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- Hughes F-5 #8
- Correct screws, to attach bracket to Gibson pickguard?
- what glue to use on 70yo mando w/ previous repairs?
- A couple of new instruments
- Tailpiece busted - is this normal?
- Binding router
- Stewmac router binding jig - experiences anyone?
- Tenor Guitar Tuners NMC
- Hagerty #7 fresh off the bench
- Cutting Pearl
- How to Set Up a Mandolin -Rob Meldrum
- The Gibson No.6069
- In need of repair: Peter White mandolin
- Irish bouzouki damaged in transit
- Quick shop pic
- ISO 2-Point Builder
- Celluloid laser cutting
- If I can build an archtop guitar, can I build an A-style mandolin
- 1964 Guild 1964 F-30 Special Brazilian Rosewood
- 6-on-a-plate 12 string tuners
- Bridge string spacing on Breedlove
- peate mandolin binding on edge of fingerboard loose
- Is Nu Finish Scratch Dr. bad to use on a Tru-Oil finish?
- looking for Luthier near Atlanta, GA
- Bowlback top shrinkage repair
- Can't wait to finish my guitar
- National Polychrome Neck removal question.
- Shading a spruce top
- How to polish metal parts on mandolin.
- Mandolin leather case restoration
- Info on builder
- Slotting a nut
- Guitar backstripe question
- Collings Shop Tour Video
- Turning an acoustic into a (semi) solid body electric?
- Damaged sigma mandolin
- Free to a good home
- What’s going on with my finish? (NMC)
- Octave in tune but lower frets are not?
- UV cure finish issues
- Making fretboard inlay dots
- Inherited renovation
- New Tuners for Vintage F2
- Banjolin tailpiece replacement
- Bridge post sources
- Guess the finish
- Fret Wire Questions
- Catalyzed Varnish Repair
- Older Barnes & Mullins Flatback - missing tuner key
- Shim for Bridge Insert.
- Non-mandolin question: Archtop, violin building references
- Virzi build plans?
- Fixing wire loops onto Nylon (fluorocarbon?) strings.
- Older Barnes & Mullins Flatback - a couple of cracks / splits
- Fine-tuning rim bending
- Removing "Touch-Up" from a Spruce Top
- Preferred wire cutters?
- Customer selecting specific woods for custom build
- RIP: John Morton. Metal luthier master
- Truss Rods vs Carbon Fiber?
- Tips for bending/fitting the F5 bottom point rib piece?
- Mandolin from a kit
- Looking for Luthier in central Illinois
- Tenor guitar hairline crack
- Looking for a bridge
- Tone-Gard Alternative
- Supertone Mandolin
- Flattop Top Thickness?
- Bindings and strings.
- Machine tuning - bushings don't fit
- Making a bridge setting jig - good idea or not?
- What tools do I need ?
- F5 scroll "ridge" - Distance from the side
- Replacing Tuners
- Recurve too thin?
- Building a new double-top mandolin by Yaron Naor
- Drilling out the top
- How to achieve a "warmer" sound?
- Where are the ' Big guys ' ?
- Tone bar question
- Refurbishing my old Stewart MacDonald (kit) mandolin
- Looking to have some pearl inlay work done.
- Neck Block Materials
- Fitting a backstrap overlay
- String sizing and tension for an OM
- Equipment advice please
- Kelley A-V-5 advice needed
- Fretting sharp on the 12th fret E string
- Luthier in Northern VA/DC Area
- Rigel Mandolins not responding emails - tailpiece question
- NC luthier
- Aaargh . . .
- Danger of imitating an inlay logo/brand?
- Converting left hander to right
- Atlanta Mandolin Luthiers
- A5 build plans
- ZETA acoustic mandolin question
- Replacement tailpiece for a Gibson A 5 jr
- mandolin tuner buttons for Godin EM
- ISO - luthier in Oakland County, MI
- Loose tuner knob
- Cleaning up after an outgassed celluloid pickguard
- Screw size for Gotoh tuner mount?
- Winning combination
- Top plate crack at bridge
- Resource - Finding a Luthier
- Casting your own tailpiece
- Engraving services
- String set gauge for 1927Regal flattop mando
- My latest build: A renaissance cittern
- George Houghton Model 7S nut
- Indian Ebony
- Collectiing the dust from exotic woods
- Gluing in frets?
- For those that want to build a bass fiddle (NMC)
- chisels
- Eastman Truss Rod Question
- Bryan Kimsey
- Neck relief
- Wood Identification
- K&K internal twin installation on new Eastman MD505 CC
- Truss rods
- Can I "dull" a shiny area on a matte-finish Eastman?
