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- Top Crack Weymann Keystone Bowlback, How to draw together
- Figlio mandolin repair
- A Successful Failure
- Advice needed on K&K mandolin twin pickup install
- Considering applying a compound radius to my One And Only
- Ritchie Blackmore's octave
- 18" scale length-Help with options
- Feedback: First fret pulling job
- Slot tuners Stiffness Problem
- Bridge Placement
- Truss rod: Too tight? And still a string-ward bow.
- Bowlback repair of missing back strip
- Looking For Morris Tuners
- Sprayed Glue?
- What’s going on with this bridge?
- Big Mandolin With Banjo Tuning
- Aluminum tuner button question
- Strings Catching on Higher Fret
- Morris A4 Has A Surprising Flaw
- Eastman Tuner Button Screws
- bracing patterns for the setar
- Required tools for building own fingerboards?
- Possible Binding Separation?
- Good vs. Bad Satin Finish
- Neck dovetail and truss rod barrel nut
- installing a stew mac truss rod , barrel type
- New builds final Set-up Help?
- Setting a tablesaw fence with digital calipers
- What should I do with this interesting and great sounding mando?
- Gibson A50 reftret -any advice ?
- Virtual Shop Tour(s)... I'll show you mine
- Solid spruce top - What to consider?
- Crack Repair Ebony Fretboard
- Do I need a brace under the bridge?
- Tuner button about to crack?
- First attempt at heat bending: questions
- Darkening Finish After Tru Oil
- Open Back / Old Time Banjos - Comparisons to Mando Builders
- Lowering Insert (Saddle) on Non-Adjustable Bridge
- Deterioration due to closed case
- Hand tool point blocks
- Pickguard Reset on Weymann Bowlback
- How serious is this?
- An extremely dumb question: Ridges on binding
- Scalelength?
- New Vessel Loar A5 tribute
- 1957 Fender Mandocaster Fingerboard Cleanup?
- Mandolin overhaul.
- Adding or replacing binding?
- Pomerory - Don Paine
- Martin Style 15 repair
- Schaller Grand Tune Tuning Keys
- Removing a pickguard/fingerrest
- Should I learn to make bridges while I'm at it?
- Pete Hart, Buckeye Mandolins
- Electric Mandolin Build Help?
- Colouring spruce tops, esp sunburst.
- Finishing question
- Epiphone black finish
- Lefty f-5 case?
- two frets sound the same/newbie restringing problems
- Hybrid electric
- Post-setup: 15th+ fret buzz
- Unusual maple grain pattern
- Antique frets and 12 string tailpiece
- Vibratone Venetian Style Mando
- top deflection
- Finding Parts for Banjolin
- Transfers and Tru oil
- neck bow
- Time to practice hand rubbed sunburst
- how do you clean your files?
- refinish top
- Seeking vintage tenor guitar neck for a project
- Block in-lays.
- Installing K&K Twin With Hide Glue
- Collings MTO: replacement tuners?
- Possible Cracked neck?
- Making a Measuring Wheel
- 1957 EM200 disintegration of tuner buttons
- Weber Yellowstone, 2011, Mandola, strap pin on heel
- A question for luthiers - from a non-luthier
- Airbrush question.
- Spruce and maple avg. weights
- Shop Helpers
- Haze in French polish
- Rib assemblies too small?
- Rogue mandolin has no braces
- Ready built electric mandolin necks?
- Convert Grover 309N Tuners to Worm Under?
- New Build: 13 inch scale Flat-Top
- Staining spruce to avoid blotches and unevenness
- CNC Endmill Recommendations
- Bug spray Lacquer repair
- Tru-Oil Vs. Crimson Guitar Penetrating oil
- Wood identity question
- Measuring arch height
- Trouble with Top Cracks
- Redtip wood?
- any A5 conversion pics?
- Waterlox Marine High Gloss
- Pre cut fretboard supply - UK
- bigger fret wire size
- Binding methods
- Granite in the shop
- Does my mandolin need some kind of adjustment?
- buying tonewood
- Mandocello Mystery of the Dead C Strings
- sound post experiment
- Where's Ben Wilcox?
- Refretting
- mandobass plan
- Problem E strings
- 1914 gibson H1 mandola sagging top, and bowed neck
- OM Neck dimensions
- Refinishing a Flatiron F5?
- Schaller tuner replacement
- Mother-of-Pearl nut?
- String Geometry
- Stew-mac prices
- Info on this Mandolin
- Bridge saddle repair - which glue to use?
- Video Northfield Big Mon Engelmann vs Red Spruce Top - help?
