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- Mycowood
- Replacement Tuner Buttons
- do you hammer or press your frets-do you use glue?
- Testing my new Resp-O-Rator
- Gibson A12 to F conversion
- Abandoned instruments???
- Pinched E strings
- Best way to secure end pin?
- Newbie Identify and help with parts
- Question from Newbie on Bozouki scale length
- Reamer for Grover Tuner Bushings
- Need Refrence for Fret Replacement in North Texas
- Inexpensive Bridge on Elderly
- Low/No budget DIY mandolin making tools
- sounds like an octave mandolin at 3 min-awesome wood bench
- 2 Fret Questions
- Nut slot fix.
- V joint
- Searching for a luthier
- Wide Nut Question
- Saga Kit Build
- break angle and string tension
- tapered peghead, how to fit bushing
- Incra Measuring Tools
- how much steam to remove a mandolin back
- 1920s or 30s Weymann Mandolute varnish
- Help for Repair of Kay 1960's Mandolin (neck reset and crack)
- Thanks Bill James
- Oak? Or What?
- non-builder question re. wood and ivory bindings
- A renaissance mandore I just finished
- Shellac finish problems on new mandolin
- Rigel tailpiece
- Advice on first mandolin building kit/tutorial
- Best way to attach K&K pickups
- Newbie Builder - Getting started - which books/tutorials
- Loose tailpiece cover
- Question about resawing a wedge for a soundboard
- Shellac flakes, which alcohol?
- strap peg
- Potentially dumb question: Reverse tapered dovetail?
- Got my shellac flakes! Question about color build up.
- Does this A-1 top look ok?
- Using inside spanners in forms
- First Mandolin Build Thread
- Just Finished
- Setup guide?
- Armrests? magnets?
- Repairing an ugly side gouge/hole?
- Martin guitar bridge reglue job
- mando set up Rob Meldrum
- CF and wood?
- Really, why not? (A rumination on necks and joints)
- Kay Mandolin repair by Brad
- Looking for mandolin fret repair in Atlanta
- CA Glue Advise
- Mando Fret work in SF/Marin?
- Tuner preferences?
- New nut and Bridge
- CITES and Macassar Ebony
- Tuner question
- need mando refret rochester/Syracuse area
- Snakehead Drawings
- string load in lbs
- Blotchy after sanding
- Help! Tuning peg issue
- Machine Head Upgrade Question
- Small area on red Spuce acting like black hole for sealer
- Nut Width for OM
- thickness needed for F model top
- Adjustment for Eastman Tuning Pegs
- Late medieval lute
- Top and Back Thickness Before Joining
- A Titebond Glue Question
- F5 and F4
- Nut question
- NEWS FLASH: Titebond changes date code!
- Renaissance cittern just finished
- Martin luthier needed in Southern MD area
- do you use any type of jig to cut nut slots
- Bridge angle to fingerboard or top ? Arching
- Octave Mandolin deflection tunning
- Pecan as tone wood?
- Richlite bridges
- What binding to get?
- Replacement for Eastman Mandola Tailpiece
- Orrico tailpiece
- what is your preferred way to bend fretwire for radius boards
- Joint Fitting assistance
- Introducing myself
- Top wood
- About those magnetic arm rests ...
- side thickness
- Fret Dressing?
- Smith Creek F-5, H-5 and A-5 Plans/Drawings
- Bending Sides
- flat fret stock
- 1902 Luigi Embergher Soloist Model Number 5 Mandolin
- truss rods
- Chris Baird info?
- Finish checking or how lacquer was dried/applied?
- Torrified wood
- Filling Ebony Nut Slot?
- Old banjo fretboard question (no mando content)
- Not mine.....is this bad?
- Traditional or modern design, what's your strategy ?
- Question for builders
- Narrow tall frets?
- inlay material, and where to get it
- STRAD needs a little help
- Check out the old "repairs" in this guitar
- Northfield Nick
- Florida Fret Removal
- I must've done something wrong......
- Glue masking
- Help me understand mortise and tenon neck joints
- Saga AM-10 A style mandolin kit
- Many apologies!
- Snakehead Buzz
- A plans,
- 12 String Mandolin
- Advice on Sinking Top and Bowed Neck on Vintage F-5 Loar Copy
- Regal bowl back repair
- Looking for wooden strap button
- Who makes their own truss rods?
- Why use a heel cap?
