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- Curtate cycloid plate carving tutorial
- The Model Luthier
- Strings resonating when picking the E...
- Grommets anyone?
- Repaired vintage case for a bowl-back mandolin
- Top Thickness for Oval F4/5 hybrid
- Bridge feet sticking to mandolin top
- my new mandolin (need setup advice)
- Cutting out the soundboard
- Mandolin repair person within days drive of Miami
- Polishing Plastic Pickguard
- Some simple fixes for tail string buz & intonation issues
- Finally finished GBOM
- Hide glue question
- A and D strings won't stay in tune together
- anyone used ferric chloride to loosen tuners?
- A's and F's
- Luthier in Montgomery, Alabama?
- How close can you put strings together?
- Gibson A-40, A-50 back brace question
- Wood?
- guita to bouzouki build
- Abalone or pearl truss rod covers
- Cryogenic fret wire
- whither a laminate neck??
- H5 Mandola pickguard
- Banjo Mandolin Project (beginning)
- Reducing neck size
- Inlay cutting service
- Gold Tone Finish Question
- Mandolin makers exhibition
- Mandolin from scratch has issues
- Poly touch up NMC
- Carbon Fiber rods
- An experiment in using vinyl templates for mandolin parts.
- Deflection measurements Top vs Back
- Recommendation on a luthier in the Hudson Valley
- What strings do you put on the instruments you make?
- Brown mandolin
- What are best tuners?
- Question on aesthetics
- fix caved top
- New Northern Flyer
- Found this on eBay
- EM-150 truss rod replacement cost
- Tortoise side dots
- burnt finish on Tenor Guitar
- A weird buzz?
- RIP Leroy K. Beal (MandolinCafe member "Leroy")
- String spacing Nut vs. bridge
- Thank you to Rob Meldrum!
- jig for cutting neck mortise
- building rim parts
- Superglueing Frets
- Nuttin' but problems*
- edge joining
- Multi-Material Nut?
- Proposed Ivory Ban, public comment deadline is March 17th.
- Southwest Desert Woods
- How thick neck should be to cosidered thick :)
- finish references
- Tuner Button Woes
- Andrew Mowry Facebook Page
- String Clinic & Bluegrass Jam - Friday 3/21/14 (South Hadley)
- a easy home made string winder
- Playing a tree's growth
- Master jig curve offset distance?
- Hide Glue Center Seam
- To remove finish on a neck(and slightly reshape), what do you use
- Peg head overlay replacement
- Guitar Physics-utube video
- making the back thinner
- Mandolin from scratch questions
- Mandolin setup in Chicago area?
- Uneven rib thickness
- Neck Straightening
- New fret buzz
- clamping conundrum
- masking binding and purfling before staining
- Availability of bridge saddle segments of teens Gibson
- Help out a new builder (little mandolin;lots of building)
- How to create a mirror like lacquer finish
- Glue for Center Seam Crack
- Mahogany- to fill or not to fill
- Mandolin setup/luthiers in Lafayette, IN area?
- I made a Bender
- Working with forms
- a strings in tune but have different tones to my ear
- Kiln dried wood source?
- Compensated Bridge Saddle
- Allen tailpiece installation
- Removing MOP inaly (non-destructive)
- How high is too high at the nut?
- Luthiers Mercantile International -- Contact adhesive
- Nut slot depth- questioning assumptions
- Removing Gibson Pick Guard
- Attaching an Abbreviated Pickguard to an F5?
- Strung it up today.
- Banjolin, Mando Banjo from Barcelona.
- Repair missing and damaged case fabric
- Any reliable mandolin repair techs near Gainesville, Florida?
- Has anyone ever used createx airbrush paint successfully?
- French finish on existing finish
- String installation
- Loose tuner bushings
- Forming parts for rims
- Gateway Area Luthier's Assembly
- How do you remove that metal seal?
- Fret Wear
- Sanding off material safely
- A question about F5 Head angle
- Unusual Pickguard Materials
- Tuning machine problems (follow up)
- Frets question.
- Set-up work, northern California?
- Mando crack repair
- Tips on giving a gentle relic on varnish ?
- sanding the bottom of a bridge
- 1918 Gibson A - to restore or not
- how to remove superglue spot pm the sound board ?
- Tuner Buttons
- Help!
- 1985 Flatiron A5 Artist Woes
- Neck on a 2001 Gibson F-9, bolt or dovetail?
- Paging Keith Newell...
