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- Flatiron Performer 1995/1996 volume?
- Do you have a screw loose? are your buttons buzzing?
- Set Up on an Ibanez MS-10
- DIY Speed Neck? Advice Needed
- Mando setup in London UK
- Glue for lose binding on finished instrument
- Eastman Octave Mandolon Tailpiece
- harmonic (?) truss rod buzz
- Luthiers in Atlanta?
- IV A Style Mandolin Build - Back plate question
- Luthier Long Island/NYC
- Newly carved Guitar shaped Octave Mandolin top Buzzing
- mayhem in the music room
- 1/4 inch End Pin Jack Recommendations
- Experimental Mini Electric 4-String MINI-lin!
- Neck Bow
- Stupid(?) question re: resawing wood
- Ideas re: mostly solid body mandolin w/flat top 3/8" above
- New White Face mandolin
- My 'Customized' Eastman MD-315
- Tone wood Backs
- My 4th mandolin build, 2nd one built from scratch
- Refret for Gibson F9
- Fret level after 10 months
- Replacing Tuners on 1930's Mandos
- Satin NC lacquer how to advice needed
- Advice needed for this seam separation
- White Stained Mandolins?
- Where Sitka spruce grows
- High end Northfields versus other $8-12k mandos
- 20 inch OM intonation and setup?
- Broken bearing block on tuning machine - can I glue/solder it?
- Crack~say it isn't so!
- Heads up! Nitrocellulose products dwindling
- Bridge parallel to the top or the strings ...
- musical instruments exempt from cites rosewood
- Straighten a Neck - No Truss Rod
- Need suggestion on removing bad finish from a build.
- Combination sound hole and a special carve?
- Harp guy?
- IV kit description question
- How to fix a bowed neck on classical guitar or ukulele ?
- a little help here
- Soundboard transducer and internal cable noise
- suggestions/thoughts for someone wanting to learn inlay work
- IV A Style Kit Binding Channel
- Help with IV mandolin kit
- My International Violin A-Style Build
- Toxicity of finishes
- Cracked Bridge
- Is there "ideal" neck relief?
- Alternatives to celluloid binding in Europe
- Small top crack repair
- V-shaping a C or round shaped neck
- I am totally bummed out
- A12 to F5G part 2
- Bridge Pin Reamer
- Cracked banjo headstock
- Do they fit
- Finally did it! 1895 C.A.Kisslinger BowlBack Mandolin restored
- EMando Bridge. The hard way.
- 1930s? Salvador Ibanez neck joint
- Shade Tree Mando Repair
- Best general purpose paint sprayer also for mandolin finishes
- Latest build electric mandolin
- Mandocello question
- 1915 Gibson A Pickguard issue
- Binding laminate
- KC area Luthier suggestions for 3" crack/ top of my Northfield
- tailpiece cave-in
- staining
- Rigel tailpiece replacement
- Eastman MD515 tailpiece replacement
- One more banjo question
- Klusons
- L&H Model A vrs Gibson Construction differences
- Mojo on beloved Daley mandolin
- Solving unexpected problems
- Advice for Tuners
- Martin vs D'Addario Strings
- Pre Gibson Epiphone Mandolin
- broken case handle
- Trying to contact Martin Brunkalla
- Finally done!
- Renaissance lute and mandore
- Classical Guitar to Tenor conversion questions
- Bass guitar stays quiet !!!
- Five String Electric Octave Mandolin Project
- Zero GLide Nut
- A question on a Century of Progress Gibson LC Guitar.
- Measuring the top/back through soundhole.
- Dots or no dots
- On the search for a fingerboard
- Plexi for templates
- How To File A Fret
- Bowed neck issue
- Archtop guitar neck repair advice (no mando content, sorry)
- A new book on ukulele building
- Early medieval lute and kwitra
- Refinishing the top: pros and cons
- A request of builders
- Nitrocellulose safe instrument stands
- StewMac kit
- Meyer mandolin
- I have a superton, what next?
- Tenor Banjo --> Mandocello
- Ring - Concave / Convex Pliers for Bending Binding
- crack in top, F model
- Zero fret repair
- Which bridge should I get?
- What are these bridges called?
- Getting the Gallatin look
- Stiff tuning pegs
- Attaching pickguard w/ velcro
- Binding repair
- Truss rod angle and depth
- Old reddish / pink glue? (NMC)
- lacquer problem
- Vihuela de mano / Viola da mano
- Wayne guitar (no mando content)
- Liquid hide glue using salt?
