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- Before or after.
- midnight blue
- Better alternatives to Duco Cement...looking fopr new suggestions
- Where to install the internal jack on a TC bouzouki
- First hand rubbed sunburst
- replacing tuner buttons 0.135" flat to flat shaft
- String spacing
- Everything you wanted to know about Intonation.
- Aix -en-Provence mandolin repair
- lowered my bridge
- Working with nickel silver
- Bridge position
- Great use for broken glass
- My first arch top, in the white
- <Removed> Mandola.
- Damaged mandolin for sale
- Electric Instrument Scale Length
- Mando #2 flattop, pics
- Harris Mandolin Making: Fitting Tone Bars
- "Bear Claw" spruce vs good straight grained spruce
- Best a5 plans
- Neck joint question
- Sound check please
- Maple tone wood?
- Problem with wood taking dye
- splitting tone wood
- Tuner bushing reamer
- First build...lacquer questions.
- Reduce bracing on tenor guitar?
- 1920's Bent Top Regal Project. As it came to me.
- Spruce alternatives
- Stewmac kits
- informative/interesting build pictures/tech from Stan Miller
- Getting in touch with Ben Wilcox of BRW
- mandolin finishes
- strapholder A mandolin tone influence ?
- Baby Taylor to OM - bridge plate reinforcement questions
- Best re-fret shop¿
- Harris Mandolin Making: Truss Rod
- Scientists create transparent wood
- Dust sticking to mandolin while spraying shellac. Any advice?
- Looking for a Hunch Bet in the Preakness?
- Looking for a Weber Bridge
- Standard string spacing at bridge????
- Help fix a screwup
- Treasure found
- Harris Mandolin Making: Printing Labels
- Humidity control
- Epiphone top sunk down, bridge cracked
- chalk fitting
- Tuneup in CT?
- Weber A Black Ice
- low action versus good tone
- Beefing up tone bars on completed mandolin
- New piece of maple
- Removing binding from a 1920 A2 Gibson-cool video
- back bow when installing frets
- Luthier advice?
- Mandolin Banjo parts
- Post a video of you recent builds
- Haywood A5 Completed
- Finish question
- Shellac vs Vinyl Sealer for lacquer finish
- Splitting wood old school
- New Kimble A5!
- How to clean a Waverly Cloud tailpiece cover
- Holly tree?
- Prototype build thread- Single-point design in madrone OM
- Old finish match NMC
- The nut broke when changing my strings
- Where the back braces meet the sides
- Wood Binding F5 Mandolin
- General Gibson F4 tuner repair questions
- First try in building a mandolin from scratch
- Work on vintage Catania Mandolin
- Trust, but Verify - a Cautionary Tale
- Spool clamps
- Skip Kelley Mandolin
- Simple Physics Experiment
- Anyone building in carbon fiber?
- A bandolim with an inside mould
- Newbie question!
- Emery board for fret crowning?
- Gibson F-9 Heel Cap Problem (?)
- Sanding
- Tape the F-holes shut!
- Source for Grover tuner button screw?
- The Loar Lm 300 - conversion to octave mandolin
- Oval hole mandolins
- First Mandolin Build - Don Kawalek Kit
- Tone woods in upstate New York
- Glue... Advice?
- Building an Armrest?
- REALLY old salvaged wood.
- Orthrographic projection
- Kentucky 380S Setup
- Long distance sales
- Splittiness and "muddy sound" of Cedars (WRC and AYC)
- Looking for a source for redwood top wood for flat mandolins
- K&K pickup installation problem(tape failure)
- G string slips off saddle on Godin A8
- this drill press miter cutting tool looks very nice
- Bridge posts leaning
- Tavy & Plinkey rehab 1897 Calace mandolin
- OT: Violin question
- IV kit... Not impressed
- IV kit... Not impressed
- Vintage Gibson blown out sides
- Homemade Thickness Sander
- Headstock finish issue
- Ibex vs Veritas planes
- Cleaning discoloration on unfinished spruce
- Finishing, finishing and more finishing
- Repair of bowlback mandolin
- Friend's guitar :o
- 1920s Gibson A Oval hole set up.
- Very sharp hand tools
- Thickness caliper
- To convert (or not) Gibson L-3 to a Mandocello - Any consensus?
- Practice backboard/carving questions
- Full-size printable A style template
- My new favorite hand tool
- What to do with high action/fixed bridge
- Michael Kelly Solid A Setup help
- Tuner replacement for Gibson teens mandola
- Finished IV Kit. Hagerty #0001
- White #5 is finally up and running.
