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- My latest order for classical
- Bridge location on an A5 build
- Cleaning a fretboard
- Polishing Gibson Tailpiece Cover
- Finally built one for myself
- Looking for Luthier, Florida
- Chop vs ringing clarity
- Is The Note On The 5th Fret Of Your Mando’s “A” String a “D”?
- F4 Headstock veneers - ebony?
- Finish issues
- Boomerang Banjo Mandolin
- Ferrules for a Kalamazoo KM-11
- Pick guard
- Spirit varnish vs nitro
- My latest oud, completed today :)
- New builder questions
- Octave mandolin finished.
- Helical head jointer
- Raising 12th fret, worth it?
- Building a Ukulele - NMC
- A potential project or a horrible concept?
- Funky yellowed and cracked finish
- Top Crack Affect on Instrument Value
- Glue for case modifications?
- Eastman 305 Bridge Question
- Set up help
- my homemade mandolin and case
- Siminoff neck joint snafu
- Recurve question
- Back to top tuning?
- Mandolin Authority
- Black Walnut flat-back Mandolin just finished
- finish touch up
- OM Sinking Top
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Orcas Islands Tone woods?
- Minimizing Glue Cleanup When Gluing Plates
- Monty tailpiece *cover*?
- Replacement tuners for 2003 Fender FM-52e?
- Neck angle question
- Very stiff tuners Do Souto Bandolim De Ouro / Octave Mandolin
- Bowlback Mandolin Projection
- OM Flat Top Bridge
- String changing jig
- Needing part of an old bowl back
- Replacement bridge for Gibson A9
- Bridge - Gap vs no gap at base of bridge on an F5 style mandolin?
- Replica bridge and pickguard for teens Gibson A
- What happened to Mike Holmes of Shawnee Creek Mandolins?
- Another Siminoff Neck Joint Question
- My latest build: A medieval gittern
- CNC plate carving service
- Moon Wood
- 60s? Japanese mandolin
- Mohawk Lacquer
- Removing Lignin
- Bridge length?
- Screw-mounting a pickguard(instead of pins)
- Pete Langdell
- Kentucky Mandolin Pickguard Attachment
- First Time StewMac Kit Builder Thankyou!
- plans for tenor?
- Alder ribs?
- Preferred hot hide glue temp
- Atypical top wood?
- Snakehead Fingerboard Width
- What's your preferred staining or dying method?
- Lyon and Healy warped finger rest
- Weymann model 30 banjo mandolin
- Ozark pancake mandolin bridge
- Found a replacement tailpiece cover
- Strap button location
- Another new glue to learn
- Cool Banjo Physics
- Tuner Buttons - Ovation Celebrity MC - 149
- Tuners for my German arch back mandolin
- Lost bit of binding, 1915 F-4
- Oval A
- A style mandola from vertically flipped H model plan?
- How to repair a gap between back plate and binding on 1914 A3
- A-style finished
- Ashbury mandolin neck questions
- More Neck Questions
- Kentucky case covering repair
- Kentucky 2013 finish help
- Quick Question on Eastman Finish
- Naprawa bowlback mandolina gaetano vinaccia 1921
- Scooping the fingerboard and faux frets...
- Tacoma Mandolin Course Spacing
- Dual action truss rod install
- 2 new builds: a gittern and an oud
- Neck reinforcement vs a truss rod
- Only change ONE string at a time!!
- Back to building kits!!!
- Lifting bridge on a cheap acoustic guitar
- How to blend/smooth transition of nitro to bare wood
- Minimum bench plane size
- Cleaning crud on a 1930s mandolin
- What timber is this please ?
- Adjusting the nut - Eastman mandolin
- adding a pickup to a 1927 gibson A
- Harmony Monterey H410 Rescue
- Suitable for a neck?
- Woodsongs
- Repair Ontario
- Likely finish on '30s Chicago mandolin?
- National Triolian tenor guitar tuning gear
- Gal
- Go Bar question?
- Action high - but why, I cry!
- Material vs two part epoxy inlay
- Luthier Needed
- Back contours for an A5
- No frills vs fancier mandolins
- Bentwood Singer Case Repair NMC
- Bentwood Singer Case Repair NMC
- My latest oud
- My first scratch build f5
- Binding has cracks when mounted
- Bridge Question!!!!
- Weird nut on Planet tuners
- Tailpiece Is Crooked
- Correct Bridge Slot Spacing for teens/early 20s Gibson
- Bridge placement for correct intonation
- Rubner A style tuners?
