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- Is converting from a 1 1/8 to a 1 3/16 nut possible? Practical?
- How to refinish a vintage Mandolin
- Mandolin Set-Up
- Shout Out to Skip Kelley
- Looking to build first mandolin from cherry burl
- WiFi HD Waterproof Endoscopic Camera
- Good source for inexpensive glues?
- First Archtop Mandolin Build Thread
- Nut Files
- Filing the nut, string height changing?
- Another Sunburst Thread...
- Thickness gauge
- install of K&K internal PU
- anybody know of a place that will pattern carve a mandolin back?
- Guild of American Luthier's Convention next week in Tacoma, Wa.
- Virzi tone produce
- Armrest for a Gibson J mandobass?
- All Walnut Body?
- Relubricating Grover Rotomatics - no mandolin content
- Harmony Batwing Truss Rod Question
- Gernandt Mandolins North Carolina
- Washburn M5s Mandolin Truss Rod Tool
- fretboard radius question
- Nut-slot Direction
- Repaired solid wood mando for begginer
- Sweat stains on Gibson mandola back
- New CA bridge installation: bridge angle?
- Banjo Armrest hardware? Sorry, NMC
- Fredrick Snyder #16 Ebay Purchase Need Advice
- Using miniwax for staining
- Contour placement, recurve and the whole package
- Gibson Pearloid tuner pegs
- Glueing back small piece of binding
- Finish question... "Nitro Varnish?"
- How to do a black top finish
- Getting Uniform Dye Coloring on (Bad) Spruce
- Stringing up new build
- Finish question
- Maintaining strings
- questions about stick-on pickups
- Question about using Tru-Oil Varnish
- Books
- Another finish question please
- Blush remover - great stuff.
- Bridge
- Craigslist cocobolo....
- Cat headstock inlays?
- Where the strings make contact on the saddle
- Birdseye - How Does it Affect Sound?
- Help with a bridge question for my 1930's A 50
- Antique case - how to preserve
- Gibson goldrush
- F model mandolin plans/specs
- Bruce Weber just reprofiled and speednecked my Gibson A5-L
- Tone qualities due to body size?
- Opinions of Moon A plus E mandolin (or just Moon in general)
- Mandolin bridge height compensation?
- First Luthier project - bridge reset on el-cheapo guitar
- Arches kits
- Neck Relief on a Mandola
- My first two mandolins
- Red spruce
- stabilize disintegrating teens Gibson finish?
- Building an A style Mandolin
- Titebond Liquid Hide Glue Result
- Bridges: do sharp vs rounded corners make any tone difference?
- No Mandolin Content -- Great PRS Customer Service
- '25 Snake Head Tune-Up
- Buzzing A strings on my Flatiron 1N
- F5 plans
- hints for bending sides
- Need Nut for Mando Strat
- Humidity Webinar
- Neck finish?
- Stew mac Bind-All glue
- Ebony log submerged in salt water for many years
- Trip to Asheville and the Condino workshop
- Loose Grover Tuner
- fishman loudbox , repair policy
- Hand rubbed sunburst
- Tonal qualities of wood
- Update on 1972 Gibson F5 rebuild:
- Sprayed sunburst no mandolin content
- What is the name of....
- violin top / back plate removal ???
- Steel f hole template
- Rubner tuners
- Lloyd Loar soundboard thickness/
- Gibson mandocello replacement bridge
- PLEK'ing a Mandolin
- Wood suggestions
- Modifications to my 1N?
- Embergher repair
- Mandolin and/or guitar luthier near north Georgia?
- need Luthier near Gainesville or Ocala to scoop my FL
- Pick Guard Brackets
- Nasty idea...
- How to get picture on instruments ?
- Have new CA bridge installed by luthier - expert opinion needed
- Requesting recommendation for setup help near Brunswick, Maine
- Left w/out Electricity Hurricane Irma; Humidity & Mandolins
- Tonal Properties of Quilted Maple
- Distressing - finish question
- Point of measuring on compensated bridge.
- Side pickup jack installation?
- Odd question
- Tuning maching identification help
- Tailpiece for The Loar 700
- Could I get some constructive feedback on this?
- Snake Head strings for old time fiddle tunes
- F2 or F4 mandolin builds
- Black Walnut Tonewoods
- removing sharpie autograph
- Excellent repair work and set ups in North Carolina
- Arching a flat bottom plane
- Thumbs up for Arches kit
- Wax on mandolin body?
- The Finish Mix
- Now I get it
- Pre Cut Inlay Suppliers
- Garage heating options
- Tailpiece needs repair - suggestions appreciated
- now available
- My latest build!
