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- Tone and backwood?
- Neck problem
- Neck shaping !
- Accidental Meet up with my Gibson’s Builder: Allen Jones
- Importance of the "14th fret" when measuring for dovetail?
- Scratch build on an extreme low budget!
- Truss rod for mandocello?
- Lovin the Variety in Tuners These Days
- Neck repair
- What exactly constitutes a "setup"?
- Protecting wood binding from dye
- truss rod cover hole spacing (need to know)
- Question on Gibson oval hole style design
- Great Cafe people
- Bridge Setting
- Basket Case
- Source for pick guard material- Gibson style
- Marking for Accurate Tuner Hole Placement
- Best learning kit/tools?
- E string issue
- Qualified mandolin luthier in Peoria or St. Louis?
- Optimal Humidity
- Bringing up the E string
- construction instruction in the Southeast
- Replace tuners for 1966 Gibson A40
- Suggest a mando repair shop?
- What Tuners would suit my needs?
- How-to keep a neck dovetail true in neck reset
- Bridge placement
- New label or not
- Mandolin luthier in central Illinois?
- Behlens Rock Hard varnish
- Black is Black
- What books for luthiers do you recommend
- Virzi?
- Ed Weber joins Big Joe's Guitarworks
- Kluson Bushing (mid 60's)
- headstock damaged by clip-on tuner
- Finish question
- Dovetail joint and neck alignment - why can't you do this?
- Where can I get a bridge?
- Converting a Ukulele to Mandolin tuning ?
- Installing frets in a radiused fingerboard
- Mandolin Maker
- Japanese milled tooth files
- Gibson A tonal quality of soundboard and back.
- Gluing on wings
- Collings MT Tuners
- Tuner Replacement on old Stadium Mandolin
- inlay filler that doesn't shrink too much?
- Thinking of carbon fiber truss rod - tips, pointers, advice?
- replacing a bridge-two techniques for bridge foot fitting
- Too wet and windy to glue
- Best time of year to build?
- Neck Block Crack
- Gibson AOO mandolin (1934)
- Hand cutting peghead binding slot (where needed)?
- Sign of unstable wood for neck?
- McIntyre MT-100 Transducer Disc re-glue.
- Pin Router
- pinky wear
- 1906 Gibson A tailpiece problem/information wanted
- My cheap truss rod cutting jig for router.
- Emando; Minimum Distance Between Controls, etc.
- One of the Cafe's own..
- Help for sunken top?
- Tuning machines from the workshop of Nicolo Alessi
- Cold Temps.
- mandolin tailpiece rib has bulged from maple back
- Can I get a primer on hard/soft maple?
- Another string buzz problem
- Source for bar fret wire?
- F5 Peghead Binding Slot Oops
- Cool wood trick
- Golden Age Restoration Tuners for A-style Mandolin , who has used
- Saga-AM 10 mandolin kit
- Total Newbie builds Don Kawalek OM Kit
- Use Kiwi black dye for ebony peghead?
- Best strap button location for A model Mando
- source for side materials
- Stinky case
- What tuners are these?
- Softening old .070 tort binding?
- Thin ebony shims ok for dovetail?
- Shoring Up a Serious Cave-in!
- One more question before I glue up my dovetail joint.
- bending bloodwood binding?
- Looking to attempt a Mandocellocaster
- Hide Glue and Varnish?
- How can I reproduce the Gibson Pumpkin finish
- HOW long to actually complete a build?
- Weber Abalone and MOP Purfling
- Somebody help!
- Drying green wood for tops
- Where can I buy a Fox Universal Bender?
- Need some feedback on back of peghead/neck shape.
- Effect of body size?
- Binding the fretboard... most tedious part yet.
- Setting the bridge on a mandolin
- LM-600/Cumberland Acoustic Bridge once more...
- Glueing procedure for neck joint.
- Spalted Wood for Back and Sides?
- Another crazy wood question - Camphor Burl back and sides?
- How tall can a tailpiece be?
- Need repair shop in Atlanta area (Marietta)
- top split
- NEW Tuner Buttons
- Truss rod and louder mandolin
- 1895 Benary mandolin needs repair
- Neck set, neck angle, bridge height
- Inlay routing gap - How much is too much?
- Layered binding - glue up first or layer in one at a time?
- labels
- Height of Strings Above Soundboard (NOT Action Height/Fretboard)
- Need help with touch up for Gibson F5G
- Maple fingerboard finishes
- JUNE A5 #34 AND #35 and GUITAR #14 BUILD
- Very interesting supply source
- Repair Work in Upstate New York?
- The Ultimate Mandolin?
- Luthier in Boston Area?
- Mould UNDER a Finish?
