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- Beaumont, Frank Pupo, guitar builder, are they of good quality?
- Best way to repair router tearout
- Putting fret markers on "binding"?
- Removing a Pickguard from a 1921 H4 Mandola?
- Replacement Tailpiece Covers?
- Experimental mandola with internal horn, neutral tension bridge
- reenforceing sound holes
- A charango I built recently
- Bridge for 5-String Emando
- Bone source
- X braced oval hole mandolins.
- Lefty mandolin converted to right?
- Best glue for wood bindings
- Recommended CNC machine
- how to take off the wooden strap button
- Truss rods
- CMC joint arthritis (no mandolin content)
- A 5-course late medieval lute I have just finished building
- Mandolin neck repair: the final solution?
- Another newbie question: How do each of you carve mandolin plate?
- Strap button for a gibson A
- Choices for a re fret
- Recent Golden Age Tuners
- Stew Mac F Mandolin Oval hole?
- Broken top plate horn
- Bridge fit
- (NMC) Jay Witcher
- Light bulb test of top plate
- damaged F style headstock
- Bridge sanding technique
- small crack at F hole, best way to fix ?
- repair advice needed
- Grover Tuner Question:
- Searching for a duplicator.
- The Width of a Mandolin
- A renaissance mandore just finished
- Pete Woodman
- Ron Hyde mandolins
- bridge string slot too shallow?
- Luthiers Machine Tools
- Finished octave mandolin
- Titebond 'hide' glue..
- Cleaning Mouse feces and urine out of an old garage kept guitar
- What finish?
- Warping beneath the bridge...
- Any cheap or easy way to remove guitar pickguard "tanline"?
- Lyon and Healy compatible tuners
- Painting powder coat
- Natural plant based resins in oil-based varnish
- Repositioning Bridge
- New bridge saddle
- Double truss rod
- Old Gibson spot repair
- an experiment in octave mandos
- Going to Woodstock
- Top plate: Exposing the scroll block?
- I would like to replace my rigel nut with pearl.
- 1704 varnish
- Help with finish issue
- set up
- Removing a K&K Twin Spot
- Support you Local Lumberyard
- How Many Builders In Houston
- Bending sides-
- Electric mandolin build.
- Source of bone for bandolim bridges
- Mandocello parts?
- TOH Weber warranty
- Newbie Fret question
- Howe-Orme mandolin repair
- Conversation on Torrefied Wood Tops (NMC)
- Mandolin changing its color with time
- Old Italian mandolin give away
- looking for supplier of black willow preferably near the east
- "H" Bracing for a flat-top Octave Mandolin
- Help with finish recommendations
- National innards
- Where to buy Ebony?
- Mandolin Setuo / Repair Reference for North Texas
- Help Identifying an Issue
- Intonation help
- Amateur repair of loose brace?
- First Build Saga AM-10: Complete, Setup Questions
- Bubbling & Flaking Finish
- David Brown of King Brown Mandolins Brisbane Australia
- Long scale octave mandola bracing
- Renaissance lute and baroque guitar I've built
- Mandolin all cracked up
- Back seam separation,Seattle Luthier or return to seller?
- Plans for "pancake " Mandolins
- Neck shaving
- Buzzing on g string mostly, please help
- Carbon Tenor guitar build
- This is a good one
- Determining Glue Under Bridge
- Fret leveling
- Looking for help contacting Gail Hester
- truss rod nut tight
- Vintage bowlback with cracks in fretboard and top
- Gibson Mandolin A 1902, repairs completed. Up and playing.
- strut fallen inside my Epiphone MM-50E
- Wooden binnding, question
- Martin Mando Finish Repair Q
- free set up guide
- Late medieval lute just finished :)
- Mandocello K-style build
- Tuning machines: whats your favorite and why?
- weymann mandolute replacement bridge
- Is my neck too narrow?
- Setup question
- Gluing ebony to ebony
- Brekke - How Low can it go?
- Broken headstock on Eastman MD515
- The Loar issues
- Finished first build - Thanks for all of the help
- Bind the fretboard, or no?
- Tru oil finish got foggy after 3 years- any ideas?
- edge sander conversion fail
- Celluloid binding victim of Trump’s tariff war
- What’s going on with my Mandolin neck?
- Binding height
- Not a mandolin, but…I built a cello!
- How do they do frets at big factories?