- Glue for Randy Wood pickguard
- Extended length drill bit
- High action - is this fixable?
- A Question to the community
- Ibanez M522 top collapsing
- 5 String Electric String Spacing?
- Resonator mandolin repair
- EM-150 questions
- How to adjust the bridge on a fanned fret 10 string mandolin?
- A-String Buzz
- Wrinkling purfling
- Olive oil staining on top?
- Mike Otis (NY) contact info?
- Setup work needed
- Fret Slot Depth
- What should i'l buy to clean the neck and the frets?
- Colortone nitrocellulose lacquer
- Brescian/Cremonese mandolin body dimensions
- Hacked, Dude construction pages down
- Top and back graduations
- Nitrocellulose reactions with tuning machines
- Action vs clarity
- Fan-fret mandocello build
- Just Installed a New Truss Rod Cover
- TC Octave top bracing
- Quick French Polishing Question
- Improve playability on budget mandolin
- First repair - all advice welcome
- Traditional Bridge w/ piezo
- Stephen Fearing's New Manzer Cowpoke
- Bridge and Tail Piece Recomendations
- Gibson mandolin face repair needed.
- Don MacRostie & Red Diamond mandolins
- Buzzing Single Open E String
- Anyone seen a build like this before: Custom guitar
- Warps in bent sides
- A Pointless Repair
- Nut Slots Cut Too Low
- New here, hello.
- Broadway mandolin
- proper fret dress
- Engraver for inlay, carving
- New member, old Gibson.
- Truss rod or not?
- How to lower action - old Gibson A1. Top or bottom of bridge?
- Next-generation Wood?
- Dry Bending Sides
- Opus mandolin
- String spacing
- Top bracing a Gibson EM150
- Stripped screw on case
- Brescian/Cremonese mandola
- Gibson A model Heel Cap Gap.
- Fret size on Kentucky KM-950
- Preparing for a Tru-Oil Finish
- First pickguard Attempt
- Ditson Victory.. in need of TLC, need advice
- Broadway mandolin
- Hi from a newbie.
- Broadway2 mandolin photoshoot
- The Ghost Mandolin
- Vintage Tiple Restoration
- "New techniques" for instrument restoration (NMC)
- Fender 5 string electric mando
- Effect of storage on a mandolin
- James Mandolin Tailpiece
- Ivoroid picguard material
- Woodsong's Lutherie
- Collings MTO Honey Amber gloss top
- knot in top
- Making Head block for F5. " the old fashioned way"
- What do you see?
- Fret markers
- Advice for Sound board flexibility.
- Another renaissance vihuela de mano I've just completed
- Repair broken 'floating' tail piece on 10-string Gypsy Mandolin..
- inlaying on wood other then ebony, ( lighter color)
- curly maple wood description
- Carbon Fiber Straight D tube?
- Satin-nickel plating?
- Sliding Door Side Port, CBOM Makers?
- Point protectors
- maple finishing tips?
- filling fret wear
- Tuner adjustments
- How much of a concern should this be?
- Fret board slotting
- Couple of strings going out of tune regularly. Machine heads?
- Tang Width on a Loar 520 for new frets
- Book disappointment
- Levin brace info
- Looking for set up in Washington
- Is this old Washburn worth restoring?
- Constantine Wood Dyes
- Best place in Chicago for repairs
- Changing hardware on Collings mandolin
- Bridge suggestions for 2000 flatiron festival f5
- Pickup options for an F hole octive mandolin
- Good Mandolin set up in Houston
- italian spruce
- Another carbon fiber question
- Scale length for an octave mandolin build
- Old Wave Mandoins & Bill Bussmann
- peghead overlay
- Overclock your mandolin?
- loose (?) frets
- 7 course renaissance lute
- 1948 Martin 2-15 Repair Questions
- Couple of Mandolin F Build questions
- Reducing chrome Grover F tuner shine.
- Fixing a bent tailpiece
- Pearl Nut - Low slots for G strings
- Lutherie Part of an Innovative Program
- Upgrading a tailpiece
- Flatiron 1N neck joint?
- inlay replacement problem
- Collings scooped fretboard extension
- How does this happen to a 1924 A-2 at the factory?
- Rogue A Style Tuner Upgrade
- New OM build maple neck questions
- Stanley Mandolins
- New Windsor banjo
- Which bridge?
- Saddle Fail
- torrified wood woes
- SG style electric build Walnut
- Krishot # 224
- 7th fret problem
- 6 course early renaissance lute