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- Screws for tuner buttons
- What was your biggest challenge in making an F style mandolin?
- Is it defective ?
- Virzi tone producer
- Played a couple Kuun mandolins, some impressions
- Who can repair a top plate joint?
- Spruce top wood close-out
- My only Mandolin's nut got damaged, what is my best option?
- Baroque mandolin
- Finally Completed!
- Teensie-Weensie little position markers
- Kluson Supreme F Type Gold Mandolin tuners
- Adding side port to mandolin
- Custom compensated bridge?
- point protector material
- problem with an ebony fret board
- Has anyone tried kadence mandolins ?
- Satin Nickel Tuners
- I built 2 F5s and a custom 3 point
- Why carve a plates outside first?
- Need recommendation for clear finish
- Hopin to contact Paul Newson mandolin set up
- Adjustable bridge height.
- 3 models
- Building a tune-o-matic bridge for acoustic mandolins?
- Advice for a pre-professional luthier?
- Octave bridge slot repair
- Tailpiece cover for 1914 Gibson F2
- F5 fretboard extension problem area?
- Brescian or Cremonese mandolin
- Lacquer to varnish?
- Mandolin Bridge Woes
- Tailpiece for Eastman 515
- dents in the neck
- Fret slot size ?
- waterbase lacquer finish suggestions
- looking for help with lowering my action.
- mike for fiddle uses needs no power
- needing help with using leather dyes on a finish. and help?
- Loar tail piece pin
- What's the right tailpiece and finish?
- tuner install
- Can This Be Saved?
- Round vs. pear shape
- intonation fix from string length
- Recommendations for Custom Tailpiece
- Vintage Gibson---Anything Other Than Ebony for a Teen's Gibson
- Pls critique this nut work
- Mandolin Builders output?
- Sunburst practice/test - What happened here?
- fret size on Ovation mcs148?
- Band Saw Re-saw Fences
- Metal saddle for flat top bridge?
- How to make the crack disappear ?
- Inlay colors
- Pick up removal
- One piece bridge
- Marketing and getting your name/brand out.
- SystemThree Epoxy Grain Fill
- Replacing Eastman tailpiece / strap button
- Buzzing at/near the bridge
- Kinda non-mando: volume pot taper issues
- Best Bridge Jig Stew Mac or Cuberland ??
- another contour map question
- Tenor Guitar plans
- Coming unglued-several issues
- About to apply finish on first build....
- Bad tuner?
- Replacing Tuning machines with non-standard distance between pegs
- Madera M200 mandolin.
- Steaming the neck Flatiron A
- new bridge for flat top?
- Another CF reinforcement question
- Loose tuners
- Help! Quick recommendation - Paasche airbrush
- Modern Cittern or Irish Bouzouki just completed
- Fretboard Riser
- The real glue strength
- Glue Strength
- Trim Braces Before or After Gluing?
- Making a Mortise and Tenon / Vertical Router Jig
- source for small piece of well flamed maple for headstock?
- RM-998 Resonator Setup
- Eastman MDO305 Octave Mandolin
- Al Carruth scraper - Sharpening
- Hypothetical Wierd Question ?
- binding separating
- Neck bowing in an odd place
- Quick and dirty electric mandocello conversion
- Collings coversion
- Sorry for this string height question
- Combra mandolin in the classifieds
- Binding problem, any help?
- Transtint Dye for finishing HELP?
- tinting white binding on a french polish instrument
- Ibanez M700 need tuner machines
- Short grain and scrolls
- Scuff and level sanding?
- DePaule Nouveau inlay advice
- Minimum saddle height?
- Old Levin, strings with green felt slugs
- Old Safe-T-Planer, new cutters?
- Bridge problem
- Bridge height
- In Tuneness and Buzz
- My new tablesaw multi-sled
- Removing pick guard (glued?)
- Transplanting a new tenon in a screwed up neck joint
- String not ringing out
- Neck fall away at 12th fret HELP?
- back thickness
- Neck angle for mandola?
- Choice of wood for ribs?
- Fiebing's Leather Dye
- A couple of build questions
- Using Kydex in the Shop - More Anti-social Distancing
- Mandolinetto Build (Bracing?)
- Simple setup ?
- Fret Size Opinions
- Shout out to De Paul Supply
- Convert...
- Some instruments take time to sell
- fretboard support opinion?
- sap wood
- Bridge Misfit
- Gibson F-9 repair project
- Confused about a spirit varnish over a sunburst on first mandolin
- Fretboard repair/install HELP?
