mandolin content/Banjo info
- Stella bowlback - repair?
- Shaving braces with back on
- Does Your Scroll Vibrate
- laminated neck
- salvaged wood
- Finishing the octave mandolins from Don K's workshop
- Mandolin Setup
- new in build
- Any book
- Storage
- restoration help?
- Bolivian Rosewood
- Guyanian(sp) Locust
- Intonation sharp only on A string. Suggestions?
- Anyone Tried Southwestern Juniper/"Cedar"?
- Aria mandolin top repair
- Problem with the bridge
- Where can I get a nut blank cheap, or anyone have one to spare?
- Weber to Gibson fret wire
- Adhering ABS Binding to Ebony
- Bridge set up question
- Finish On Gibson 2004 Master Model
- Replacement tuning button for Gibson Goldrush
- Tuning Machine Mounting
- pearloid
- Super Glue (gasp!)
- i.d. this b#nj@
- Weber Tailpiece
- Harmonic problems
- Martin mandolin plans?
- Madobass Plans?
- RyCooder.
- Rick Turner's "Build A Mando In 4 Days" Class
- Old Kluson Delux tuning machines
- Padding around truss rod???
- Frets in the wrong place: best compromise?
- What marks out a "first rate" setup rather than an OK one?
- Sunbursts and Scrolls!
- The Sullivan Stash
- International Violin Sealer/pore filler
- Building F-3, need some help
- Making Mandocaster brigde cover
- Bridge Problem
- buzz in only one place
- Good Setup in Philadelphia
- White Line at Neck Joint?
- mando repair: Hudson Valley NY?
- setup person in Aus??
- Satinwood
- Lutherie Schools in Texas
- Water-based finishes
- Coberley Mandolins
- Electric Mandolin pickups
- Binding on Soundboard Surface
- True Acoustic Bridge for Ovation Mandolin
- Symposium Builder's Track
- Gilchrist listings
- Restoration vs Value
- Restoration and dealing with old wood dye.
- (Long) Lyon & Healy by Washburn rescued...sort of...
- Kit neck connection options
- Basic Cleaning and Restoration
- What kind of figured wood is this?
- Electric mandolin frets...Narrow or medium?
- Vega Cylinderback Tuners
- Mandolin fretting
- Reshaping a New Gibson Neck (in Tampa Bay, FL area)
- Top seam separating, best course of action to stop cracking
- Fingerboard edges: to finish or not to finish?
- neck, body joint jig
- Modifying Stew-mac tang nippers
- invisible removal or replacement of fretboard?
- Ultem Sheet source?
- Kentucky missing bushings
- Fret Buzz... no, not worry over some gossip!
- Siminoff Luthierie Camp in October 2009 ...?
- Padauk Fretboard Update
- Baglama Saz Building (Bowlback)
- Touching up chipped laquer on headstock before buffing finish
- Different components to improve tone/sound
- IV f5 kits?
- Screw-head broke off - tailpiece
- Waldzither Level 3 Restoration
- Taking back off Harmony Guitar - DIY job?
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing-Question-
- Hand cast tailpieces
- Endpin and bridge pin options
- New Here and Structural Questions
- Tailpiece for Kentucky KM-630
- Position of the gear on tuner installations
- How to get bottom of bridge radius correct?