- F-style Mandolin with Curly Maple Binding
- James Tailpiece mounting holes,,are they the same?
- 1923 Movie Showing Tap Tuning, Sand Vibration, etc. with violin
- De-glossing Eastman neck
- How to remove unidentified old glue
- NMC: Finish Issues
- Building Oval Holes
- Finish shrinkage at glue seams
- Carbon Fiber Mandolin
- handel tuners screw.........HELP
- Who's building high break angles?
- Epiphone Masterbilt Archtops
- How Best To Remove Chrome from and Resonator Mandolin
- Hidersine oil varnish redux
- Maple top mandolin
- Advice on shaping the outside of a top or back
- Where to buy Waverlys Pearl outside USA?
- Carving map for A-model mando
- G string buzzes...
- Selling your mandos at festivals.
- Mandolin bridge question
- Advice on gouges
- Radius measurement on 2007 Breedlove Quartz OF?
- Binding making
- right tack cloth
- Getting the sound of a bowl back
- Persimmon fret boards for F-style mandolins
- Irish Bouzouki Questions
- Dial Indicator question
- Armrest on a Gretch
- Popping the grain on a natural finish.
- Bandsaw blade?
- Esteve
- Side wood
- First Build - Pancake / Army-Navy Style scratch build
- Installing a strap button on A style
- Very thin under-nut shim material options
- A Model Celtic Mandolin made by Keith Edward Coleman, Luthier
- how long does a new mandolin setup take ???
- Vega D-26 Archtop Neck re-set
- Recommendations for mandolin setup in the Boston area?
- Sawstop table saw and LMI fret saw blades?
- Induced Arch
- Ditching
- Tuner identification
- Adjusting truss rod
- Fitting and slotting a new nut?
- Hat's off to June mandolins
- What causes blonde woods to darken as they age?
- Methods for removing a too-thick refinish on A-Jr?
- Don't discount your local lumber store.
- Red spruce mandolin and mandolin soundboard sets
- Mandolin headstock finish
- Stripped bridge adjustment nuts!!
- Calace Mandolins and their e-mail service
- Bridge spacing
- warped flattop
- Some thoughts on mandocello contruction
- tuning machines for Gibson A40
- Finger board side markers trouble
- Simeon Chambers Closing Shop...
- Bookmatch thickness
- Don Musser contact info?
- Ditson Bowlback Bridge
- Tailpiece Cover Falls Off - Gibson Flatiron
- Luthier
- best method to clean mandolin surface?
- Binding headstock
- Truss Rod Nut Size Northfield
- Ugly Gibson mandolin in the classifieds
- How much does a crack (repaired) depreciate value?
- How to build a saz
- Hacklinger gauge can hack it
- Repairing damaged lacquer on back w/o damaging marquetry-NMC
- top piece at end of neck above head block
- Frets and binding
- small dents in spruce top
- In house workshop
- Widening My Fretboard
- Looking for 1" x 6" silicone heating blanket for bridge removal
- I made another thing!
- Zero Glide nut from Stew Mac
- What does "varnish sinking" mean?
- High Action after glueing back together
- Dismantling a James tailpiece?
- optimal string height
- Source for ivoroid crosspiece and binding?
- Adjustable VS Non-Adjustable truss rods...
- Elderly and Eastman Warranty
- Sinking Soundboards Revisited
- Re-gluing guitar bridge
- f9 truss rod
- Bridge conundrum
- Gibson mandocello repair or refinish
- Need a method for accurate glue up of neck
- Harmony Batwing tuner repair/replacement
- Mixed Fret Sizes
- 1962 00-18 Martin Restoration
- New website
- What is the best electronic pick up for an acoustic mandolin?
- Bridge Split
- Port Orford Cedar, grafted Pistachio
- Corian for F5 points
- tone trouble
- Kentucky KM-1000 Master F-model - V-neck shape
- Wooden pants
- Refret in Houston or somewhere thereabouts
- pimples in my shellac
- Composition of the lacquer on a 1908 Gibson A3
- Tonewood for octave mandolin
- Very inexpensive ebony bridges for mandolin
- First simple rebuild/tweak: Stagg M50
- Thank you Michael Heiden!
- Is this bridge/saddle height too much?
- What could cause the top to sink?
- Collings MT2 tone guard ?
- Do the sheet rock screws help this mandocello?
- No Mando.content - Michael Greenfield building a guitar.
- Would this work?
- sinking top; full contact bridge?
- Would A New Fretboard Fix Intonation Issues?
- Gennaro Maglioni Bowlback Repair
- Need to replace Elite tuners