- Vintage Case Handles
- Loose “traditional style” tailpiece cover
- Phoenix Mandolins
- Mandolin Build RAG Mandolins
- Chafin Electric Mandolin
- Lee Elliott Mandele
- First Time Builder
- Quality tuners for F style - opinions welcome
- A child's size oud
- A medieval citole
- Top Plate Carving/Graduation Questions
- Earthwood Mandola Repair
- My latest renaissance lute
- Is the position of the braces on a mandolin important?
- how to rip binding strips from celluloid sheet stock
- New builder
- Sealing a sprayed sunburst
- Ovation MCS148 info
- Graduation for Saga AM-10?
- Playing hard... and staying in tune
- Shipping a mandolin for repair / setup work !
- Question about CA glue
- Olive wood for mandolin body?
- Restoring a Kay "Lyre" Guitar
- Bar frets
- Flat tops, break angle and action height
- Finish delaminating National RM-1
- Looking For An Electric Tenor Guitar Builder
- About new fretboard for old Gibson A jr.
- KM-1500 neck issue
- Best way to fix this bowed neck?
- Narrow nut channel for truss rod
- Help please!!!! Messed up pretty bad
- A jig to make ukulele necks
- Finish impact on resonance?
- What oils do you use if you use oils
- Plans for mandolin etc
- Model 1 New Tailpiece
- Looking for a US luthier that does bowlback restoration
- non resonant note
- Four string octave/baritone mandolin
- New Mandolin Style
- Dead Fret?
- Beginner Lessons in Western Suburbs of Chicago, IL
- Mandolin plans inquiry - Baroque, Brescian
- Screw hole in veneer to big
- Mandolin restoration Ireland
- Old Banjo Mandolin. - skin tension
- Weird problem with a cheap mandolin
- A drum sander with a twist
- Sorensen VX
- Luthiers in Eastern/Central Montana and Northern Wyoming
- Luthiers/setup in Hawaii - Big Island?
- Floating Top Guitar, very interesting.
- Bell Brand tailpiece for Regal Tenor guitar
- Lacquer cracking at neck heel
- Hide glue question
- My latest build: a vihuela de mano
- nylon stringed mandolin
- How Many Use Thickness Sanders vs Hand Tool Methods?
- Use of Oak in instruments?
- Warped bridge saddle
- Carbon Fiber for an adjustable bridge saddle
- Shellac containers?
- Non-musician Luthiers
- fret marker positions
- milling maple blanks
- Distance between string pairs, the same or wider at bridge?
- Stradolin Period Parts Looking for Help and advice
- Truss Rod Wrap
- Making a Portable Spindle Sander
- EVO frets after 10 years
- Headstock drilling jig.
- Pulling a fret
- removable back
- String compensation question
- Guitar binding repair in Austin
- Waverly's on an Older Red Diamond A
- Octave Mandolin fixed bridge compensation?
- Raising the action on my MT
- Mando/ Harp WW2 Fell apart
- Queen Elizabeth Trust apprentice luthier scholarships
- Elixir Enhanced Strings with CBD/THC
- adjustable bridge with different side height
- Stain in top wood
- Need replacement tailpiece for Kentucky KM1500
- hot-rod frankenstein upgrades to my "new" '80 Epiphone mandolin
- Intonation problem : half step down
- Finish question on 40's Strad-O-Lin?
- How much will final sanding take off the top?
- For the adventurous builder
- 1919 Gibson A - loose tuning knob
- JD Hall builder
- Grandfathers Gibson A3 Mandolin
- Building Bridges
- James Tailpiece on Eastman MD 515?
- Finally got it playable
- Classical / Neopolitan Mando Builders in North America?
- two part epoxy
- Tail piece repair
- Looking for Indiana Luthier
- Latest build completed today: a renaissance guitar
- Making a Wood Bending Iron
- Unique Ball End to Loop End conversion
- Non instrumental glue questions
- Planer set up?
- Flames Birch on sale
- Rubner tuning machines
- Stahl Mandolin
- Interesting CNC violin build
- The back and top join
- Douglas fir
- Cleaning gunk off a nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Shop dust
- My latest baroque mandolin
- B-compact acoustic double neck mandolin and guitar
- Flame maple board
- Seeking Octave Mandolin Plans and Advice
- Need advice
- Is this a serious concern?
- Curly maple wow
- A new Art Deco inspired mandolin
- Getting near the finish line.
- scraping celluloid bindings
- Just some wood
- Tuning machine planks with 1" spacing?
- And another new A style mandolin