- An possible opportunity to advance purchase some spruce
- Flat Top Mandolin First Build Questions
- Woodworking Supply Store—Houston, TX
- ISO Banjolin Tailpiece
- Source for pre-carved plates
- Silvertone
- need set up near Columbus,ohio
- Advice on Shellac?
- how to fix a tilted mandolin bridge ?
- Your Suggestion(s): Best Way to Remove Titebond
- No-varnish mandolin
- Graham McDonald Flat Top Neck Joint
- NEW Kentucky KM906 - end pin fell out (only owned it 3 months!)
- Soundboard tuning and tone bars/bracing
- Electric Bouzouki Bridge
- Darkening Walnut
- Crumbling pickguard
- Radiused fretboard with straight bridge on a Kentucky
- What Router for Inlay work
- #2- Christmas for Sunshine
- Finish chip on Weber... question???
- options for pickups in Godin A8
- Looking for a mando repair/setup person in Grapevine TX or near
- Don't give up on that repair...
- Mandolin Bridge
- How to Protect the Truss Rod cavity during a mando neck repair?
- F style top plate too thin
- Warped Flat Back Boards
- How not to install a strap button
- Weber no longer producing octave Gallatins.
- Just killed my rotary tool - what to replace with?
- Modern/Irish Cittern
- How do you store your instruments when not playing
- Tap tuning
- Gibson F9 with sunken top
- Help me evaluate a peghead?
- How Long is Long Enough
- Negotiating trades on the Cafe
- F5 neck heel question
- Southwest Virginia Luthier Joe Jackson
- Newbie builder question
- Mandolin Kits
- Stuck tuning pegs
- Radiused Workboard
- Shop Climate
- Kentucky E strings suddenly not able to play B hitting fret above
- Rigel tailpiece problem - help!
- the mysterious slipping string
- new build underway
- Back Plate Center Stripe
- Documenting Instrument Condition ???
- Electric Octave Mandolin Neck
- A 6 course renaissance lute I built
- Dang Thing Busted
- Dyingg the fretboard/peghead black
- Saga kit neck angle
- First Build questions
- Turning endpins without lathe? No problem!
- 20inch OM radiused or not?
- Wood question
- Looking for F-style headstock plate
- height of contour
- Repairing a crack on the cheap
- High E Popping out of the Nut
- Fuzzy notes on the g string
- Theo Kazourian 10 string Bandolim
- Making Real Wood Buttons for Gotoh Tuners...
- How do YOU sharpen your finger planes?
- mandolin builders near me?
- Question about changing tuner buttons
- Mystery Buzz Question
- Ebony point protectors - What adhesive?
- Kit mandolin help
- Would you use this?
- Atlanta Luthier
- Build Question
- Learning to make a bowl back mandolin pt.3
- source for point protectors
- Antique Washburn guitar needs total rebuild. Conversion?
- First build: Scroll binding disaster
- Sand-flee
- String choice
- Quick and Thick Titebond
- Measurements for a bowlback nut?
- About To Finish My First Build
- Old Harmony-made Valencia mandolin
- Dillon Mandolin re-wire?
- James Condino test fixture
- A diifference between Titebond II and Ti tebond III
- illegible parlor guitar label
- Pretty neat way to sharpen chisels and plane irons
- Mountain Acoustics Luthier Invitational
- AMB - Apartment Mandolin Build
- Joining back panel plates
- Radius Sanding Jig
- Medieval gittern
- Redwood Tops????
- Andrew Mowry article
- Water based Finish
- How important is it to get the top halves planed at 90 degrees?
- Dobro repair
- Mandola Builders Question
- Stewmac Kit Question
- Side Spring Back
- Really neat little jig for sharpening small chisels
- Electric griddle bending iron
- Re-saw blade
- Travel / practice mandolin question
- Amateur Build for The Blarney Stoners
- Medieval citole
- Tuners for Vintage Bruno & Son's The Vernon
- Uzbek Rubab
- Mandolin tuning gears
- Carbon fiber mandolins
- finish cracks
- Wax Finish Removal?
- Intonation issue
- found this shop that appears to have old sets of tuners to sale
- First Time Binding Questions
- Long vs short scale setup question
- The String Instrument Craftsman magazine (no mando content)
- vintage photograph inside of repro A1 pick guard
- Mandola and Octive Mandolin Parts for Kits I had made
- plans for next build
- replace adhesive backed sandpaper with this tip
- anyone use these for touching up nitro based finishes?
- StewMac kit?