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- Fretwire tang problem
- Boneafone Freakin-A style mandolin build
- electric mandolin build
- Bowed Neck
- SAGA Kit Tailpiece
- Real Mandolin Repair Pros
- Aaaaah ! -= That's better.
- Tuning gears for Johnson MF-100???
- Spraying bursts
- Maple
- will steamed wood return to it's previous size?
- cracked top - when do you throw in the towel
- Moon guitars & mandolins
- Back accent strip
- Buffing wheels
- Video of my "new" 1940 Vega mandocello
- Broke my mandolin :( How bad is it and what should I do?
- How to repair this broken head stock ?
- Stew Mac Campfire Neck Joint
- Silicon Heating Blankets for Luthiery
- Kits question
- Broken Screw in Headstock
- Neck fit help
- Strings for Saga E-Mando? Tried anything different?
- Nut setup
- Trimming the neck...
- Buy or Build a mandola case (interior)?
- Fretboard may be too thin
- Most dreaded repair work?
- action & tone
- Replacing tuners
- F5 binding tip:
- Humidifying a Bandolim
- Unusual build request
- bone or horn tuner knobs?
- Bohm Waldzither "Rebuild"
- Recurve--All the Way Around the Top?
- Come have fun and learn
- Silly newbie question
- should I cut this fretboard ?
- Scooping out the extended fret board
- My sinking top
- Terrible sounding E strings
- Wiping varnish smoothness?
- Bakersville, Burnsville and/or Lake Lure North Carolina?
- Neck Reset on a Montana Gibson F-5
- Best Maple for necks
- choosing Mahogany
- Am i overthinking this (to build or not to build)
- Local builder has a mandolin for sale with a "bolt on neck".
- Electronic Thickness Gauge - Improved
- Tearout in Maple Back - Too Thin
- Vibrations from James Tailpiece
- crash course in spruce selection
- Red spruce and final adjustments "in the white".
- Offset in location of sound chamber
- cherry wood
- structure question
- Anyone converted an old violin into mandolin?
- Tail Pin falls out! What to do?
- Tone suddenly went south.
- A Violin/Fiddle Question
- Mammoth ivory points
- How did you install a truss rod?
- Lacey Act Amendment HR3210
- Best repair option for cracked top .
- Improving the action
- Building a guitar vs mandolin
- new fretboard, old violin
- Anyway you slice it…but which anyway
- What's the difficulty of building an F-style mandolin
- binding
- Installing a twin SBT pickup system in an oval-holed mandolin
- How to fill gaps in the joint ?
- tuning gear advice needed
- Tuning F Holes
- Uneven String Spacing question
- Need help identifying this type Bridge
- Setting Bridge
- Galax VA Luthier recommendations..??
- Looking for DFX files of mandolins
- Mandolin-Banjo Sounds Rotten
- Re-glueing the fret board
- repairing fingerboard grooves?
- floating fretboard rising one side over the soundhole
- Before and After photo
- Fresh builds: electroMando; pair of mirror image Mandocellectra
- Mandola top thicknessing
- Skip Kelley Mandolin encounter
- old A model end block question
- Clark mandolins
- tone bar alteration
- Forest Stewardship Council Certification
- Tuners for my 28 year old Kentucky Dawg Mandolin.
- Advice wanted for a Reso Mandolin design
- Best price on a James tailpiece ?
- bowl back ribs?
- Mystery Mandolin Potentially 60 to 100 Years Old. Help!
- mowry topo map of top plate
- Top and back tap frequencies on my assembled F5 build
- Luthier in San Francisco?
- New addition to our shop.....
- Pearl Cutting and Dust Collection
- Zero Fret
- Great work, Otter!
- Good grain/pore filler recommendation
- Scaling down Archtop Guitar Plans
- fret markers - how many?
- Climate & grain growth - a question for builders.
- Mandolin Related Project on Donors Choose
- Loar instrument colors
- Is this base stain too yellow?
- Building a Mandolin...
- Keith Newell contact info?
- Contemplating converting a 6-string into a mandocello...
- Duff F5 broken headstock!!!
- Attaching OCTOFONE tailpiece
- (simply) gluing a crack?
- Loar LM 600 VS - looking for tuner button screws
- Building...Yes. Mandolin? No... not yet
- Big leaf maple backs... pretty thick?
- New tuners for my mandolin...
- Marlin carver
- Shaving Down J Bovier "F5 T" Neck
- Compensated Bridges
- F Mandolins in the white...