- set up question: action vs. tone
- Eastman MD 805 & Schaller GrandTune A style tuners
- Binding question
- Kit question
- Gibson Army Navy label source?
- Go Down Memory Lane
- block inlay
- K4 style Mandocello plan now available
- A jarana jarocha I built
- case cover project?
- Mandolin sound changing over time
- truss rod slot cut
- Ten String Electric Thinline Design
- 1928 H-1 bridge information needed
- Finished at last
- deflection jig
- International Violin F5 Kit Questions
- DFW luthier?
- Shop organization, layout suggestions
- Bandolim Plans
- safe removal of inlay to be routed
- how to get perfect compensation, tool perhaps?
- Lacquer for first mandolin?
- Sunscreen and mandolin finishes
- Replacing Violin Fingerboard
- quick question about a stew mac straight truss rod
- How do you install an endpin?
- Wood sources in Ireland
- Finger plane question
- Tailpiece Stud anchors
- Fretbars on a Tatterbug
- Unfinished scrolls
- Recommendations for a ruined(?) finish
- Wood Bending Irons on Ebay
- ebony filler for inlay
- laminating binding
- Found a great luthier in the Bay Area
- cnc and or router pantograph
- Tailpiece out of alignment
- new lesson , (painful) every day
- Cleaning up Superglue and metal corrosion on old Bowlback
- ASIA Symposium 2019 mandolin building workshops
- Source for f style worm over tuners
- Replacement tuners for an Eastman MD404 ??
- String slot size in mandolin nut
- Local spruce + tonewood suppliers in the Adirondacks?
- Non-mandolin question (electric guitar)
- Question about glue
- binding channel cutting options
- What the heck just happened?
- Eastman 304 fretboard extension
- Truss rod soda straw?
- Stew-Mac style A kit build
- acetone and ABS plastic
- Necks
- Cleaning Mold From Inside a Guitar?
- Thanks to Rob Meldrum!
- Detailed plans for a dovetail neck joint jig
- Noisy finish ???
- I built a colascione!
- Noob question: Nut and bridge
- Bridge "leaning" toward peghead
- Bridge sizes vs tone
- Do you think this is a loose neck joint
- How to repair this broken head stock ?
- My first mandolin
- about gluing in a fret
- A Georgian Panduri (ფანდური) I built
- How do you clean dried CA glue out of fret slots?
- Replacing the Tailpiece on my Flatiron (would like original)
- 2 way truss rod for a mandola
- 10-20 drum sander abrasive roll tip
- So, I have to bend this tailpiece I bought?
- Bouzouki pin bridge to floating bridge conversion?
- looking for sources for binding, (non cell)
- Bridge for a solid body mandola
- Starter Tools
- Electromagnetic output from pickups
- Waverly reversal?
- Sides "denting" under tension?
- Fret setup.
- Fret board lube and strings
- `In the White` Kenscope.
- Can we talk about tuning mechanisms for a sec?
- Mandolin Build kit on stewmac.com
- my complete guitar restoration (July-2019)
- Rounding edges when not binding
- luthier in the SoCal/Inland Empire area??
- Hardwood tops
- IV "In the White" F5 model
- the saddle
- Metallic String Buzz
- (Godin A8) Pickup battery runs out very quickly
- on doing a sunburst
- Now what do I do?
- Mandolin Luthier Recommendations NY/NJ/PA
- Using pine, other "non-spruce" woods...
- TurboPlane, Safe-T-Planer - Powering through plate carving
- ToneRite
- USA mandolin, sinked top repair
- How would you do this?
- Laquer over tru oil ?
- Broken Headstock Curl
- Help!!! Sanding High Gloss Down to "Satin"
- Cutting an F4 sound hole - Walkthrough?
- on finishing, ( finally)
- Dremel attachments
- Built a tenor guitar
- Modified Rogue RM-100A
- tuner sale stew-mac
- stew mac sale on tuners
- How frustrating! Just my luck!
- Zero Glide Nut System
- Side bending. Is this worth saving?
- Flattening a radiused board
- ES Arch Top Guitar Octave Mandolin conversion
- Best suited cast tailpiece
- inside the instrument
- Removing the Florida extension
- A question about guitar bridge pins
- Question on end pin 1/4 jack placement
- OM Rib Height
- Solved a buzzing problem on my Ratliff
- 1920s mandolin identification