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- Lloyd Loar graduation charts needed for back of an a5 or f5.
- Only 324 instruments to go....
- More on kits, please!
- re-graduating a top and a back without opening the instrument.
- Custom Fretless Mandolin Build
- Another neck repair
- next kit question
- Soundboard - how thin is still usable?
- Mayflower bowlback questions
- concerns about storing wood
- Looky What He Made!
- Cedar as a top tone wood
- Heavier gauge strings.
- Paste Wax as Lube for Tuner Holes Without Bushings?
- Re String - Advice needed for Newbie
- a couple of ?s Lignum Vitae, ebony dust etc
- Help! can't keep blade adjusted in 10 mm IBEX finger plane
- Flatback German Mandriola restoration project (prequel)
- CA for bindings
- Best instruction book?
- Rust never sleeps
- Newbie Questions on Second Hand Mandolin Faults
- Cello building.
- lesson learned.. forstner? odd bit source?
- String Buzz Question
- recommended fretwire for 1920 A2
- Mea Culpa
- Fixing a cavity
- Can you help me identify this wood?
- deflection threshold
- Siminoff H5 Build
- Failed tuner button
- Refinishing A 1919 Gibson A3 Whiteface...
- Behlen's Qualasol Padding Finish
- "Sizing" in violin-making and its relevance to mandolin building
- Kentucky KM-150 conversion
- Bridge Replacement on Puerto Rican Cuatro
- Question about EM2000
- Bois d'arc, Bodark, Osage Orange.. anyone harvest/quartersaw?
- Couple of dumb questions about a bridge
- Rover, Monroe or Loar for a beginner - intermediate player?
- Neck finish question.
- Pricetone Question
- KM1000 with bigger frets, scoop and radius - WOW!!
- Gibson distressing technique...
- Big Fret Question?
- jointer ---> thickness sander
- Slanted nut base
- Guitar ?
- Looking for a local Luthier
- Emulate this sunburst on Ellis
- Gibson TB-Junior Head Replacement
- Side sound hole
- RANTISH, Thousandth, or to the inch? Glue or drywall screws?
- First 3D printed violin
- Will it buff out?
- 5 coarse mandola.
- Armrest kills tone?
- Engelmann/Blue spruce hybrid!
- Mandolin parts.
- Wanted : drawings A4 mandolin
- Just finished this one !
- Tap tuning back issues
- Genoese baroque mandolin
- How to stain a mandolin
- Double identity
- Temporary insanity
- Godin A8 truss rod adjustment help and advice needed!
- Waverly tuner adjustment
- Tinny sounding A course
- StewMac has dropped A-5 kit?
- "The Loar 700" Re-invent/Rescue and Martin R18 Rescue
- Newbie with some general questions
- Dismantle all the strings
- Need some advice on a bouzouki build.
- Just like fire would.
- anyone make ukes?
- Is there anything I can do to make tuning work better?
- Rob Meldrum E book
- life changes; one door closes, another opens/hits you in the nose
- Mando neck pulling up advice needed
- Need pearl button for Gold Waverly tuners on Ellis F5
- Tuner recommendation?
- Maya Artist Mandolin - soundboard collapse?
- Gap between tuner plate and mandolin headstock
- Neck slimming for Carlson Flatiron A?
- Mandolin Repair
- Lacey Act Example Form -- HOW TO -- shipping to the US
- what oil do you use to clean fingerboard
- Would someone please identify this tool?
- Olive oil on a "speed neck" ??
- Mandos Played at IBMA
- pedantic nut material question
- another approach for removing stubborn end pins
- Soundboard Too Thin From The Start
- Fretboard Extension Frets Question (filing them level)
- string core gauge science
- That Ellis A in the classifieds ...
- Widening a fret board
- Two restorations...
- Time machine For a Monty ??
- Beginner restoration project
- Harvesting Norway Maple A. platanoides
- Fretboard quake
- Redoing an MMR-2 mandolin
- Concave Saddle?
- Mandocello conversion
- Using blasting for inlay etchings?
- Luthier Workshop Today :)
- Any problems with super glue reacting with existing glues
- My thrift store mandolin modification project
- Guitar question
- How To Do Inlay
- Eastman MD815V
- help! frets too high? Bridge too low? Colombian mandolin
- Pick Guard Buzzes
- Humidity and Humidifier
- mandolin volume
- Figured Woods vs. Plain Woods
- Non mandolin question but...
- How do I get rid of mold in a case and on a mandolin?
