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- mandocello tailpiece?
- Electric Mando
- Any luthiers near the Dallas area?
- top/back graduations
- Bandsaw Blade
- Sanding equipment.
- So Cal tonewoods
- New Alessi tuning machines
- How many strings in a J62 pack?
- flat top vs carved tops
- Support your local luthier!!!!
- Plastic binding: sources, different materials, workability etc.
- Lee Valley block plane
- Inverted recurve, any reason this couldnt be done?
- More truss rod discussion
- Aria m700c small hairline crack at heel, need advice please
- 3 course Bouzouki (also in CBOM)
- builders in northern italy
- Neck Block Grain Direction
- Gibson A3 pickguard fixings
- Noob with Flat Top OM Arch Question
- Passing of John Wynn
- Gibson 1927 blacktop info needed on original finish
- Alder For Blocks
- String changing question
- Set up Luthier in SLC
- Unusual Pick
- neck reset advice!
- More questions regarding Tru-Oil
- vintage mandolin bridge replacement
- Lloyd Loar mandolin tuners
- First time builder
- Tuning machines for guitar shape OM
- Individual tuners for a mandolin?
- Getting those pesky fret ends to line up?
- Using Steam to "Activate" Hot Hide Glue
- sealing the neck
- Water Damage Advice
- getting cover plate off tail piece
- Foil Logo?
- Tone Bar Placement
- StewMac ArmyNavy kit
- changing the tailpiece to Allen TR-2
- Madagascar rosewood
- Bass and Treble Response Adjustments
- wrong grain direction on tone bars
- HH G seam changed to titebond.?
- Laser Carved Custom Name Placement for Mandolin Heads
- Improper intonation and Ebony bridge 'blank'?
- Microwaving Tone Wood
- Gibson early 'teens blonde finish for mandola
- Screwed, part deux
- Has anyone ever tried Bamboo?
- 20" Scale Cigar Box Octave Mando
- Weird sound after string change
- Ktm-sv
- Lamp black
- Great moments in mandolin building history
- Tuning Machine Inquiry
- Half Double back
- really bad setup, LOL
- My Neck Relief Experience
- Repair recommendation in Los Angeles /Orange County /San Diego
- she didn't take my shop!!!
- Needing a Gouge
- Trussrod maxed out...
- No Mando Content: Regarding 'Lectric Guitar Finish by a Newbie
- Fretboard Radius on a Kentucky KM-505?
- Carpathian spruce :
- Tone Bars vs. X-Bracing
- The simple pleasures in building
- Shorter than normal bridges
- Truss Rod retrofit
- New Nut
- Port Orford Cedar as a soundboard
- Need a nut Doctor!
- Jointer Plane
- Replacing EMG Ultrajack on Rigel CT110
- Carpathian vs Engelmann?
- How many times can you reheat hide glue?
- Mandolin Luthiers in Italy?
- Thickness sanding
- Best glue for carbon fibre neck inserts?
- Alternative Designs
- Extra wide binding ledge?
- scooped fingerboard extention
- radiused fingerboards
- help me select a tailpiece
- Headstock taper and scroll thickness
- Loar Neck Set
- Lowering action at the nut
- Has anyone tried anything like integrated tone bars
- Replacing an Allen with a James tp,,how hard?
- safety first
- tonewoods tapped and explained by Luthier Kim Walker
- Almost bought this
- Not -entirely- related...
- newbie with questions...
- custom tuning machine building
- Sawed Off Bowlback
- nut files
- pearwood veneer
- Pistachio Wood
- DIY Doubleneck Electric Mandolin / Guitar
- Redwood Tops
- Newbie needs some help
- peghead angle for slotted peghead
- Walnut
- Whittling Briar
- Davy Stuart - earthquake news
- Hands up if you back-fill your kerfing?
- Out of the loop
- Loar Tonebars
- is partial re-fretting ever an option?
- need help with dovetail routing jig
- New tuners thin head stock
- Restringing in reverse
- Close-outs at Stewmac
- Neck sets
- tap tuning question
- Oil varnish
- Cigar Box Mando Plans
- Need help setting up...HELP!
- Frets on F4
- Pitchy wood
- How would you joint this?