- Bowl Back Mandolin needing some TLC
- Aesthetic Question for Builders (and Buyers)
- Rocklite Ebano fingerboards
- Ideas for what could be rattling on Mandolin!
- How to clean and polish Varnish on my New Pava Pro
- Some questions/concerns about bar frets
- Messed up my bridge/saddle ...
- Binding alternative
- How do I raise the nut height on a banjolin
- Bridge for 1912 Gibson "A": seeking info
- James Tailpiece Review
- Repair Estimate too High?
- Pantograph
- F hole crack repair
- Vega Bowl Back
- inlay design
- truss rod cover issue
- Intonation compensated saddle question
- Material for bending straps
- Is there a particular method for sawing fingerboard wood?
- Bending quilted big-leaf maple
- new member, old mandolin
- Douglas fir
- Re-glueing vintage pick guard/ body clamp
- First builds finished at last.
- Gotoch tuner install Question
- Givens Saddle - custom size?
- Odd headstock repair
- What's your Spraying set up?
- Installing Grover 309N Tuners on an Eastman 305......It was easy
- truss rod install
- Dating a Ratliff
- Another odd headstock repair - and loss
- Repairing Veneer on an 8-string Kentucky
- Gibson String Height
- Top repair patch
- glue for temporary attachment of copper inlay
- Assessing wood grain of standing trees
- New top for a Washburn M2
- Identify Vintage Mandolin Banjo
- Lilac wood
- Question about scale lengths and tuning...
- bandsaw blade recommendations
- Top strength/Tuning stability
- Electric Mandolin Buzzing
- Tailpiece broke
- Repairing and refinishing old Stradolin
- Spirit Varnish for a mandolin?
- No pickguard finish scratches
- Question if I may.
- New Eastman Octave tuners?
- Half a mandolin question
- Building a higher-end replica Taylor GS-Mini guitar (NMC)
- Exposed Bushings
- Restoring a 1930's National resophonic mando
- Gibson 1916 K-1 Mandocello pickguard specs
- Kimble Trio
- Cutting Shellac for sealing
- Need a new neck and head block
- Cohen Classical Mandolin
- Anyone seen this before
- Howe-Orme mandolinetto neck joint.
- From Rough Carving to Finish Sanding
- Fixtures for repairing separated backboards
- Pickup replacement for Fender FM61SE electric?
- Ups insurance a ripoff
- Do you know anyone who has fixed sunken Vega tops?
- Alternative Neck Profile Shapes
- Bridge for El Dega Mandolin
- Mandola cases
- Easy small modification to Eastman 305 fretboard extension
- One string buzz/rattling
- Octave Mandolin -
- Anyone know what the old flatirons were finished with?
- Buffing under the fretboard extention
- Shout-out for Luthier Steve Holst
- Lyon & Healy vs Gibson
- Finger Planes
- Eastman 305 strap button--friction fitted?
- Ant. Mossimo bowl back mandolin
- F-hole re-enforcement
- Looking for a repair person, north Jersey, NYC
- Waverly tuner repair
- Fiebing's red leather dye
- Buzz on Open D Strings
- Fret popping up on my new mandolin
- Drilling peghead for tuners.
- 'V' neck Gibson refret advice
- Compatibility of Grover A 309 Tuning Machines with Kentucky mando
- Repair tech in Sarasota, FL?
- Mandocello nut
- Giraffe Bone Nuts
- Recently closed thread
- Improving action by sanding non adjustible bridge and reslotting
- In Conversation with Arik Kerman - an interview
- Luthier for Mandolin setup in Southeast PA?
- Exotic Canary Wood F5 Back
- Can a Luthier fix this?
- Mandolin repair luthier in Charlotte NC area?
- Repairing varnish finishes
- Identification of headstock finish problem
- Quint Mandolin
- Looking for Gary Vessel
- Epoxy pore fill and sunburst
- Kentucky Mandolin KM-805 new neck available?
- David Russell Young (NMC)
- Detached back
- Electric pickup noise at part volume.
- Collapsed Washburn
- A small reanissance mandore
- Renaissance cittern with 1/4 comma meantone fretting
- My latest oud
- A medieval lute
- Refinishing a German Bowlback mandolin
- Not a mandolin, but finish question
- Two Point Mandolin
- Next Adventure In Binding
- Washburn Mandola Question
- Could a broken truss rod cause a buzz?
- Kentucky km-180 spare parts
- Repairer recommendation required
- OM strings
- Very strange intonation
- L/F recommendation: mandolin set-up & repair in So. Calif.
- Best paper towel for staining & finishing?
- Mildewed Instruments
- Compensated bridge question