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- Repair First or Clean First?
- Finish Flaw?
- Rigel cable problem
- Setup & Neck Profile Kentucky Mandolin
- Blisters in finish above tortoise binding on 2011 MT
- Floating bridge on flat top tenor guitar
- Do you test string before applying finish?
- F style tuners on a new build...
- Lyon and Healy Mandolin Banjo Repair Advice
- Scooped fretboard ext.
- Help for a sagging saddle.
- Mosaic inlays
- Crack prevention and sudden low humidity
- Tonal difference between full contact or two-footed bridge
- Saga AM-10 Build Thread
- Vintage Waverly tuners, string post height
- Your thoughts appreciated?
- Neck shaping tools
- fixing a few scratches
- Planing Wood at a Shop
- The Fretted Frog
- Bridge splintered thoughts on replacement?
- 2nd F style Mandolin build
- Savannah SF-200 Refinish
- A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
- Carbon Fiber D tube
- IV Mk 7 F style kit?
- back plate binding: hardwood, plastic, or nothing
- david hynds
- definitions?
- mandola measurements
- Need an F-5 Point repair
- How many projects do you work on at once?
- Speed Neck on a Guitar?
- Headstock Binding
- Words of wisdom from Bob Bennedetto
- New Mandolin, modern design
- Thinning the clear coat on a km 150
- Red Spruce Quality?
- I need some advice about woods
- Wood for neck blocks
- Northfield Mandolins Dealer in Louisville, KY? Bluegrass Mandolin
- chipped finish on Eastman 515
- New blog for luthiers, please take a look
- Broken Neck Mandolin Repair
- Warped top on Harmony guitar.
- I rescued this charming Stridente via Antonio 22
- Oxidizing Chrome parts
- What to do with the neck
- Tuners question...
- Carbon Fiber Experiment
- Finish on '95 Flatiron
- Pearl nut orientation?
- Source for Black Buttons
- Fix or replace
- Sharpening (Burnishing) Scrapers
- Terz guitar
- Neck sizes
- New tuner installation
- Steve Gilchrist interview on TLB
- General iCarver
- Sharpening gouges?
- mandolin production
- Help in installing frets
- Low bridge on old mandolin
- Backwards Tuners
- Backwards Tuners
- Living Tree Music!
- Tailpiece alignment problem - does it matter?
- New shellac based finish.
- Is a re-fret needed?, second opinions?
- Bussman does it again ( for the 526th Time)
- Kiln dried wood: expansion/contraction?
- David Harvey Jubilee
- Low Tuning
- Lacquer
- !st Hand Rubbed Sunbursts
- Irish mandolin luthier
- Body Heat and the Varnished/shellac french polished finish
- I need help with the neck
- Carbon Fiber Experiment
- Steve Gilchrist interview on TLB part II...bit of a problem....
- How do you make a small profile pickguard.
- Neck Profile for A-JR Snakehead
- Mandriola/Trichordia plans
- Jigs and plans for jigs ?
- ID on Vintage Mando
- I sold an Eastman 805?? 850??
- Sympathetic buzz on one note
- EVO Gold Fretwire
- Shout out to Rob Meldrum
- Behlen Rock Hard Varnish
- Hours to Build A and F
- Help with shrunken binding
- Bella Headstock Design
- The neck size
- Red Valley Mandolins
- Gregory mandolins
- Need suggestions for a finish issue...
- Collapsing top
- Found Aspen at Local BigBox Home improvement Store
- Turned a Small Problem into a Big Mistake
- Loar 600
- Need help with Cumberland Bridge
- In the white?
- Somehow a rumor was spread
- Thoughts on intonation issues
- Strap Button Replacement/Repair Advice?
- Robson Tuning Machines
- Peg head Bushing seating
- Help with Gibson Separation
- Question for a speed neck
- Filler?
- Anyone know where I can find mandolin tuning machine replacement
- Flat Top Mandolin Bridge
- General carpentry (jig) question
- Trying to set my instrument up
- Taylor Guitar contact
- Is this spruce?
- Silver Maple
- An interesting hypothetical question...
- Carving Plates - Maple Comparison and Other Stuff.
- HDPE for internal body forms?
- Cast Iron Vise - quick release the old way?
- Tailpiece Solution?
