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- How do you line up the holes for your tuner shafts
- Linseed Oil vs Tung
- Washburn M6-SW pick guard mounting issue
- Pick wear through finish and bare wood showing.
- Fret finishing question
- Adding pickguard to flat top mandolin?
- radius braces for induced arch flat top
- No more ebony strap pins???
- Good tuner replacement for Collings MT?
- Vega repair
- hide glue smell?
- Srings for Guitar-to-Mandocello-ish conversion-typ'a-thang
- Ordered custom 5-string electric mandolin, luthier bailed!!!
- Top wear/clear pickguard
- Digital String Action Gauge
- Finish Suggestions
- QRB Finish
- My nut work
- Mandolin Setup in Atlanta, Georgia?
- Installing Grover Sta-Tite Champion friction pegs
- Morris Mandolins : playability comparisons on the market?
- Oil Varnish Final Rub Out
- Old Wood Tops and Backs
- Rob Meldrums set up book
- Rebuilding an ol Strad-O-Lin?
- Lost not the series.
- How can I fix this?
- Randy Wood bridge
- mandolin tops
- Mandolin kit- skip binding?
- Best primer on sharpening
- Bent top Martin style construction
- Apparently bad and searching. Could use some direction please!
- Experimental OM design build
- set up
- What is the purpose of the scroll?
- Do I need a new nut?
- Sorry, not mandolin, but guitar question. Please help
- Finishes
- Major repair- order of re-assembly?
- f holes in a small flat top?
- Intonation?
- Curious about established builders thoughts on this
- Does the Fretboard extension effect the tone significantly
- Singin' the Oil Varnish Blues
- Spare 1910-1930's Banjo Mandolin Machine Head/Tuners
- Striping and refinishing my Loar lm-500
- Cost to strip and refinish a teens A4?
- G string acting strange
- Beech for a finger/fretboard?
- Old Standard Wood
- Andrew Mowry on the cover of American Lutheirie Magazine
- Tonation issue
- No hole mandolin tuners for F5 style
- 2 way trussrod
- Weber Hyalite w/ minor damage?
- Quick Fix for an e string high fret?
- Desert hardwoods
- Mandola Specs
- Tiple Surgery
- Experience with an Adjustable Maple Bridge?
- New tool for the shop- a snowflake
- Gibson A3 arch height?
- Arthritis Special questions on scale length
- Re-attaching loose binding
- voicing "in the white"
- Exporting ebony instrument parts
- Ever wondered where the Swiss Violin makers get their Tonewood?
- Tonewood parameter measurements: Simple methods??
- Warning Banjo!!! Click here with caution.
- How do you handle discoloration in old cracks?
- New Color Contour Software for MAG-ic Probe Electronic Thickness
- Best DIY tools for nut slot adjustments?
- Pickups?
- F-Hole information needed
- "Korina" finish
- How many of you would like to build "pro"
- IV kit blues...
- infernal machines..balky tuners
- Getting A Good Lacquer Finish
- Exoskeletal mandolin
- Plugging headstock holes
- bridge shaping
- Intra-course intonation problem?
- Endpin Pulled Out
- Tailpiece Replacement
- Tuning post not seated correctly
- Comparing varnish and lacquer
- inlay question for the CNC crowd;
- question to the luthiers here about bone nuts;
- AllParts 10-string tuners
- Mandolin Post Set-Up Question
- Who has inspired your work?
- Building a kit: Dakota Mandolin
- Loar 700 finish
- what's the purpose of "points" on F models? what's the idea?
- Nice sounding aluminum guitar
- Buzzing after expensive refret & setup
- D'Aquisto two point mandolin
- Mini Mo help and advice.
- EM-150 truss rod
- My looong F5 project is finally DONE!
- EM-150 wiring diagram
- B&D mandolin banjo
- Weymann Mandolin neck needed
- Kay Kraft Mandolin neck not a Weymann
- A cup of tea and a chat with Steve Gilchrist
- First Mandolin Build questions
- Right handed mando strung left.
- Arches F5 Kit Build Blog
- How not to install a bridge pickup
- Ol Timer Mandolin
- New Atkin Mandolin
- Atkin Mandolin
- Pack em' up good !
- Spool clamps
- Electric mandolin Bridge making tutorial
- Gateway area Luthiers Assembly
- can anyone identify this mandolin?
- Lyon and Healy A mandola plans?
- can someone explain to me this back ?
- Coil Pickups for Mandolin
- Mandolin set up/refret in NY/NJ area
- Nut Lubrication
- Wishnevsky mandocello?