- Mandolin Tuning Gears Question
- No mando content, but anyone will find this worth a look !
- My Grandpa's Gibson A-50
- Fungus mandolins?
- dry time for spirit varnish
- Pickguard fell off my Stanley...
- Help with black binding
- Fret Job InProgress
- Is There a Mandolin Building Camp?
- Binding removal help
- French Polish questions
- Tailpiece angle adjustment
- tools for basic fret work
- Kevin Mathers...
- splitting maple
- Stainless Steel Frets.
- Baritone Ukulele -> Octave Mandolin
- Questions: I am pondering f-hole surgery...
- looking for a luthier for a varnish finish repair
- Screwed up big time setting neck.
- A good reason to pack a floating bridge separately...
- String slippage: physics, or does the universe just hate me?
- Rare and sad '31 Rosewood Kay Kraft; MandoCafe to the rescue!
- Getting started in instrument repair?
- Stromberg-Voisinet mandolin repair questions
- Anyone know what happened to John Dickinson/Yonkle?
- Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz -- very annoying
- Joining two back halves that have already been carved.
- Asked question before, try again...
- Wood ID - Pearwood?
- Refinish
- Davy Stuart - earthquake news
- Experimental Bracing
- Does Sanding Close the Grain in wood
- Replacement rosewood saddle source?
- Shipping Newly Purchased Used Mando Directly to a Luthier?
- Is my idea for a custom mandolin-family instrument possible?
- Have you built an instrument that became your main instrument?
- What do you think of my mandocello bracing pattern
- Gotoh Stealth Tuners
- Stagg M50E Tuner Replacement Specs
- Removing a (very) old tuner button
- repair recommendation near Pittsburgh, PA?
- Coated Strings v. String Cleaner Smackdown
- need mandolin setup in vicinity of NH
- Octaphone measurements
- 2011 mass production
- Strap button mystery
- Dealing with sharp fret ends
- timbre of strings
- Clarity of notes
- Cracked
- Harmony H8018S replacement tuners...
- Dirty spots between rim and binding.
- A5 weighs 652 grams. OK?
- Humidity Questions
- Dust Collection Systems
- Gibson Victorian mandolin
- Keeping maple bindings clean?
- Photos of bridge fitting jig.
- Gloss nitro to satin finish,,,is it possible?
- Installing K&K internal?Easy?
- worm over? worm under? opinions please
- Suggestions for a decent spray mask?
- Chip in nitrocellulose finish
- Fret dressing file recommendation
- Newell mandolin fret saw
- Need a little advice on top thicknessing
- Some construction shots GW Zooks
- Sound post...why not in a mando?
- Dovetail router bit recommendations
- Bryan England Mando
- Mid 20s Gibson finish?
- Electric frying pan on a hotplate
- Bridge for a high arch.
- Smith Creek CNC mandola plates?
- Best Replacement Tuners for Martin Model 20 1929
- New Army Navy
- Beautiful kevin mathers l & h repro with top sinkage
- Setup/Tuning question
- fret grief
- headstock veneer and pickguard underway for my Kay Kraft
- Expensive Gibson Repair
- larger frets to smaller traditional frets, a question:
- Ebony
- L & h tuning machines
- Mandola bridge?
- Another Carbon fiber/ kevlar creation
- Making sawdust
- Wood sources?
- Vega deconstruction?
- Gibson Mandolin
- How much stock do you place in the "in the white" sound?
- Can scratches on fretboard binding be removed?
- Mismatched Spruce Tops
- Back thicknesses should be thinner than you'd expect?
- Aging
- New Keith Newell Roger Landes (RL) model 15.5" scale mandolin....
- Fingerboard extension-Lose the screw
- Rover RM75 headstock veneer
- Mahogany top for a "K-5" mandocello
- nut slot burnishing
- lubricating the nut
- "repairman" warning for Los Angeles area
- Does anyone know if Tony Sutherland is still in the lutherie biz?
- Fingerboard inlay and glue-in fret job tutorial
- Soundhole purfling
- Mandocello conversion of Gibson Style O guitar?
- lacquer, varnish or polish - how can 'ya tell?
- 1950 Gibson F12
- Best A-style tuners
- Quick gouge question
- Deflection of top with strings on.
- Do large/tall frets cause tuning problems?
- Dark Era Mando neck joint question
- Finally starting - Neck and Body
- How to cut back sets.
- Wound A
- need to teak a nut:
- my mandocello build
- 23 Snake Head bridge cracked
- Bel #1 in the white.
- Recommendation for refret/repair of 1921 A2
- Forms and Molds, can they work well and look good?
- Cumberland Acoustic Flat-Radiused
- My mandolin came from the builder perfectly set up...
- Great service by Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA
- Newb Builder's Question