- Western red cedar carved top
- corse spacing
- Inside the scroll
- V joint question
- Is this mandolin beyond repairing?
- neck strip
- What if I removed the nitro finish from the sides of my mandolin?
- Removing finish spots all over Regal tenor guitar
- Buffing Tru Oil
- Fretwire and slot help?
- Jumbo frets? 51/100 or 50/100
- new top F hole repair
- I'm Crushed!
- Has anyone ever heard of Country Roads brand mandolins ?
- Grand daughter is a Lefty - Help needed converting RH to LH
- Does this look like an issue?
- Hazelnut tree wood
- Fretboard slot size and tang size
- Useing lacewood
- Tru-oil for finish
- Restoring Kentucky km-200s
- How to inlay my logo
- Bunch mandolin
- Woodley Mandolins
- Celluloid issue, bowlback inlay
- Guitar body octave bracing
- Building a baroque mandolino
- Couple of Novice Questions -
- Gibson F5's from the 70's
- threaded rod size on teens Gibson pickguard mounts?
- Email address request for Rolf Gerhardt (Phoenix Mandolins)
- Neck strength and size HELP?
- Mandolin Setup Walkthrough Videos
- 1950 Gibson A4 Truss Rod pushed in?
- Ibanez M510E Question
- Electric Mandolin Bridge, Tune-o-matic
- Adding mass back to a neck?
- New to the forum
- Saddle and bridge
- Simplified neck construction and strength.
- How do you rip the wood for your ribs?
- Mahogany Neck.
- J Reynolds mandolin tuners
- I'm looking for a $200-$250 Mandolin.
- Curved truss rod?
- Fretboard/bridge/strings geometry
- Center line and neck dovetail offset... Am I in trouble?
- Fret bevel angle, pictures Help?
- Practice cutting dovetails by hand
- Dakota mandola alterations
- Harvey-clone
- No mandolin content. Taylor Guitars story about sourcing woods
- Geltack Glue
- National RM1 biscut troubles
- Truss Rod Question on 1st F-5 Build
- My new automated kerfed lining maching...
- 1911 Calace Mandolin
- HIGH action banjolin
- KM200S Setup / Bridge Height
- Vintage Guitar Mag How-to
- Dye question HELP!
- Antonia mandolin
- Mando Nut - Open A and fretted notes on A string bad
- Re: that spiral mando posted here within the last year
- Mandolin repair
- Buffing lacquer finish?
- Yellowing/dye binding HELP?
- Professional setup
- Gibson Mandola Restoration
- Rattle can laquer
- Radius on saddle HELP?
- Spruce Veneer
- PLEASE HELP! ABS Binding Bending Problems First Time Builder
- That Stitched band around a case lid
- Luthiers! Advice on back seam hairline crack ...
- Sapele end block grain orientation?
- At what point in your build should you avoid heat and humidity
- String spacing at nut HELP? 1 3/16
- Issues with converted mandocello
- Condino Brazilian rosewood mandolin #164
- action at the nut and chords
- Siminoff H4 Mandola Drawings
- String buzz on electric guitar, small neck tilt? How to adjust?
- varnish question
- Time to build?
- KM200S - Is this crack serious?
- F-style case HELP?
- What Do You Think About This Unique 1 Pc. Back?
- Making a Brass Hammer (from plumbing parts)
- Repair question
- Is this scrap?
- Stew mac -- waverly f-style mandolin tuners
- Piccolo Mandolin Building Project
- Pickup Suggestions Please
- Nitro as sealer on distressed build HELP!
- Looking for info about Milan Ulma (Czech Builder)
- Gibson H-2 Mandola Serial 55405 Restoration
- Set up question- intonation on the D string
- Pores Reappearing in French Polish
- questions about a neck build
- String angle over bridge
- looking for 2-point f-hole mandolin plans...
- Can I reuse strings I use for "in the white" stringup?
- Octofone Guitar Company
- Any Experience With Walnut F5 Mandolins?
- Speed neck recommendation
- Fret Files and Other luthier tools?
- F5 peghead tuner holes a la Siminoff.
- Mandola string heights?
- Epiphone MM20, convert to lefty
- Side bracings?
- repair or replace neck block
- Eastman Setup and Other work.
- L&H Model A string spacing
- Luthier in Cleveland, OH?
- Sapele back plate thickness
- 50's Kay Jumbo Restoration
- Small rattle in soundboard...
- Rib re-flexing: How much is to be expected?
- Semi-accoustic Mandolin build + various questions
- black residue?
- "tinny" A string?