- Inlay Sticker
- Bracing Questions
- Ray Dearstone underwent heart surgery
- The Original Brekke Mandolin Bridge
- Binding Cement
- Double Neck Mandolin and Ukulele
- Twin-spot pickup installation
- Just got a pedestal buffer,lots of questions.
- Building Scrap wood one instrument at a time!
- Will someone explain radiused fingerboards to me?
- "5" string Mando?
- More tonebar angle for more stiffness?
- Plywood repair... no really!
- Free class: acoustics, amp build
- Luthier in Hono?
- Gibson K2 Mandocello Pick Guard & Bracket
- Paint stripping advice sought
- Fretwork on bound fingerboard
- Newson mandolins
- Interesting fret thoughts from PRS
- Tone Difference Solid Top vs. Laminated Top
- Build in Planning - Advice?
- repairing nitrocellulose finish
- Iveroid Fret Board Binding Material help
- Griffith Loar A-5 drawings?
- Lyon and Healy mandolins
- F5 Mandolin Kits
- Question about polishing compound
- Meet the maker luthier interview- Gary Nava
- Newspaper catastropphe avoided!
- How to stop a small creeping (now) back seperation?
- Mandolin stand...respray?
- Does anyone ever remove the "florida"
- Kit builders - how about some pictures?
- drop-filling lacquer
- Review of IV Hide Glue Warming Kit
- String Action Adjustment Record
- Finding a replacement for a vintage bridge
- Ben' Mill: Water powered woodworking tools from 150 years ago
- Older Kluson's
- Octave string options
- cross between a double X and latice bracing
- Kentucky KM-1000 problem
- Resonator builds---remember?
- Optimizing response of tone chamber?
- New Kentucky KM-150 with a little flaw
- Fretted notes out of tune?
- Old tuners
- Spruce on the radio!
- Beginning kit builder - what tools do I need?
- Replacing the head on Banjo Mandolin
- Removing lubricant from gears (Guitar, non-Mando content)
- New kit build, setup
- Richlite fingerboards?
- scratch build advice please
- Pick guard attachment variation
- First mandolin/set up questions
- Upgrade ??
- Cyanoacrylate for wooden bindings.
- Anyone using an ultrasonic thickness gauge?
- Re-fretting
- Intonation
- Making a Flattop bridge
- Unique method of fretboard building?
- That Darn Buzz
- increasing pressure on string raises pitch!? WHAT IS GOING ON?
- Can you sand away dead spots?
- Cell Phone Tuners
- Radiused Fingerboard qurstions
- F hole size
- First two sunbursts.
- Thickness Caliper
- Can an "A" model have an "F" Style neck, why would you want one?
- Anybody seen a mandolin rib clamp like this?
- number of coats of tru oil and buffing questions
- Neck blocks and corner points- what wood
- Luthier named Stavy Deves?
- Has anyone made this digital thickness gauge?
- Palm/Finger Plane
- bandsaw or scroll saw
- First F5 Build
- White Wood for FB?
- Teens Gibson A model binding repair
- what's your favorite varnish brand:(and why?)
- Attempting Restoration of Bohm Waldzither
- Carbon fiber source
- Shellac and aniline dye
- Power Tools
- Tuner button replacement on old mandolin banjo
- Willow
- Canted top mando
- Braces through the kerfing?
- Finally got my bowlback playable
- Bridge slots
- Luthiers in Argentina / Luthiers en Argentina
- Thin backs.
- I'm building my first mandolin
- Experimenting: Mandolin Nut Slots and String Spacing
- refret Gibson A-2 1917
- pickguard materials and mounting
- Odd noise from inside instrument.
- learning to shape tone and playability of inexpensive mandos
- Thomas (Skip) Kelly?
- Gibson neck join - how on earth do you get the thing off?
- Keeping screws on tuning buttons tight
- Schaller Tuner Parts
- difficult/frustrating tasks in your first F build
- Collecting information for my first build
- Wood questions fo rF5 like scratch build
- how to hold an instrument securely for maintenance, setup, etc.?
- Will the next Loar be carbon fiber?
- Tenor mandola question
- Zac Browns arch top guitar
- Tap Tuning
- ebay worry
- Sunburst finish
- Can anything be done to improve a cheap mandolin?
- Fretboard Finish
- Tapastring Removal
- #219, a double neck........
- which Dremel?
- Simmon wood
- Possible neck issue....seeking info
- Repair/identification advice
- Banjola - Short scale Sinker Redwood