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- Lumpy walnut neck stripe
- Installing frets on mando...
- Mathematical visualisations.
- Grey Eagle mandolins/ skip peyre
- Positioning of tone bars inside soundboard of an A5 or an F5
- Destroyed Gibson F2 rebuild
- Advice please
- Octave mandolin bridge
- Setup - Need Guidance/Diagnosis
- My hat is off!...
- Mandolin Tops - Tonewood
- Merlefest
- Spindle sanders
- Tips for having a speed neck done in Nashville?
- Need advice on nut repair
- Hot Dot
- Thanks to Walter "June" Johnson
- Nice shop for sale - Kieth Newell's
- Interesting f hole design story
- Truss Rod Wrench Won't Fit Hole
- Gibson Tailpiece Question
- Arrrrgh!
- Fabric Softener
- Yet Another Neck and Joint Question Thread
- Using color as a sanding aid
- Trying to fix tailpiece that is puling away from body
- Warped top on a Silvertone
- Space Between Courses?
- Mandolin setup - any luthier in or around San Francisco?
- bending blanket
- First Time Project: Cracked Antique
- Natural top finish - any tips?
- Most preferred tuners?
- Web page
- drilling tuner holes
- peghead repair
- Shellac + stew mac water based color tone dye - good idea?
- OT? -- Zero Fret Question
- Tomorrow's Challenge:Broken Headstock on Kentucky KM-550
- Mandolin-Banjo Project
- Badly botched binding channel...
- Mandolin Set Up - Rob Meldrum e-Book
- Fret End Bevel Angle
- Possible resonator conversion
- One vs two tonebars?
- Asssciation of Stringed Instrument Artisans Symposium
- KM 505 Trussrod - No affect?
- Bad cut
- Craigslist Question
- Replacement bridge for old archtop tenor?
- Help identify this wood, if possible....
- loosening-up tight tuning gears
- Granadillo fretboard
- Carved my first sound board :)
- martin A style clone.
- Thoughts on the utility of the jointer and planer?
- EnduroVar Caution
- Bending sides .. my way
- cumberland bridges
- Finger plane survey
- Luthier near Long Beach, New York
- Carving tool
- Mike Kemnitzer contact info
- Plan differences
- Improving a 2005 Eastman 815
- Struglling with Curly back joint
- Replicating Gibson Mandocello Bridge
- Plastic Bushings! Yuck!
- Time for new frets?
- Neapolitan mandolin mechanic
- Question: Neck Modifications
- Eastman MD-505
- Should I even think about fixing this crackled finish?
- First mando building saga
- 20's F4 to rebuild...
- Brunkalla Mandolin Question
- Widening endpoint hole for jack
- finished the top bracing :)
- Siminoff V-joint versus Dovetail joint?
- mandolin kits?
- Fretboard gluing question
- Tuning Gear Question
- Can shellac be sprayed and buffed to a shine?
- Never again will I spray stain.
- converting a D-28 to a style 45...
- Crystal varnish
- Matching the top to the back...
- luthier workshop's this summer?
- Repairing a 1936 Gibson K-1 mandocello
- guitar nut compensation ???
- Turn of the Centruy Bruno Neck Issue
- Gibson players afraid of repairs?
- Installing a volume pot.
- Please recommend a luthier close to dc
- Wiggle end L-1 tuners?
- 1918 Gibson A4 tuner questions
- Bernabe Mandolins
- Golden Age Tuners
- Questions about repairing nut cut too low
- New bridge for Gibson AJr: Cumberland, Siminoff or Stew Mac?
- Tone bar grain direction question
- Post your shop built tools!
- Broken headstock--need help
- Jigs and fixtures
- inverted pin router
- '20's Harmony 'Viol'(faux Shutt) mando repair advice
- Source for replacement tuner buttons, 1957 Fender mando caster
- eastman md315 finish repair
- A question about glue residue around the neck joint
- Replacement bridge for a Guild guitar
- Dimensional stability of particle board
- America's 'Most Wanted" Luthier Comes Out of Hiding
- broken peg head
- Buffing methods
- Ebony scraps
- Broke my saddle and threading
- First sunburst
- Carving aggravates my back.
- A5 in the home stretch.... Sort of...
- I need a trustworthy luthier in the Phoenix, Arizona area
- Arching differences SM RS and SC
- Tool recommendations: vise and fiber optic scope
- Best way to get the gunk off?
- G.Puglisi Reale & Figli - 100 yr old MandoThingy
- Do you provide recommendation for string gauge to buyers?
- Judging modern violin-family luthiers and their instruments
- Caribbean rosewood and canarywood bending properties?
