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- Schaller tuning machine repair?
- Brace repair through the f-hole
- tuners for a bowlback
- pollmann mando/guitar
- Mandolin repair near Swansboro NC
- Fret saws
- Stroh Guitar, ukulele. Gramophone-Horn- Resonator
- Tone wood
- Left handed player with bridge and nut issues...
- My latest build...
- UK supplier of spruce wedges
- My New Big Muddy M-2
- mandolin center seam repair
- Sharpening wood gouges
- Feeler gauges for measuring string height question
- Best budget spray kit
- Another HHG question
- finish touch up question
- My Hinde 2 point is under construction!
- Gluing The Tailpin?
- arch top guitar
- One A string goes "boing"
- Zero glide nut? Basically a fret added to the nut. Thoughts?
- Kawalek Build Workshop in Virginia
- F style with broken scroll -- couple of ?s
- Vega bowl back tuners
- Looking for black walnut back and sides for F5 build
- So this neck angle is perfectly acceptable, right?
- Head Heigh for a ~1916 FairBanks Electric Tone Ring Little Wonder
- Thinking of converting a classical guitar into a tenor guitar...
- Corrosion of A and E strings
- Looking for an f-style scroll Sovereign mandolin
- how do i fix jumping strings?
- Morgan Monroe mms 7 with strange backside.
- Good Vs Bad Koa guitar Tops
- a rattling in my godin a8
- Making the peghead
- Tailpiece angle, is this safe? Or does it need to be bent?
- bridge direction?
- Octave Mando slotted fret scale template
- Odd change in pitch
- Good Mando Luthier in Chicago for a Gibson junior
- Romanian Cobza I just finished building
- New Orleans area luthier?
- CAD/CNC question: anyone using ASPIRE?
- Aged Ivoriod Tuners
- PDF printouts from The Ultimate Bluegrass Mandolin Construction M
- Buzzing Suggestions?
- I may be crazy but it sounds good
- Refret Considerations
- Gunk Removal
- Tenor guitar finally finished...
- Reaming tuner holes
- Just introducing myself
- Nylon string advice
- Marketing challenges
- Double Neck
- Eastman lacquer finish question
- So I want to build an A-style mandolin
- Ric Style Octave Mandolin Build
- 1916 Gibson A
- Just dicovered crack on side of Mandolin
- Tenor Banjo Rebuild
- band saw size requirement
- '20 Gibson A2 bracket needs repair
- Need Siminoff Mandolin Info
- Don Kawalek Mandolin Building Workshop, March 25-30, 2018
- Refinish mandolin?
- Anyone interested in a system to measure depth and chart it?
- Old Tuners with a problem
- Soprano/Piccolo mando body structure
- Another varnish question...
- Latest build, Ramal-style Zenne Oud
- E-Mando Luthier?
- Bowlback sunken top
- What do you use..
- Removing Frets on a Neopolitan bowlback
- Reamer for tuner bushings
- Tonewood vs Rosewood fretboards - which is better
- Campanella Due
- Jeweler's Saw
- Shuffleboard surface test and fix HELP!
- Mesquite as Ebony alternative for fingerboards
- Brazilian rosewood for mandolins?
- On the Wisdom of Faux-Rosewood (or indeed Faux anything)
- Pick guards
- Thudding A String
- Snakehead Peghead Repair by Marc Glickman
- Cleaning/protecting a 1902-1904 Gibson
- Variation in spruce
- Build Number 2 - A5 style -First Sunburst
- help picking woods for a build...
- need a rosette
- Dead D and D# on E-strings
- What to do about crack on edge of maple back plate?
- Help! Trying to contact a particular mandolin luthier...
- Gluing Back and Top---Using the "Pallet Knife Technique" ?
- reseting the bridge
- Latest build - Oud Arbi (Andalusian Oud)
- Gibson J series bridge (NMC)
- Question about Nitrocellulose lacquer
- Intonation: remind me...
- Martin Tenor guitar saddle removal
- I want to upload pics of my Mandolin
- The Gibson Mandolin A-3; Serial #23099
- Flat top radius question
- Fret board drops off after 12th fret
- Rough banjo tuners on a tenor guitar
- Recommendation Needed for Tortoise Pickguard Installation
- Removing Pick Guard
- Taylor V-class bracing - No direct mando content
- Concerns about Shipping to Cold Climate
- Gibson F-2 Restoration Recommendations
- Worn down frets on my '02 fern, guide me please
- An inelegant solution
- What is this case
- Quirky little idea
- No Power Tool Mandolin
- First build: Tenor Uke (NMC)
- Reducing weight without reducing stiffness.
- Where to buy solid wood for Mandolin?
