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- Discolored Tuner Knobs
- Who signed my A5?
- Herringbone purfling and getting round points?
- problems staying in tune
- sympathetic vibrations
- IV mandolin kit, build 1
- button options for old Kay Kraft A-style
- Tail piece origins
- James tailpiece problem
- What makes the Larson Brothers Mandolins so good?
- Does induced arch make a difference?
- IV mandolin kit build 2
- hack saw mandolin
- Bracing question
- Guild of American Luthiers Convention/Workshops
- .135" under tailpiece too thin for englemann?
- Building a CBOM (Short-Scale OM)
- String slots in bridge
- differant spruce- variation of tone for tops
- Scooped my fretboard extension.
- Mandolin kit from International Violin Co.?
- Mandocello Conversion starts next week
- Need help fast! Which Randy Wood bridge
- Filling finish gaps & imperfections
- Sitka spruce/grading
- what's causing this?
- My latest project, another (I think) Kay Kraft
- how to make a steamer for neck removal
- Initial setup/intonation on an open hole
- Oh no, glue spot on a headstock-what can i do
- Silakowski contact info
- Cutterhead knives to cut mandolin neck
- Electric Mandolin
- Kerry builds a powered Fret Slotting Gig
- Protecting the Inside of the Mandolin while Staining.
- A little more clarification on top and back plate response?
- Celtic Cross Mandolin
- sunburst staining
- Should I say something?
- Mandolin banjo
- Source for translucent tortoise shell-like picguard
- Fill then add inlay or reverse order?
- Don'tcha just love it when everything works out?
- less than what you pay for :
- Adjusting bridge height, non-adjustable bridge
- Legality of selling salvaged ivory?
- My el-cheapo deflection gauge setup.
- Conversion of a 3/4 size guitar to mandola?
- brace fitting
- Idea for a new Luthier's tool
- Newbie Glue-up Question
- Mandolin on life support
- Resawing green wood
- Stewart MacDonald f5 plates, Yay/Nay?
- Tonal considerations for neck wood?
- Ovation ? Really ?,Yuck! I can't stop myself...
- Source for white or cream tuner buttons with 1/8" hole?
- Ovation again. I'll be nice
- Ovation clamping devices
- i was very brave
- new Nicolo Alessi "leaves"mandolin machines
- Henry O. Studley Rules...
- General question about compensation/intonation on mandolins
- Who's the builder?
- Regal Octofone
- Cutting your own tonewood
- Help - new mando with cracked bridge
- Dave Freshwater
- Mandolin frets???
- Neat New Tool
- Refinishing Tips Sought
- oval vs. round hole
- building a cigar box mandolin
- Lighter parallel band on spruce top ... what's this?
- Adjustable angle mandolin tail pieces?
- slipping tuner
- tuners and buttons
- Thank you Mr. Mowry.
- scooping fretboard extension
- Two Year Mandolin Project Done
- Fretless "mandolin" revisted
- Does Anyone?
- Bridge Placement Question
- Warped (roller coaster) Neck ?
- Sumi Archtop Guitars?
- You Might Want a Pickguard, Armrest and ToneGard If:
- A few questions about a Mandocello conversion
- Woodworker who can't play should build Mandolin?
- Question - Tall Bridge for Stiver Mandolin
- Merlin carving tools
- Spiffy new bridge
- F5 peghead finally bound and inlaid
- Cleaning the fretboard
- Ergo-bodied mandocello?
- F mando kit on eBay...
- Anyone need any Black Walnut logs
- Can you use "wood swell" to your advantage?
- IV Mandolin Kit - Update!
- Don Kawalek's Mandolin building camp
- Tung oil doesn't dry
- 35th Annual Handmade Musical Instrument Exhibit
- Interesting eBay auction for Breedlove kit [about to end]
- Lute soundboard analysis
- How do you bring out the high end tone?
- How To ???
- Tenor Guitar Conversion Candidate
- Anyone know anything about this kit?
- Stewmac's answer if you need .922 spaced tuners
- Mandolin style "F" form
- Mis-matched tuner posts on Grover tuners?
- How to remove cork residue?
- First fret issues
- Has Anyone Built a Cigar Box Mandolin?
- Gluing up dovetail joint with HHG, again.
- Handmade Musical Instruments Show
- Mandolins made of synthetic material
- Scaling up from mandolin to octave mando or bouzouki?
- To X or not to X
- X-bracing
- MacRosti Deflection Jig - free plates?