- strange experience
- Octave Manodlin Truss Rods
- fret slot depth
- Kentucky KM-675 Set Up Questions
- Ever wish you'd just said no
- Ebony
- Tonewood
- Dovetail question
- Kit Builder Question
- Some C.F. questions
- A cautionary tale
- Worrying about my saddle tilting forward
- Florida Scoop ?
- Kentucky cracked neck heel help.
- LSR or Steinberger Gearless Tuners: Workable for a Mando?
- 2 gathright mandolins
- ebony or bone for nut & saddle ?
- 84' Flatiron - A5-1 Needs setup work and thinking of upgrades
- Thining my finsh on my LM600
- Vicious little things
- New Jig finished.
- Gluing Top/Back with HHG
- Building with a bolt on neck
- guitar rosette
- New job, new opportunities
- E string buzz
- Building mandolins with apps.
- How Packard Builds a Body (NMC)
- Homemade carbon fiber mandolin
- Less Durable Over More durable ?? Makes no Sense to Me !
- Im still around
- Tru-oil over Spar Varnish ?
- Gibson "Monroe" model F-5s - 200 of 'em
- shrunken plate
- HHG or Titebond to glue head veneer to head stock ?
- 1915 Gibson A - send to gibson for repairs, or get it done local?
- Headstock inlay
- cleaning old titebond from open seam
- F-Style Tuner Identification Help Please
- Pratt & Lambert 38 varnish
- Looking for new way to outline inlays.
- Close to finishing that Guitar Body Octave Mandolin
- Can anyone decipher what my A string problem might be?
- Dropping tuning a tone, string gauge & effect?
- Morris Mandolin
- Neck torque
- Increase String Height at 1st Fret?
- what will i need to make a playable cigar box octave mandolin?
- replicating the white-top Gibson?
- Weird string issue on an octave.
- I got a twang that I don't want
- For those who have removed a top board for repair..........
- Optimizing the design and materials for a string gauge
- LM400 E string volume
- Broken tuner gear
- Any recent photos of mandolins in progress?
- pickguard templates
- Non-mandolin: converting an old dreadnought for lap playing?
- the new carbon mandolin which I have just homemade manufactured
- Octave Mandolin and Mandocello Hardware
- converting six string to Frankenmando
- Oval Hole Mandolin Kits
- If you were young, and just starting to hit your stride
- Planing wood
- Wood top banjo advice please.
- A and E strings too deep in the saddle
- News Flash: Good Customer Service (no, really, I.S.Y.N.!)
- Violin gear tuning machines?
- Going blond
- Mandola neck: 17" scale or mahogany
- Newly Born Instruments.
- Home made Commodium type mando?
- Cut binding channel of the plates before gluing.
- Guitar Bodied Octave M-- ... uh, Mandola
- Instrument building books
- Mandolin weight.
- F hole flat top
- Partly finished quality F5 value.
- Tuner gear
- Morris Mandolins: octaves or mandolas?
- Vintage A4 - glue question
- Pin Bridge Problems
- Ronroco/charango luthiers?
- clear plastic templates.
- Book Matching?
- Cast Tailpiece?
- Blueridge BR40T tenor guitar construction question
- That pesky A string
- Scale Length differences
- Bowl back mandolin strings
- How aniline, Colortone, and hardware store woodstains different?
- Radius fretboards
- Removing headstock veneer
- Fret job, bound fingerboard
- $3.99 tuner
- Mandolin Case
- epoxy and plastic binding
- Replacement Bar Frets for Lyon and Healy
- Loar LM-500 Refinish
- newbie here question on weber peg head veneer
- Jonathan McClanahan restoration of Lyon & Healy parlor guitar
- Wood binding?
- Small frets and tone
- So is there a bass and treble side or not?
- Body size vs scale length
- Adjustable Truss Rod in Long Scale Instruments
- Fretboard dot inlaying
- Curious about bridge height, break angle and string gauge
- Mandolin Repair Clearwater Florida
- Dang cool Bari Uke to mando conversion !
- Mandolinetto project
- tenor guitar restoration
- Buzz at D string 5th fret - only!
- Need a repair recommendation in central NJ
- Binding the body before attaching the neck
- Building a guilele
- Question about thickness for an englemann spruce top...
- Silent guitar build
- Gotoh Stealth tuners
- Building plans off by 1/8"
- Chinese two way truss rods as sold on ebay
- How to stiffen the top for less break angle.
- Flat frets and playability
- Help with arch top guitar conversion.
- Table saw