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- Terrco Marlin carving machine
- Mandolin repairs in Phoenix AZ
- Saga Kit Neck
- Selmer style mandola
- Calling on Veterans...
- Extra-long binding for acoustic bass guitar (not mandolin!)
- Bending Wood Bindings--An Alternative Approach-----
- I Need Some Bridge Advise
- Gimp2
- Mandolin Label Placement
- mahogany neck, do you use a pore filler?
- Neck questions
- Fretwork on a Loar F5
- 12th fret vs. Higher?
- Another IV kit question
- National RM-1 bridge problem
- I can't get myself to change strings
- Neck Re-set Issue
- Bending Brazilian Rosewood Side Question
- Regal mandolin top
- repair for cracks on top ?
- Electric Cittern
- Which stainless steel fretwire for mandolin to buy - and where
- Improving volume on A and E strings
- Schallers on an Eastman 315?
- repair light checking
- Please help identify these
- Bracing on A style mandolin...
- Sunken Top....
- treating the fingerboard
- Giving your work away...
- String Spacing Of Courses At The Nut
- Best finish for tone
- Can this cold dry weather we've been having affect my action?
- Bouzouki, cittern, octave mandolin
- Mountain Mahogany fretboards?
- Is this vintage Regal worth fixing?
- My first mandolin arrived today and I have problems
- Refret
- Tailpiece
- Bridge wood??
- Potato Chip Guitar
- sunken top—heal thyself!
- Finding an endorsee?
- CA bridge vs stock bridge
- R. L. Givens #533 Neck Repair - recommendations?
- Cittern nut width
- tuner screw from A2Z
- Calculating/cutting Frets?
- Gibson H2 mods
- My low tech copy carver
- Yet another flood victim - Teens A2 re-build
- re-finishing crack repair to get color matched ?
- Griffith Loar 'F'
- Fish Glue - delicious?
- Folk Music Center?
- Hidersine oil varnish
- Trinity College Octave Mandolin Action
- manufacture your carbon mandoline
- Top bridge dent removal?
- James Bernabe
- 13" A style mandolin
- Who are builders who, consistently, build clean F5s?
- Glue removal question
- "Hobmer" brand mandolin, split seam repair (Goa, India)
- Intonation Problems
- A String Buzz
- Grit Laskin Inlay Class
- resonator mandolin construction
- Cant Glue Saga kit in the Wet
- scalability of plans
- Question about KTM Water Based Finish...
- Change string spacing
- A possibly silly idea, but....
- Ioannis Skoulas
- Collings MT - Top wood grain feature looks like a smudge?
- inly figuring
- 1908 Gibson F4, 3 point.
- How long would it take me?
- Cheaper luthier supplies online?
- question about knots in wood the loar 600
- A tuning fork question
- bending flat sawn guitar sides
- Regraduating Top on Eastman 515?
- Trying out my IV kit
- Palm chisels
- Pocket Mandolin Doug Unger
- Kentucky tail piece off-centered
- Floating bridge on OM
- Refinishing my mandolin's top
- Eastman MD515 from Gianna Violins
- intonation problem
- Kay Kraft sorely in need of help!
- Which tailpiece?
- Replacement tuners on a snakehead?
- Philips Screwdrivers Sets in UK. Sources
- Tuning machine screw problem
- 1950 gibson js 100 hide glue or not?
- Radio Tone mandolin complete overhaul
- Brazilian Cedar.
- Advice on top separating near tail piece
- Fret "tilting" on installation
- turning up to gigs, mandolin in hand...
- String pitch below bridge, do you care?
- Finishing Advice
- Hinges for rectangular mandolin Case
- Clean F holes
- Guitar Part Question
- Uke Project for Christmas gift
- Violin Forensic dot com
- ZEN-ON Japanese Acoustic Guitar
- Shellac and lava from Mount Vesuvius
- Sunken top, tight braces. How big of a problem?
- 12 stings mandolin infos
- Collings OUCH!!
- Binding on the back of a mandolin
- Tiple Doliente
- Bridge crack
- Finish and opening out/ageing gracefully
- F5 Cad files
- Hardanger or Hardingfele (fiddle, no mando content)
- Pava Satin v Pro
- String height at the nut
- YASB - Yet Another Saga Build
- Bowl Back neck issues
- advice please on dye migration from case to finish
- Question on sanding
- Hand-Splitting Maple For Mandolins...
- East German Mandolin -- any plans
- Christmas Ideas
- tuner keys: above or below the gear
- Take the back off?