- Rob Meldrum E-book
- mandolin tuning machine button question
- What kind of mandoline-banjo is this instrument?
- Old-Style Full-Backplate Tuners
- Rigel Pickup Jack
- Torrefied Quilted Maple
- Shallar F style reverse (turn normal) tuners.
- Warmest to brightest tone woods??
- practice rig
- New Kentucky 150 with sticky neck...
- IV kit revisited
- flat / bent top mandolin: new vs. old
- Some Questions about F-hole Design
- Replacing tail piece
- Tone bars and thickness for western cedar
- hints for bending sides #2
- Best way to stain a maple fingerboard?
- Why Are Highly Figured Woods Only Used On the Backside?
- using classic guitar tuners on steel string
- My first refret, and questions
- Making a new neck?
- Bracing for a thin soundboard
- Semi-Hemispherical Fret Ends
- Martin dovetail question
- Greatest luthier's trick ever?
- Binding questions
- Set up recomendations
- What do you thinkof these frets?
- bending lacewood
- Carbon fiber D-tube for mandocello neck reinforcement
- IV kits
- Refret project on a 1913 A4
- Repair vintage celluloid
- Metallic "ringing" or resonance after damped notes
- silicon blanket without controller
- Question on applying a one color stain.
- Strange ridge/hump on soundboard.
- 12 string banjolin..
- Repairing necks with nonadjustable trussrod
- Neck issue
- repair of adjust
- Stewmac fret arbor press system-any owners/users out there
- Looking for luthier recommendations in NC (sorry, NMC)
- Octave build question
- New build strung up and playing in 15 hours of bench time...
- A late medieval lute/oud I've just finished
- Douris A5 in the white
- Mandolin setups in Victoria, BC?
- F-5 pearl fret marker dot size?
- Weymann Mandolute Bracing
- What to do? Modify or replace.
- Single Coil or Humbucking?
- Fretting a bound fingerboard
- Restoring this mandolin? (long post, sorry)
- Lloyd Loar F5 soundhole aperture area
- Gibson F-9 tuner screw
- Finishing questions
- Hot hide glue temperature
- Tomy Hovington Videos
- Stewmac Safe T Planer
- Need help identifying these tuners
- bits to cut inlays
- First-timer with the Saga kit has questions
- Success! Fearfully and Carefully Replaced My Pickguard- NMC
- Is this a feasable plate graduation technique?
- My first F-5 build
- Another Waverly Bushing Conversion Question
- position of aperture in soundboard - IV kit
- Onboard Preamp
- tailpiece
- question about f-holes...
- Wooden/bone dust - how much is toxic
- bridge height
- A barbat (Persian oud) I just finished building
- Plastics sources celluloid, galalith etc...
- Neck and fingerboard build questions
- Just a truss adjustment?
- Dealing with "Ridges" on Figured Maple Back
- Banjolele
- Hide Glue Storage
- How to Deal With a Sap Pocket---Suggestions?
- truss rod pocket and headstock overlay
- How far to reasonably lower the bridge?
- 10-string mandolin
- Drill press routing with hand made bits?
- Mandolin Bridge/Neck Problem
- What are these "braces"? (NMC)
- Tone Bars ?
- Francesco Perretti & Figli 12 string restoration
- Top removal/replacement
- Repair of chip in sunburst
- Adding a humidifier to a furnace recomendations?
- overhauling an Asian import
- Mandolele Recently completed by Tukanu
- Refretting fingerboard extension on a Gibson A-50
- Vintage Washburn Bowlback Setup
- 5 Bar Northfield
- Just in for assessment
- Seeking one who can repair an antique mandolin in DC/Metro area
- Gibson LGO Plastic Bridge
- Luthiers in CT?
- Nugget Mandolin #310
- East German Mandolin? Repair.
- High Altitude Pine for tops?
- Knob on the tuning peg stripped out on my Kentucky KM-650. Where
- Question about removing finish...
- Replacement Tuning machines for Eastman MD515
- Mandolin doesn't stay in tune
- (NMC - yet) Finishing schedule and materials for kits
- How difficult of repair is this?
- Sustain ?
- Flat top plans?
- Armrest Plans
- Source for narrow frets?
- All Things Being Equal
- What is the knock against polyurethane?
- Truss rod nut tight/still more relief than wanted
- What do you think of the bracing on this guitar.
- Installing a midi and piezo bridge on a mandolin
- Octave Mando bridge and saddle
- Finalizing the finish
- Learning about acoustics for instrument construction...
- Just bought a 1928 Regal tenor guitar. Humidor before any repair?
- Filling in the gaps
- Saddle tilts forward — any thoughts on how to fix?
- The bridge feet