- Arch top verse flat top mandolin
- Recommendations for a neck reset on a Gibson Sam Bush?
- Custom Bending Iron
- Need Advice on String Guages-Electric Mandolin
- "Safe" top thickness to shoot for
- carbon fiber rod sideways?
- A Tree to Die for
- New Black Buttons from Grover
- Am I Screwed?
- HELP,,my mando is sick???
- mcpherson guitars
- Warped back
- Set up in Kew Gardens/Forest Hills NY
- pre slotted fret boards
- Best pickup for under $200.00 for mando
- Better or quality bridge
- The Parsons Mandolins Website
- For those of you who use a Wagner Safe-T-Planer
- Mando set-up in central Ky
- 22'-24' Gibson A Measurements
- Why Amateurs Build?
- Mando top repair -- feasible?
- Dean Clawson fiddle
- Binding and inlay of headstock off the neck
- Zipflex herringbone inlay?
- 100+ year old player piano?
- Is a thickness sander a necessity?
- What to carve with
- Titebond Extend
- Mando - Choice of woods
- Looking for mandolin pickup parts
- Bracing on flat backs?
- Mandolins to repair
- Keith Newell Contact Information
- Ugly Mandolins - Top repair question
- Green shop lights
- Radius or not to radius
- String Buzz problem
- Opinions on "The"
- Bridge height Metric conversion-
- Finish advice
- Luthiers to meet in Chattanooga
- The incredible shrinking pick guard
- Sanding board improvement
- Truss Rod Installation
- Making adjustable bridges.
- glue creep
- Favorite hand tool?
- Mandolin backs, how thin is too thin?
- Strange string issue
- New source for F holes.
- Octave Mandolin Wood
- Kay Restoration Project
- Odd Back of Neck Issue - Ideas re what to do?
- Banjo head
- Refinishing a Flatiron by a Newbie
- Gelas mandolin bridge / jewellers' hand drills
- bent top
- Mandolin sides.
- Tops and backs, wedges. And, profiling top with a router?
- Essential Tool Kit?
- Collings top, back thickness ?
- Set-up guys in Philadelphia
- Gourd Mandolin Tips
- OT - Guitar building oops
- Mandolin Repair Help
- Bone Nut
- Englemann top plate - minimum thickness at edges?
- Sanity Check Regarding Setup Change
- Ebony binding on an F Style?
- Mandolin Finish Preferences: Which is better, matte or gloss?
- Bridge fitting?
- 1928 Regal Octophone
- Re-Fret Questions
- Tuner information for LM-600
- Anyone have experience with the Denker carving shave?
- Binding question
- Binding question
- 5-40 thumbwheels
- Newbie intonation question.
- Bolt on necks?
- KM-150: depression in top from bridge
- Mandolin Banjo Pot
- How do I place the mandolin wedges on the shooting board?
- G and E strings not as loud
- Looking for tuning machines
- To strip and refinish a top...
- U-Beaut Hard Shellac
- F5 Mandolin Blocks Set
- Tasmanain Eucalyptus
- KM-150 Truss Rod - lefthnd thread?
- Air-brush TruOil?
- End Pin, A chance to educate myself.......
- Raising a fixed bridge
- Modifying Tailpieces
- Crazy hand rubbed finish/sunbust question
- whatchamacallet tool
- Removing "Truoil" finish
- volume improvement via brdg replacement
- How to "true up" a plane?
- Wonderful free resource of old woodworking books in pdf format.
- pearloid tuner button?
- I need tips/advise for re-finishing a '23 A-2
- Fingerboard radius
- Behlens Rock Hard varnish
- Strung up new build
- Had a near perfect joint, and learned my first lesson.
- resawing for a back or top plate
- What does hide glue look like after it's absorbed cold water?
- Some Cool Photos From Steve Gilchrist
- Bandolim Questions
- CF Bar in OM Neck?
- How to remove a nut?
- Let me Teach you
- repairing a broken dovetail?
- Mandolin blues -> A call to help me in fixing my mando!
- Repair Mandolin Top Lifting
- Not sure what this is
- Lucci???????
- Repair small scatches in top of mandolin
- Source for used, vintage Gibson parts?
- Recognize this tool?
- 5 MORE Cool Photos From Steve Gilchrist
- Mandolinetta 911