- Bridge fitting for novice
- Dobro mandolin repair question
- Georgia Luthier
- Weird chladni pattern around 580 Hz.
- Tail piece buzzing
- Purchased Kit listed in Classifieds
- Top repair of Stella bowlback
- Sound hole proportions
- "Blotchy" staining on back of peghead
- Good-wood Chinese mandolin falling apart. Worth fixing???
- I know this is a mandolin forum, but...
- I was given this mandolin, need a bit work
- Neck relief question on new KM630
- installing a bone saddle on Loar 600
- Refretting in the UK
- Cool article on alternative tonewoods
- F style neck heel question
- Michele Maratea Bowlback
- Banjo mandolin and case repairs
- Case repair
- Warped Neck?
- Floating bridge or pin bridge on a Martin kit?
- Gotoh "Stealth" tuners.
- Is This Repairable?
- NMD - my Saga build saga
- Mandolin re-fret in North Carolina
- Final tuning - what do you listen for?
- Mando Project 001
- Covering binding sanding error "black spots"
- Any input on this electric guitar/mandolin kit ?
- Sunburst staining done
- pernambuco as a finish coloring?
- StewMac vs. LMI kits
- Ok, it's looking pretty. Now what?
- S.S.Stewart restored
- Bowlback Repair Pictures, Questions, etc.
- Don Kawalek's Mando/OM Banjo Building Camp
- 6 string ukulele to mandola conversion
- Afterlength...
- binding repair
- srpaying clear hi gloss lacquer on Danish oil finish ?
- Bone and ebony bridges
- Mandolin case innards!
- When can refinishing mandolins make your wife happy?
- How feasible is it to drill a hole in a zither pin?
- Strange setup change on mando in case
- Mandobird VIII - are replacement nuts available?
- southern CT area - seeking a setup for my Poe F
- New build question
- Need Saga AM-10 instructions!
- Setting a nut with hide glue?
- Local Woodworking supply and brand issue.
- Loofier~isum according to duh Padma
- Bridge material
- The greater the neck angle the taller the bridge.
- how to reseat a fret ?
- A Uke, Mando and a 6 stringer.
- How do I remove a superglued bridge?
- Protection of Intellectual Property
- Any interest in a series on my mandovoodoo procedure?
- Inlay questions
- Discussions with my builder...advice please
- Life of a Luthier
- Advice for salvaging my binding channel mess up
- Tres/octave mando
- Conversion Varnish
- German roundbacks
- Alessi Sextet
- Manson triple neck build photos (eye candy)
- Restored Mandolin, 12 fret harmonics and all I learned
- Peg head poster
- Fretboard Ruler App
- Finishing advice?
- Teaching myself by tearing apart a piece of junk
- Finishing Advice II
- Tuning machines... again!
- Eastman 515 Project?
- ready for fretboard
- Laminate woods
- The First of Many?
- French polishing glaze-coat question
- Is my bridge upside down?
- Double neck build
- repair old stradolin or just buy a new mando?
- Oops ... Houston, we have a problem
- oops!
- Sand bags, shot bags, etc.?
- DIY Mandolin Kits: Worth it? Best one?
- Hide Glue
- Has anyone moved the tuners over and shaved a paddle head down
- Carbo fiber tops?
- Bone for mandolin nuts?
- looking for accurate replacement 1920's press-in tuner bushings
- RAS Kits
- How many coats of laquer?!
- First pix of my Saga build
- Bridge & string spacing question
- Mohawk Burn-in stick video
- Cherry Mandolin color suggestions
- Pavlu mandolin
- 60s Hoyer: non-compensating bridge question
- herwiga solist
- Bad Nut?
- Siminoff A5 tuning machines
- Tap tuning on the cheap
- Finishing screw up
- Fretboard binding
- thinning the bridge?
- Looking for a Luthier in the Southeast Kansas area
- How is your shop arranged?
- Anyone make sealed tuning machines?
- tortoise for pickguard
- What to do with a speed neck?
- Pickguard Bracket for A2
- Re-fretted my Gibson with Bigger Wire
- New mando intonation problem
- Warped (dipped?) neck
- Frankensteins Mandolin?
- Gibson mandola peghead angle
- "Singing Wood", a great new video about Rolfe Gerhardt.
- Guitar Bridge Pin Broke
- loose tuner buzz
- KM 1000 cut off fretboard extension ???
- Houston, We Have a Problem II