- New instrument, new technology
- Rubner tuners and Stewmac tuner jig
- 'True Temperament' intonated fretboards
- refurbishing old (ivoroid?) binding + pickguard plastic
- What's that smell?
- Any One ever..
- Spiltting Billets
- Glue for plasitc bindings?
- Plate Carving Gouge Recommendations
- reason for carved top
- Binding size and Binding channel
- Mandolin Neck Relief Question.
- Eastman
- crack in mandolin top suggestion on fix
- For fewer broken peg heads...
- Who uses CNC tops and backs?
- Advice on using a O'Brien Neck Jig
- 335 finish issue.
- Cleaning chalk after fitting dovetail.. suggestions?
- First OM Build
- Dremel router attachment
- siphon or gravity?
- Graduations for A-style oval hole mandolin
- DIY neck reset
- Head block question
- Electronics
- Suppose you glued the back on too soon!
- Ovangkol wood used as a fretboard
- Funny stuff
- String spacing question
- wood species
- Advice on repair to endpin hole please
- Scarf joint re-repair question
- Made my own nut....
- Filling gap between neck heel and body (uke)
- Persimmon (American ebony) fret boards and bridges
- Interesting pickguard
- Sitar like whang on one open E string
- Mandolin top thicknes
- Recommendations for a Pennsylvania luthier to do a fret job A4?
- repairing excessive bridge saddle to threaded post clearance
- Kentucky KM 140 collapsed top
- Electric mandolin building?
- Aw, nuts!
- CNC Peghead Inlays
- Flat versus Radiuses Fingerboards
- Introduction plus shout out to Rob Meldrum
- Paula's Vintage Kay rebuild and learning project.
- Lacewood useage
- Steam Needle
- Two Bolts In Mando Neck?
- Refretting an Eastman
- Electric Octave Mandolin Conversion
- Paula's Vintage Kay Learning Project- Neck Reset
- Sanding tight corners
- Paula's Vintage Kay learning project- Cracks and Separations
- Fret height (crown)
- Seam separation problem
- 1950 Martin 2-15 mandolin on eBay
- McDonald Project bracing puzzle
- Bargin prices for chisels and gouges?
- Older Jet 14" Bandsaw--Hinge for Upper Wheel Broken
- Down & Dirty Neck Reset on National Supro Collegian Resonator
- DIY bindings
- Cutting Binding Channel
- Early 20th century tonewood
- What kind of quality can I expect from a mandolin kit from SM
- Just bent my first sides
- Enduro-Var
- Source for teens era Gibson mandolin fretwire?
- Mandoline resurface
- To build his own mandolin
- Questions about "yellowed" binding...
- Neck/fretboard measurements?
- Hans Brentrup Book
- Refretting
- Saddle Screw heighth
- First One Piece Ebony Bridge
- filling small cracks
- Misplaced top
- F-hole crack, self repair or expert & which glue to use?
- My second sunk top !!!
- new 815 eastman
- Guitar question - Zen and the eternal buzz
- cloth covered braces harmony marquise
- Best guides for beginner builders
- Tailpiece
- Slot head screws for Gotoh Tuners
- Fixing a top crack- how
- How to fix my peghead binding "senior moment"
- 3D printing radius dishes?
- G string intonation
- Help ~ I broke my newly bought Eastman 305.
- neck angle
- Old World Tonewood
- This mandolin is playable ?
- Re-carving the Top and Back-
- Now I'm getting excited
- Thinning the neck of an OM?
- Looking for a supplier of mandolin humbuclers
- Finishing maple binding
- Setting up a mandola bridge -- mismatched radii
- Planning mandola build
- Opinions wanted on compound radius for an F octive
- Humidity
- String Action gauge -- economy version
- Newly finished OM from a Don Kawalek kit
- Blue Bird cf mandolin
- Cutting F Holes
- Bar frets!
- Stuck tuner bearings
- Varnish on the FB of my 1960s A style Martin
- Confused About Bridge Compensation
- help with dobro mando string spacing
- Using a plane
- Designing a new type of double top Mandolin (DT Model)
- Guitar with active preamp - three wires to 1/4" jack?
- Tone Differences in Bridges for Flat top Mando
- witness lines
- Luthier in Scranton PA area
- Finger Plate Screws
- Neck Skewed
- New Player Question about Setup : A Chords do not sound the same
- Tuning Machines
- tuning key replacement?
- Stromberg-Voisenet tuners?
- OM Flat top Soundboard Radius?
- voicing, better solo or in group?
- tenor guitar neck reinforcement