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- Fixing brace through f hole
- Using fiber binding.
- neck and extension leveling
- fretboard gluing trick
- Stting up new mandolin
- Dyes and fillers
- Octave strings on a mandolin
- Virzi Out.
- radiused aluminum fingerboard sanding beam
- Replacement tuners for 1962 Gibson A40?
- Bowl back
- Banjolin tuning
- Grover's above and below tuners
- Loar 700 bridge
- Rigel A+deluxe tailpiece break
- Tapping on the bridge (saddle)
- Feedback - Using Redwood for a Soundboard - Yes/No?
- 1950 A50 Broken Headstock
- Finish testing
- Kliuson tuners
- red spruce top has streak down middle
- Eye Candy Section - New List Request
- Sandarac + Shellac ?? 1704 mix
- Adjusting my mandolin action
- Bacon Mandolin...anyone know what type of neck joint these have?
- A-jr. Pickgaurd Repair
- scale length question - no mandolin content
- F style mandocello case?
- Buzz 1st Fret, Going Crazy
- Sunburst, the hard way?
- My first octave mandolin build continues
- Allen tailpiece for a Washburn mandolin?
- Differences in Commercial Slotted Fretboards
- Asian bone nuts and saddles
- Old case-new life
- NOT HAPPY with service after buying new instrument
- Material for nut and bridge
- Helpful hints?
- Zinnser Spray shellac - interesting and curious . . .
- Looking for Bass repair in Santa Fe, NM area
- Hello, I'm new here
- Lacey Act - now problem not just of Gibson or BRW items...
- End button coming out
- question to answer puzzle!
- Tru-Oil dry time?
- Query regarding Personalized CNC service
- Replacing Waverlys with lighter tuners?
- Broen Braceing
- Nut slot spacing
- BW binding
- thoughts and reasons
- Width of bridge saddle where strings lay across
- Strange sympathetic buzz mystery problem
- Mixing furniture powders
- Mandocello string spacing
- removing "french polish?"
- De Meglio type bridge
- My first octave mandolin build complete minus finish
- maple bridge and bone nut
- reverse gear tuning pegs
- Jig/Fixture/Shop-thingy-of-the-Month redux
- French polish and dyes
- Needing an end pin
- tonewood.ca
- Chinn's First Mandolin Build
- Solid Bridge with Integral Pickup
- Schaller Tuners
- Gibson neck joint question
- My IV (mostly) finished.
- Here is what I am thinking
- Who makes a good modern A5 template?
- Stupid truss rod
- Neck stiffness and string responsiveness.
- "Gateway Area Luthiers" 2nd Annual Gathering and Show
- Out of Tune
- The Travelling Luthier
- Repairing old solid wood Kay A-style
- Pics of getting started
- 1922 fret replacement
- wide spaced F5 tuners?
- Red spruce + euro maple?
- Nut slot problem
- New Low Tuned Mando Design (Free plan available)
- Bridge alignment
- Guitar Shaped Mandola/Baritone Uke
- Awesome repair video series (joke)
- Carleen Hutchins, Master Luthier
- Best Mando. Bridge
- piezo question
- 1916 Gibson A-3 repair advice
- Builders in Cuba (mandolin, tres, or other)
- 20s Gibson Strap Pin
- A-4 oval
- headstock/neck joint
- Repairing laquer
- Soundboard warping ?
- Resetting Old Gibson A and F necks
- Rim bending jig - query
- Dudenbostel Mandola Project Pictorial
- An Idea For Hybrid Carbon Fiber Wood Construction
- Martin A style mandolin plans for sale
- Value of the Mandolin Cafe forum
- Sources of Custom made insturment parts?
- Loar era L5 / K5 top and back thickness measurements
- Dude shop
- Plugging a jack hole
- Beginning luthier
- Coupling - in layman's terms.
- Tidying up internal wiring?
- Re-fret advice
- Adjusted truss rod and bridge and now intonation moved 3/4" ???
- Bending the truss rod---do you have to heat when making the bend?
- Flat top mandolin close to Kerman mandos
- Recs for mandolin luthier in Southern Oregon
- Luthiers in northern Illinois
- Broken Neck - Advice needed
- When to refret ?
- Tone bars and sound quality
- Acrylic lacqer to seal wood
- Nut removal
- Eastman MD-305 can it be buffed???
- Zeroth fret or nut?
- Nut or bridge...
- Tone bars.........need new ones
- FLATIRON 1994 - Reply re finishing
- Unwanted pickup noise
- Skip Kelley Contact Info, Anyone?
- Simple non-sunburst finishes?
