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- What can I expect? Thick flexible top plate.
- Fender FM62SCE Cracked F-Hole
- Ballpark estimate to replace binding on an F-5?
- Dan Smith mandolin bridge
- Plans of Brescian mandolin...
- Gilchrist's plate carving jig
- Stradolin Neck Joint
- Double Sticky
- Help with repairing bowlback mandolin
- Sharpening Tools
- glue
- FP blacktop finish
- Can this be repaired?
- New design for vintage-style pickguard.
- Shared Shop Space offered - Europe - Vienna
- Releasing Titebond I - removing fretboard and top
- 80 year old Waverly machine head repair
- Luthiers in Eastern Ontario
- John Sullivan: The Making of 'OM' builder video
- Changing the neck profile on an old Gibson
- Essential Tools
- Almost ready to build
- IV F-mandolin kits
- Tailpiece replacement
- Chris Stanley Owners/players site.
- Not enough bass response
- Buzzing E string nut slots
- Jig-Of-The-Month Club
- Freshwater Instruments close down
- First time build?
- Cane (NMC)
- Mandola plan
- Yamaha FG-180 Guitar Neck Reset, What should it cost??
- pickguard keeps sliding out
- To Cleat or Not to Cleat?
- Collings Mandolin Necks
- Tuner issue, worm not rotating, nervous about self repair!
- Fret buzz/rattle - solutions?
- Paul Beuscher mandolin restoration project
- Leveling Fret Board
- Looking for a tailpiece that doesn't have a tail peg hole
- Case for double point mandolin?
- Hofner restore
- Just got my Siminoff Book in the mail last night
- Collapsing top
- Gibson A-Jr. transverse brace clamped and glued
- Beautiful new Alessi F5 tuning machines
- New here and Pickup info
- suggestions about a neck reset
- Very Thin Sides
- Inexpensive 4 on a plate options?
- Hacklinger gauge and bolt on necks
- Advice Requested About Repairing a Collapsed Top
- Experiences with Mix A5
- magnifying light
- Dave Berryman in the news...
- Problems replacing tailpiece.
- tools list
- hard turning tuners
- Replacement parts for tailpiece and tuning knobs
- 80 year old Waverly machinehead tuneup
- At Long Last! IV Mandolin - Finished!
- View through the sound hole(s)
- Sharp String Phenomenon (or not)?
- The Loar 600 inlay
- removing bow in neck
- Epiphone MM-30S Refinish
- IV kit arrived...
- 5-string tenor guitar?
- Octave Mandolin
- Nice mandolin setup by Steve Kovacic
- 12 strings in a 6 pin bridge?
- two way truss rod question
- Varnish or polish?
- 'Bad' factory models?
- Truss Rod Torque
- Proper way to attach fretboard?
- Anyone use MOP laminate?
- Shellac production video
- Help with split top on stew-mac campfire mandolin
- Bending wood binding?
- Oval Hole vrs F Holes
- Loar tone bars
- Extra wide slotting/fret saws?
- Measuring tone bar height
- Water damage and structural integrity
- Need a fix for an old tuner issue
- Can you re-glue a pickguard?
- Other shaped holes?
- 15th Fret..
- Luthiers in Durham/Chapel Hill NC?
- Cedar Creek Case Trouble...
- So unbelievably jealous.....
- Creating recurve?
- First mandolin build, based on Epiphone Jazz guitar
- A borrowed idea...
- Luthiers in Northeast Pennsylvania???
- Repair Question
- Laminated neck block design issues
- Tuners - Reshaping ends of base plate for aesthetic improvement
- video inspection system
- Bowlback neck angle?
- Need help with emando electronics
- First Project Help
- 3D Printer
- Mounting bracket for abbreviated fingerrest
- fingerboard planing methods?
- The case of Cedar Creek Cases continues.
- Paasche TG-3F SET Air Brush - Anyone used one?
- Pictures of my tools for carving mandolin plates
- Half ivoroid, half ebony f-board binding
- Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- repair crack on the fretboard
- Humidity/Weak G
- Bar fret replacement and repair
- spruce, spruce and more spruce!!
- Violin-Making: As It Was and Is by Ed Heron-Allen
- other body styles
- Allowing for peghead overlay...
- Reusing old pearl inlays?
- Cost of F style?
- Adjusting Ovation mandolin intonation, how ?
- Need Washburn Bowlback Tuners
- Arch Kraft Neck Set Question
- My IV Mando build...