- scale length
- More on the broken peg head
- Harvesting lumber with a chain saw!
- OT: Guitar Repair In No. Ohio
- My second or third, I don't know which is sounding great!
- 1924 Martin Style A Tuner Maintenance.
- Bald Cypress: Anyone Make a Top With It?
- Replacement tuners for 1923 Gibson F4?
- Getting Started Building....maybe?
- Questions about maple
- Handel guitar tuners ???
- Johnson/Savannah 120 NA tuners
- Saddle bridge groove issue
- Frying pan restoration
- string spacing on a Mandola
- Buzzzz on "D" course, fifth fret
- Cleaning mandolin banjo head
- Munden #2, two point.
- band saw vibration
- String history.
- 1912 Gibson F4
- On the Hunt for a New (or Used) Mandolin
- Hide Glue joint came apart after weekend rain.
- Schaller or Golden Age?
- Ding in my baby
- Public builder service announcement.
- Building a case
- bending top on early a style martin
- Sander option for recurve area
- Bad news for bridge posts
- Gluing splits or cracks in bent ribs...
- Spindle Sander---How Useful Are the 3 inch Drums?
- Newest project
- Recommendations for a beginner took kit?
- Floating pickup (Almost Finished)
- Nut height
- New mandola, loose strings, bridge moved?, tune up, string breaks
- Replacement for Golden Age Restoration tuners?????
- Norlin era Gibson mandolins
- Climate control in old Gibson factory?
- Headstock scroll repair
- Godin A8 buzz
- Cool project? (NMC)
- Mandola bracing...
- mandolin set-up near Washington, DC
- warping backplate
- Neck re-setting help needed?
- hide glue, fish glue.. working time.
- magnet to hold file
- Mayflower bowlback rehab
- Fun Saturday
- Lacquer question
- 1920s regal reverse scroll project questions.
- Anyone built a poplar mandolin?
- Vintage mandolin - fitting new strings
- Scored on eBay...I think...
- Another "buffing out the satin finish" thread
- ktm-9
- Carbon fiber mandolin
- Headstock Scroll Repair
- Shopbot.... I know, I KNOW!! Not another CNC thread!!
- How to remove fingerboard binding, and other questions
- ball ends
- Does anyone use an Arbortech turboplane?
- Fretting issue on D string
- Tenor guitar setup
- V- or Round-cut nut grooves?
- Fixable or fatal flaw?
- Broke my Nut!!
- Repair of Ratliff R-5 neck
- Wood ID please
- styrofoam top on a cello
- My first Mandolin - Puglisi Reale & Figli 1925
- Let's see your odd sound holes and side ports...
- Absolutely NO Mandolin content!!!
- Why do people buy Gibson copies when they can buy a Gibson?
- Flea market score!
- Different woods
- Broken neck on Gibson Jam Master.
- Any suggestions on a luthier to look at bowl-backs near Syracuse?
- Jiri Lebeda Instruments
- Quick and dirty electronics?
- doolin vs. fox benders: or why won't a fox bender handle scrolls?
- Washburn / lyon & healey catalog 1889
- New Kentucky Km150 Bridge hieght is crooked, help
- Anyone use the fretboard slotting jig from Stew Mac?
- Face damage is it worth fixing mandolin
- Rookie question...how to tell bridge front from back?
- The Saga of My Epiphone
- What is it with Martin fretboards?
- Binding width at scroll
- Muffled tone
- Mandocello Bridge Compensation
- Replacement tuner button for KM1000
- Looking for Reliant DD39C 6" jointer manual & parts source
- Shot for "sandbags" for shop
- tuners for my BANJOLIN
- Why Tonewood Dealers Have A Bad Reputation...
- Fret crowning tool
- Filling Small Screw Holes
- Celluloid binding glue question
- Celluloid binding glue question
- Norwegian Guitar Bouzouki
- Setup verses repair tech
- Rattles.. Oh the joy.
- installing pickguard
- Are Gilchrist's tuned to C#?
- Lawrence Smart Sunburst
- windfall: (almost) free tools
- Paulownia for blocks and linings?
- Water based stain
- Repair Documentation
- tone bar placement
- Replacing small frets on KM1000 with bigger ones
- Wondering what these small round "pins" are for on this Mandolin
- Confirming head block grain direction
- Mandolin Luthier Around Ft. Worth, TX
- Quilted Neck Question
- Summer humidity and instrument changing shape
- Macica Workshop: New Fall 2015 Instrument Making Classes
- guess it's in my genes
- Vintage Gibson mandolin Repair in North Carolina?
- Stew-mac kits?