- Piccolo guitar build - youtube series (no mando content)
- Flatiron 1994 refinishing final
- Neck Marginally Off Centre?
- Nitrocellulose top bound, with satin back and sides?
- NY Times story on illegal tone woods
- Fender Mandocaster
- Would you use this back or toss it?
- Prep for french polishing
- Fretboard chop
- String height for 26'irish bouzouki
- Nicholson Super Shear Standard File, for Bone Nut and Saddle Work
- 3 sick mandos needing repair.....
- Somewhat off topic, I grant you
- fret wire
- Bouzouki 26"scale what size strings do i need
- To-day's Mann Mando
- Peening the Barrel Nut to Secure the Truss Rod
- finally got some sound files up
- Which nitro for drop filling
- Looking for a builder!
- Need help finding Canadian mando builder Daunt Lee, Minstrel inst
- Twisted neck or seasonal changes...
- Maple Trees
- Bob Jones - Brooklyn
- Are your tops rounded, peaked, or somewhat flat?
- A string issues
- Grover? Gotoh? Schaller? Golden Age Mandolin Tuners?
- cutting walnut log
- Lets hear it for the humble knife - what do you use yours for?
- I'm a RANK beginner with a problem....
- Spray area
- Should I replace kit components???
- Raising a vintage Gibson fixed bridge
- Low-fret Buzzing on my Rigel Mandolin
- Looking for local Luthier in NW Illinois area......
- New guy question
- The back: parallel or orthogonal grain, and why?
- Tuner replacement and screw hole alignment
- Ultimate binding tape
- "cone sander"
- 1916 Mandola Tuners
- Where to find lahar wood?
- Old Mando Repair/ID Help
- Fret width
- How to age a shiny new tailpiece cover
- String Cleaner on the Tail Piece
- E string twang
- Removing a vintage headstock face plate
- For those who use deflection tuning
- First ever Tenor Guitar kit?
- Spacing Between Pairs at the Saddle
- Collings Factory Mandolin Setup Specs ??
- F4-F5 dimensions
- 1918 Gibson F2 Restoration & the Cafe
- Top Woods
- Voicing information
- Changing neck profile: Tone changes?
- Old Gibson , newbie enthusiist
- Spruce species on Snakeheads
- "Sticky" Neck Issue
- Wood filler color match
- bridge v.s. bridge
- Got a little bit of walnut
- bouzouku, octav mando scale length
- String "Wowing"
- Compensation on 13-7/8" scale length mandolin
- strings and tuning for mandolina?
- How bad are these frets?
- Mid-Missouri Mandolin M-2W needs help
- Fretwire
- More on Chinese Mandolins
- Wipe on poly anyone?
- Chordwood
- No tailpiece?
- Cumberland Acoustics Bridge...........Wow
- f5 tuners?
- Interesting short story on HVLP
- F_Mando_single_coil_resistance
- cleaning up binding joints
- contact cement
- Building plans for a Gibson Mandocello top plate and neck
- Help requested with identifying back wood
- Aging the tuners on "Frank"
- Should I care about this alignment?
- Getting corner points flush with rims
- Tuners for a slotted headstock
- Have questions on modifying my Harmony mandolin
- Elecreic Mandolin Tuning Problems
- Shooting Board Anxiety--Need Some Cafe Counseling
- Mandolin Form/Mold
- Guitar to mandocello conversion
- Electric Mandolin Mass Production
- Maxed out truss rod
- A pair of birdy mandolins I built.
- Bought m'self a '12 Gibson A1 today -- fretboard loose from neck!
- Small increase to an instrument's scale length?
- thickness planing
- Pore filler for open grain wood
- Luthiers working in bowlbacks in the Washington, D.C. area
- Thoughts on Ipe
- Recommendation on new skin for Vega Little Wonder mandolin banjo
- Yet another buzz related thread.
- Inlay to turn a 1918 Gibson A into an A1
- Losing interest WHILE building
- Looking for Steve Livengood Guitar Builder
- Yairi Using Tsunami Pine For Guitars - The Japan Times
- Going BIG! Compared to mandolins . . .
- Interesting article about a Strad
- Med Strings on KM160s
- Very sick Gibson F-5, need insight and/or knowledge.
- Four new children<G>
- Alternative woods for fretboards?
- Mandolin/Banjo
- John Duffey's Duck mandolin
- Scratches on top
- f style mandolin templates
- Nicolo Alessi F5 tuning machines
- Banjo mandolin repair advice
- Hole for tuner bushings
- Vinaccia
- Mandocello conversion project
- Arianna mandocello project