- Shop Tour / Introduction
- correct nut file sizes
- Martin Factory Footage From 1939....
- Question
- To Replace a Top, Must you Remove the Neck?
- Neck Joint Question
- Finish of my new mandolin
- Brazilian rosewood back
- Iron Wood
- Washburn bowlback repair
- Please advise me on bracing plan
- Affordable Effective Thickness Gauge?
- F5 nut thickness?
- Wood between the fingerboard and trussrod
- Armrest hardware?
- What Should I Call It?
- Survey For Builders.
- shape retaining plastic
- An invitation for experienced luthiers to expand their skills
- Need advice on Kentucky KM-340 DIY modification
- Free String Spacing Guide for Mandolin Family Instruments
- Poplar as neck and tailblock
- Campanella Stringed Instruments
- Tuner repair?
- Two Broken Plastic Tuning Knobs
- Another block question: grain
- hard frets
- Loose Ivoroid Binding
- Mystery Yard Sale Find: Tenor Guitar?
- Inside a 1932 National Triolian tenor
- Healdsburg this coming weekend.
- Tuner trouble on '74 F12
- touching up dings-
- Measurements for the Mike Marshall Montleone Mandocello?
- Differences of Spruce species in top use
- Neck angle pre and post string tension
- First project - need some help!
- Maple ID
- Finishing - Them Scroll Areas...
- New Member
- Quick Question: Strings For 19" Scale Length??
- "Billy Bolt" neck repair
- Portable Dust/Air Filtration Systems
- Restringing for Dummies
- Adirondack or Red Spruce
- HHG on peghead veneer
- Siminoff book: Kindle version
- Brass frets to a Höfner mandolin?
- Loar LM520
- Gibson A-1 mandolin neck
- Bottom A String Disnoting
- Sourcing wood online
- IV kit... protecting the top from stain
- Failed glue joint at neck - not sure if it is worth repairing
- Tenor guitar top finish
- Rotary tools
- help Identifying a mandolin
- Bass side fingerboard binding coming off F-2
- IV mandolin kit build 3
- tuners for a slot head Taropatch
- Does one glue down an elevated fretboard to soundboard?
- Banjo 5th string tuning peg
- Preferred Action/setup
- Wrong Way to install new tuners
- Strumstick 101
- MandoDummy needs help
- Some Luthier Suggestions...
- post a picture of your work room/area...where it all happens
- Help cant get post out of 5th string banjo peg
- Help cant get post out of 5th string banjo peg
- Do I need to refit/replace my bridge?
- Heartbroken!
- The Gibson Wood Raid
- Tenor Guitar Restoration Project Complete (Pictures)!
- shop environment
- Jbovier emandos
- Quilted red maple for neck?
- F-STYLE ACOUSTIC MANDOLIN KIT: is it good?
- You Just Don't See Wood Like This Anymore...
- Adding fingerboard
- Cradle for bowlback repair
- Anyone have experience spraying bowlback top?
- best way to fix the bridge ?
- Having problems with new Schaller Tuners...
- repairing a caved it mandolin top
- source for bar fret stock
- Seeking best re-finisher in So Florida
- Ervin Somogyi: The Responsive Guitar- nice video !
- Oscillating spindle sanders
- How much room do you leave at the fretboard edge?
- Wonky E string
- Does anyone offer new, ready-made nuts for the LM400?
- crooked bridge?
- Gibson A Jr Refret
- First build from scratch.
- My first octave mandolin continues
- Bound F holes
- Refinishing my Kentucky Km-630 in a different colour
- Loose tone bar
- tone,volume MAGIC?
- soundboard restoration
- Behlen Master Top Coat Lacquer
- Upright Bass Replacement Top
- Spiffin up an Allen tailpiece.......
- A couple finishing questions
- Mando Banjo parts, anybody?
- armrest hardware
- Schallers to Waverlys
- One piece or two piece tops
- OM plans
- clamps
- How to fix a metal knob?
- K&K Mandolin Twin Placement Idea
- Tuner replacement question
- Electric guitar conversion?
- Binding repair on point
- Looking for an Early A4 pick guard 'attachment' piece
- EVO mandolin fretwire bender
- F-Style Pickguard
- Eva Scow's mandolin
- Kettler Mandolin
- Tenor Guitar Tuner/Tailpiece Recommendations
- Help with set-up
- Gibson army navy bridge
- New Floating Tailpiece