- Using obscure woods
- Arch top with flat back
- Fretting the board before gluing to neck
- Tailpiece replacement
- Parrota Wood--help in identifying
- Learning Opportunities...
- Bowl back fun
- Neck block size?
- 8 string electric octave mandolin bridge?
- Builder's block and finish questions.
- Neck block grain orientation
- Harmony H950T Tenor Guitar to Octave Mandolin
- Found a crack on top of my Big Muddy
- F style tuner swap
- Is it necessary to repair a crack?
- Worn finish - pinkie rut. Help!
- how to remove epoxy on the top sound board ?
- Mandolin vs. Winter
- Bouzouki Bridge Question
- White Mandolins!
- making my own pick...
- Sacrilege?
- Off centre enpin jack
- Charango top repair
- Torrified Red Spruce vs. Carpthian
- Grover 309 Missing Screw
- Central Kansas Professional Luthier
- Engelmann spruce tops...your preferred bracing/ tone bars
- Spoilt Satin Finish on Collings MT
- Mahogany Oud Arbi
- jig and clamp setup
- String popping out of bridge?? Help!
- Rogue tailpiece replacement?
- Can I fix this without removing the top?
- Should i be worried?
- insurance claim advice
- adjustable bridges without thumbwheels
- Material cost to build
- Rogue and gsharp
- 'Wetter' tone A-5 mandolins
- New build glue joint on back comming apart; how to repair
- Does anyone have the recipe for modern Gibson brown?
- Trapdoor Restore
- Exact scale length of standard big muddy mandolin?
- A quick bit of fun
- Bridge strings spacing
- Headstock inlay designs for a novice.
- Northfield F5 tuners
- Transtint on spruce.
- Restoring a mandolin by Salvador Ibanez e Hijos
- Early medieval lute just finished :)
- Stewmac ebony veneers
- What tuners on my ‘08 Fern?
- Newest Bulldog off the bench
- ISO standard for musical instruments
- Function of mandolin rims
- Mandolin kit build-loss of volume
- Magic Probe, any use it, and is it accurate?
- We are safe
- 03 F5L question
- Reciprocating or power carvers for carving plates
- V-Joint fixture plans
- Same pitch on the 12,13,14 Fret.
- taping vs scraping on bindings
- Changing fretboard inlays
- Wood changed color after sanding
- What causes this?
- questions about hide glue
- Crack in the back. Any advice?
- working up cherry logs from damaged tree (NMC)
- Avoiding micro bubbles in waterbase finish
- short scale and carved top oval
- 1st build from scratch after 2 kits
- 6 mandolins in 2 days
- One piece sides
- Peghead veneers
- Replace fretboard on a Alrite?
- Repair in Asheville NC
- "slot tuners"?
- Purple-burst A-style, oval hole Muleskinner Mando
- Muleskinner Mando - Oval Hole, A-Style
- Don MacRostie's DVD
- Back seam repair needed on F4
- Redwood over walnut
- Collings customer service
- Kentucky split-lip neck joint
- Comfused with glues - Kisslinger bowlback
- How do I make a Jig to put a bevel on a pick?
- gotoh mandolin tunner buttons
- Replacing tuners
- torrefied wood
- What’s this?
- Lacquer lifting
- Seeking specifications for a octave mandolin
- DFX code for f5 f hole
- Spindle Sander for Binding Thicknessing?
- Starting a Bowlback
- Jointing using a Stanley No. 7
- Royal Lac
- Regluing a label
- Tony Revell Mandolins
- Alrite Total Makeover
- Fret Wear from a Mechanical Engineer's View
- X braceing "top sinkage"
- Minimum headstock angle
- Another Romanian cobza just finished
- Searching for a builder: Jim Rowland in Ohio
- Opportunity for Apprentice Luthier
- Cracked bridge
- Finish options
- Wood Identification Assistance
- Cello conversion contender?
- Martin 2-15 neck
- Do I need a repair person who specializes in mandolins?
- Warped pickguard fix
- Quilted maple
- My First Octave Mandolin - Design & (Hopefully) Build Thread
- Tenor guitar top thickness
- Stiff tuning peg
- F-5 Point Material Choice--When Using Curly Maple Bindings
- marking strips for joint fitting
- Questions about bridge design
- Eastman Mandolin Cast Aluminum Tailpiece END PIN.
- Easiest/safest procedure for adjusting bridge tilt?
- Question about position of soundhole on an oval hole mandolin
- Early medieval lute based on Cappella Palatina / Palatine Chapel
- Refret Eastwood emando: neck on or off?
- F5 Scroll Question - One Piece or Three?
- A hypothetical question: flattop mando with pin bridge?