- My First Bowl oud/Lute
- Tuning Machines source
- Top and back run out
- Quality control on Waverly tuners
- Top carves
- Another tru oil question
- seeking advice/connection to builder to re-top an F5
- A colascione and a gittern completed recently
- Replacing soundboard without removing fretboard and extender
- Eastman Opaque Finishes Question
- Need help identifying a problem with my mandolin
- Octave Mandolin nut and bridge spacing
- Building & Learning
- Tailpiece help
- Corroded tailpiece on old bowlback---how to remove??
- Need advice for repairing/restoring FAB banjo-mandolin
- Tight Waverly's
- Building the Double Top Mandolin in the Israeli Style
- A new baroque mandolin
- NE Virginia/D.C. area repair
- Replacement Tuning Knob for a 1980's Kentucky KM-800?
- Left to Right conversion
- Name that wood
- Need you to rebuild a special 50's Gibson mandolin-just a neck-
- Eastman Tailpiece Replacement Available for Free
- Persimmon mandolins?
- Intonation woes
- Drop in Tuner Replacement? Advice needed
- Identify this wood?
- Arch fingerboard for F4
- What did you goof up when building your first mandolin?
- F-5 intonation issue bridge placement
- Tips for repairing bowlback cracks?
- Seeking tailpiece for old bowl back
- What's up with that truss rod?
- Shop questions
- Soon to make my first Mandolin
- H1 Mandola tailpiece
- Apitius Mandolins
- Terada mandolin
- Nut width..
- Cost for refret
- Jabota
- Lower Neck Binding Chipping
- Weber Gallatin Brekke Bridge adjustment?
- Wood ID
- My latest build: An Iranian Barbat
- Old F-Case Repair. Handle?
- 1 of the worlds foremost Luthers shares-all in extreme detail
- Old Gibson A case catch straps
- String spacing for 6 string to tenor guitar modification
- New build, bowl-back modern style Mandolin
- Correct nut files for different string gauges
- General pin or pines moisture meter
- ISO Luthier to carve and install new top
- Warped top. How worried should I be about this?
- I found this…..
- Thank You Peter Coombe!
- New June A style
- Consensus on stew mac's heat stick
- Tone bar placement on an A style
- Japanese black paint touch up
- Banjolin skin/head maintenance and button on resonator wanted
- Tuner Buttons Buzzing
- Truss rod advice
- Breedlove experimental neck joint
- Rec's for Mandolin Repair/Set-Up in the Woodstock NY area ?
- Vintage narrow frets source
- Nut File Size vs String Size
- Information on resonator mandolin
- Music Nomad diamond nut files
- Bandsaw upgrade
- A New Mulerskinner Instruments A5 build starts...
- Dremel - IKEA Flexible LED Light
- Can I get-rid of the end-pin on Godin A8?
- 2006 Collings MF: missing tuner button screw
- over vs under tuners why?
- Is my truss rod broken?
- Mandolin setup
- String attachment on Taropatch, necessarily through the top?
- Bench Heights
- Is this damage serious or cosmetic?
- Bridge gap
- Rob Meldrum's Mandolin Set Up Guide!
- Tuning up a Traditional Brekke Bridge
- Fret sprout question
- Gypsy-Jazz Style Mandolin Plans
- Intonation Mystery
- Acme Bowlback repair
- Need parts
- semi hemispherical fretting
- The first Apitius Era
- Trusted Mandolin Luthiers in Minnesota
- Hairline Cracks under Fretboard
- Sanding sharp bridge edge
- Measuring action: radiused fretboard?
- One instrument to serve two octaves
- Odd buzzing ending at 12th fret
- Tuner for tap tuning
- RIP Barry Kratzer
- Grover tuners
- Am i being unreasonable?
- Cithrinchen or Bell Cittern just completed
- Saddle damage
- Summit Mandolin Company
- Sicilian Luthiers Building Mandolins in 2021
- Pucker in top
- Drum Sander recommendations
- Phoenix Neoclassical owners
- Dove Tail Joint
- 2 piece slab cut back?
- guitar plans
- Oval sound hole and rosette
- source for light weight maple neck wood
- In Praise of Max Girouard
- buzzing - truss rod, setup, or fret leveling?
- Frank Wakefield's mandolin bridge
- Baroque guitar and renaissance vihuela, my two latest builds
- worn top question -- Regal tenor
- Latest Barn Cat Mandolins Flat-Top Build
- Beginner staining & finishing
- Dreadnought build
- Cloth for varnish
- Building the carved top Army Navy AN
- Cracked back on a Flat Top