- Bridge slots - radiused to flat
- Skip Kelley A review
- Strong light for thickness?
- Rubner tuners?
- Watson Bailey Plans?
- Mt Washington Mandolin Co
- Remembering John Zeidler
- Collings MT2 Fret Wire
- Block inlay
- Back plate tuning.
- On cylinder tops and Virzi's
- How does a flatiron "cadet" model compare to other models?
- Two builds - same G issue (strings)
- Interested in scroll head mando kit?
- Carved Headstock?
- I carved down to this
- Neck reshape questions (LM600)
- 2 theaded pins on an adjustable bridge are attached
- F4 design question
- Damaged Bowlback Mandolin: Suggestions?
- Loose tuning head Knob
- building a mandolin from scratch
- Modifying the tone of a vintage oval-holed A model
- Resonator cone replacement on Johnson 998
- New instrument - Electric MandolaOud for Yaki Reuven
- neck joint failure
- oil varnish-foam brush
- Bob Fistori/ Hearts and Hands
- Finish around binding changing?
- Where o Where??
- Big Joe's Shop has moved
- Performance
- Live and learn
- A basket case? What to do now?
- The Loar bridge
- Stain virsus die
- John Hamlett is my hero! Sully resurrected again
- Tailpiece vibrations
- Tuner Restoration Needed
- Stripping a Stradolin...
- Hanging a strap on an A
- Which Allen Tailpiece to get?
- Set ups?
- .012 diameter E string on Stiver Mandolin
- removing finish
- teaching luthiery
- Minor scroll binding mod
- Need some direction on fret size, width, radius or combination!
- Is fine curl more desirable than course curl?
- top thickness
- Can I remove/re-attach tailpiece at home?
- cure time for clear nitro
- books on wood
- Restoration of a bowlback piccolo mandolin
- Fretting a Bound Mandolin Fingerboard
- Too much humidity?
- A simple temporary fix for a buzzing nut....
- Spontaneous tone improvement?
- Mandocello K2 Gibson high action
- Tricone resonator system
- clear lacquer or shellac magic marker?
- Micarta fretboards
- What was your best experience with a luthier? Your worst?
- questions woods ( and for which parts of the mandolin)
- Dying wood
- My recently finished 'Bandola Expandido'
- please help
- Recommendation on Repair Shop (NJ/NY)
- Jescar warning!
- can you have too much figure
- "big " inlays on the back & sound
- Setup Tolerances
- Removing paint from celluloid parts
- Bridge puzzler
- Pagelli eye candy. Inspiring !
- Funny Banjo Repair Site
- Shawnee Creek Woodworks?
- Back and top effect on tone.
- Tweaks to boost the low end?
- GHS A240 ultralight gauge strings
- Help Identifying Wood
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- Nut slots and string gauges
- 19” Scale Nylon Strung Low Tuned (a-e-b-f#) Guitar-bodied Mando
- 1928 Gibson A4, neck issue query
- Fretboard work on Morgan Monroe MMS-3 2003 model
- What are these?
- Gilchrist's new house
- Warped Mandolin , is it feasible to fix?
- Klaus Bender end button
- Advice on placement of bridge
- Advice on removing nut
- Cool breakthrough
- Special Saddle for Wound A-Strings
- Source for Waverlys
- Top deflection with strings up to pitch. Need advice.
- How does a fossilized Ivory bridge affect sound?
- Your First Build
- Great News.
- Finishing Process
- Mandolin Weight?
- Sinimoff Mandolin Kit
- Advice for wanna-be hobby builder?
- Using Pledge on Tone-Gard Rubber
- Binding Repair Question
- 2002 article Mike Kemnitzer - Nugget
- Holey Galahad! A "Religious" Plate Carving Experience!
- Mandolin shim
- Advice on repairing Gibson Mandocello please
- micro pickguard?
- neck stringer/ three piece necks
- Why two strings are better than one.
- Want to start my first build
- Direction of the forces applied to the top from string tension?
- removing fretboard
- Chladni patterns
- Inside the scroll
- Top carving resources for Gibson A-style oval hole
- Wolf note at C/C#.
- Replacing tuning keys.
- A Question About "White" Binding
- Buckhorn Parts
- K1 mandocello arching
- Back thickness for Army-Navy style mandolin
- Vintage Martin guitar pickguard issue
- Building a solid body mandolin
- Finish question
- Uneven gradations.
- Gibson Rosettes
- Live with it, or repair it?