- How to check for a flat fretboard on a fret level/dress?
- Pickguard re-glue Gibson 1916 Gibson Style U harp guitar
- Remember my post CA bridge vs stock......
- Kentucky KM-150 and bridge
- Help me I am ruining the world supply of Brazilian Rosewood
- 1918 A1 with loose brace
- Where to learn the art of mandolin making?
- Tap Tuning Saga Kit
- Minor screw problem - advice sought!
- finger plane choices
- Strings for a Graupner & Meyer bowlback?
- Enlarging Headstock Holes For New Tuners
- A-12 Fretboard replacement?
- what height do you consider needing new frets after a level/dress
- Replace Broken Mandolin Top Plate
- Is it worth it to sand of factory lacquer to improve sound?
- Extermination worries
- Guitar to OM Conversion Question: Saddle
- Advice on replacing a top
- Make a living building/repairing?
- Back on board!
- Plate carving
- Octave mandolin build
- 1918 gibson A style mandolin back is Separating
- International Violin F style build
- Collings MT2
- National RM-1 neck re-set
- "Ultimate" scrapers
- Stuff like this only happens to me
- Decent budget machine heads?
- French Polish...
- Eastman MD315 Repair Question
- 1/4" Jack Options
- Drill a sound hole in the sides of the mandolin
- Order of operations/scroll
- Fret & fretboard help suggest a luthier
- Gold fretboard markers
- Minor plastic surgery on a 1913 A
- Introduction and help with an F5 Archtop
- makeshift neck/fret markers
- Info on having a partially finished mandolin made.
- Anyone know how I can get a hold of Butch Click?
- More Tap Tuning
- Homemade graphite nut and/or saddle from graphite rupture disk?
- Fret slotting saws - anyone re-sharpen them?
- Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe
- Dudenbostals Photo Gallery
- Headstock treatment for non-inlayer
- Gibson carved top sinkage problem!!!
- preferred distance between each set of strings?
- whats considered one of the better mandolin kits(A style) to buy?
- New Shipping rates
- Beginner Builder Blog
- Mandolin build
- My First Build
- A Style Epi Varnish Experiment. ( w/ Pics)
- finish crack fix?
- Beginner Mandolinist... Nut problems...
- Epiphone mando bando
- Removing rust from a case hinge
- Dovetail Cleanup w/ CNC
- Tuning machines
- How to be successful with Blondes
- Safe finish?
- Headblock/mold
- curly firewood... again
- Reliced Maple Fingerboard
- Match radius of bridge and fretboard?
- Post a picture of your completed mandolin built from a kit
- Double neck mandolin
- Adivce on Ode
- mando-centric luthier in central NJ?
- Intonation issues with only 1 string
- Damage on A-2
- Question about the Saga A M 10 Kit
- Bone, Tusq or other for new nut and bridge saddle?
- Monteleone's workshop
- Ebony overlay
- Crystal Forest Mandolin bridge height
- Comparison between mandolin kits
- Which glue did Gibson use in the Lloyd Loar era for binding?
- Approximate cost of new fretboard
- Stainless or EVO
- Desolve Gorilla glue
- Breedlove Quartz 00 Setup with The Mando Shop in Tallahassee
- Gibson A ID
- "Modern" vs. Traditional Bluegrass Sound -- What Build Factors?
- DIY Inlay Routing
- Before the "Virzi" came the "Ceccherini"
- Fill & Redrill peg head
- Replacement Tuners for a Washburn M-3 SW
- pick guard peeling on my 60's Martin A, Help!
- First fret high
- Thinking about refinish
- Custom Work?
- Cleaning Vintage 3 on a Plate Tuners
- Choice of tonewood for top
- Strings too tensioned
- Smoke Damage / Cleaning, Odor Removal
- This tops all the which glue to use discussions!
- Piezo PU Installs
- First Gibson rebuild
- Lighted Magnifier
- Desperately Seeking Hardware: 1976 Ibanez F model
- Losing a piece of history...
- Thanks to robster
- Denver-area luthier who re-topped Tim Moody's Marc Simon mando?
- Balsa and vinyl mandolins with some art.
- Magnetic pickups
- first attempt at a pickguard
- 1917 Gibson pick guard repair
- Maccafferri plastic guitar tuning machines
- Full Contact Bridge VS Arched Bridge
- Saga kit issue
- Adjusting Saddle with Leverage?
- I'm finishing
- Regal Mandolin that needs crack repair - Help please!
- sustainable (uk) tonewood thesis