- Smith Creek Plates
- Band Saw
- Luigi Fenga Bowlbak
- Reclaimed Spruce
- bedpan mandolin project.
- Pancake kit with poor neck joint - Opinions & advice appreciated
- Baratone Uke Neck set
- Spruce patch or inlay
- When mandocellos go bang!
- Sunny days to bring out the grain
- Jazz guitar to mandocello or bouzouki conversion...
- Some of my latest builds...
- Epoxy headaches
- X bracing versus conventional bracing F4 top
- Experience is a funny thing
- Knox Gelatin
- Best way to cut the tang off a fret without having a fret nipper
- Any suggestions? Gaboon Ebony Source
- Your best tip?
- The neck's contribution to tone quality
- Jacobson Genius!
- Peghead Veneer Separation??
- Siminoff Book
- lacquer overspray
- Why black lacquer on peg head back?
- Voicing a Mandolin ?
- Mandolin Set up near Morgantown, WV
- LMI / Stew Mac Binding tape
- "Bunched" top
- radiused fretboard: compound vs straight
- Perverse desire to have an ugly instrument
- Setting up a new bridge
- TLB and Steve Gilchrist interview part 3
- Tailpiece Troubles Terminated
- dovetail neck reset
- Removing old Grover friction tuners (No Mando)
- Gibson replica pickguards
- A bit of woody video fun.
- Most reliable way to isolate the helmholtz?
- Any other builders run into this???
- Two piece back slab cut?
- Recommendation for a mandolin repairer in London UK?
- Wood "MRI"
- wood dust allergy
- Weber Aspen Tailpiece problem
- What would you really like to know?
- RC Tonewoods
- Ibex 10mm finger plane problem
- Baking Soda wood aging vid
- What to look for in a HVLP sprayer
- Looking forward to Condino/Mowry mandolin voicing talk at GAL2014
- Baroque mandolin or mandore ?
- Band saw problem
- A "speed neck" that's not so obvious?
- Revarnishing the top
- Any function to recurve
- Reliable Luthier for Florida Scoop in the DC area?
- Easiest thing to stop strings/tailpiece rattle....?
- Missed the mark when cutting a Fret Slot
- Gerald Anderson Mandolins
- Finger planes
- Tuning Machine Problem
- Saz maker
- origin of super glue
- carbon fiber neck reinforcement
- Roasted Maple?
- Hide Glue
- 1940 Gibson A-00 in serious trouble
- Building an F style mandolin inside or outside mold.
- Belt/disc sander or spindle sander
- Mountain tuning on 1924 A Jr.
- Shiraki mandolin
- Ready to Go.
- Red spruce top
- Cocoboilo
- The neck
- New Mexico Engelmann vs. Wyoming Engelmann
- New F5 Build
- Fretboard issue
- Hide glue; different grades?
- Shop Organization--wood
- Crack between the neck and headstock
- Fitting a bridge on a violin vs. on a mandolin; sandpaper angst
- my new OM form
- Inside Sobell's workshop
- Newbie Band Saw Question
- 5 tuners machine head
- The GAL Convention
- Neoprene clamping cauls
- Validity issues on some plans, please help
- Mandolin bridge leaning towards neck, is this normal?
- What's your latest project about?
- carbon mandolin
- Shop vacuums
- Walnut fretboards
- My new mando has a buzz, but it's in good company
- Neck orientation.
- My first mandolin build.
- Neck Geometry Calculator, revisited
- What can I do about this gouge?
- Casting tailpieces
- I have a couple of dull notes.
- stumbled across this treatise on bridgemaking...
- string spread at bridge
- Possible Don Kawalek mandola project
- Best Fix for my Batwing?
- Reliable Luthier in the Morgantown, WV are for a Florida Scoop?
- Fixing a case handle
- busted braces
- Sound hole size
- CNC Machining of Mandolin Top
- Kentucky KM 171 neck crack
- Washburn M1SV buzzing
- How do you come up with a new shape?
- Chinese bowlback - what type of wood is this
- Om #3
- Fret buzz
- Binding router jig
- Side sound Ports
- Bigfoot Cedar Bridge to Prevent Caving- Flat Top Octave Mandolin
- Mandola bridge question
- Need a part!
- remove back or not?
- Bending highly figured maple
- Dye before or after pore filler