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- Fitting tone bars
- maple question
- Oval hole mando with tone bars?
- F-5 tuners
- Help "E" String is #
- Bending sides with steam
- Figure Ehancement
- Hand Crafted Tuner Buttons
- Thinking of replacing tuners
- Shape at the "end" of the tone bar
- strap button on heel of an A style
- IV #Binding
- Shape free side tone bars before/after glueing ?
- Matte Finish
- string buzz
- Tonal "Tweaks"
- Got Some Scrap?
- ColorFX Dyes
- Sunbursting
- What About (Off) White?
- Ebony binding was quite a task
- Mandolin kit?
- Rossman F-5
- Bandsaw ? again
- Need help on what colors to combine
- Brideges
- HOW DO YOU ALL DO IT?!
- Tone bar patterns
- Help with sanding quilted maple
- Other neck sets & Angles Part 2
- removing compression marks
- Illicit flamed maple
- Will glue and clamps do it?
- Time to glue the back on....
- Deconstructing Stella
- Guess I was building Rigel style
- new respect for builders
- Tru Oil & Sunburst
- how do you get the headsatock so shiney?
- Wacky Idea ! ?
- Bending iron on a shoe string budget
- Seam separation
- Stew Mac Kits For Sale?
- Increasing the figure with the dye
- Side height
- Clamping tone bars with IV kit (rim on)
- Pickguard
- Bridge Position
- modified recurve
- .125" celluloid for repro vintage pickguards?
- Garage with no climate control in NC
- ok, we're coming down the home stretch
- Behlen laquer
- Seasoned old-growth redwood
- sinking top
- Question about end pin
- Cutting billets
- Maple
- headstock binding
- Flat top bridges
- Set-up
- Need a Definition/Explaination
- Can I do this?
- Grover tuners
- Distressed MM for my 2001
- Nuts in the white!
- oud bridge repair
- Here's my IV Kit, strung up, in the white...
- Block height
- Stiffening Plates
- Another Buzz
- Quick plaster mold
- Need a work bench
- Help with a screw
- Young Luthiers, Old Luthiers
- Looking for Dudenhostel Page
- Neapolitan top repair
- Finishing
- Iwata airbrush
- Japanese water stones
- How close in cents is acceptable Intonation?
- varnish finishes
- mother of pearl nut
- CBOM Construction
- Plate edges
- f-holes
- Fretboard problems
- recurve
- Filling Maple
- The Mighty Scroll
- a bridge way too high
- New Problem For Me
- rosette question
- electroplating specs
- Question about fitting neck in IV kit
- I hate to be a pain
- Built a workbench yesterday (pics included)
- Critical Tools for kit building
- Bowl Back
- F4 NUT
- Pickguard
- How to tell kinds of spruce
- Grading lumber
- Glue, Horrible Glue
- Update on my bridge question
- finish questions-can it be improved easily?
- Big Gulp
- which glue for a headstock scroll repair ?
- stripping neck on finish
- How to "really" sharpen a knife?
- Glue for IV Kit Binding
- where can i get my mando work done?
- Uneven neck relief
- End pin
- Tuner Buttons
- Problems with International Violin Co
- F-Model Point Damage
- Question about Pearl material
- Rossman F-5
- Truss Rods
- Newbie with an IV kit - finish prep questions
- Gilchrist F5 Scale difference
- Stew Mac binding
- Graduating sound- and backboard...
- Stain color and types
- binding
- Newbie with an IV kit - tailpiece and endpin
- optimal action for light player
- Stuck Tuner
- First test bend
- Bridge Question
- Mandolins "opening up"
- Wood Binding
- Finish marks from stand
- "zero fret" wear
- Repairing a crack in the top
- Edging
- Finish Problem
- Glue for the finger rest Pickguard
- Finish for emando
- Tuner upgrade touble.
- Is There a Stable Tortoise Binding?
- Nut material- hopefully more friendly
- Darkening a Label
- Pick Guard for a Gibson A-9
- wood question
- Tone bars
- How to sign my mando?
- Tone Bar Tuning
- Tortise w/Fine White
- Question on Stripping Finish
- Laminated top/back
- head plate on IV kit
- Fingerboard thickness
- Fret wear
- I need important info on Eastman 815 neck
- Loose tone bar?
- Tuner problems
- Fix for collapsing A top?
- Kit?
- Collins front office
- oval hole A, single brace NOT transverse
- Buzz Feiten Tuning system
- Behlen Violin varnish
- Wood Fretboard Binding
- IV Kit finishing questions
- Action in relation to volume
- taking excess finish off of Vintage A
- Filler for gaps around maple, spruce
- Tools for building
- Sharp/flat...bridge adjustment.
- Tuning Troubles
- Now here's some figured maple
- bridge fit-how critical?
- Oiled wood on Ebay
- Building more bass
- Well I've done it...
- Fixing high action
- Celluloid tortise pickguard matereal
- Pearl suppliers
- F hole cutting
- My IV kit strung up in the white.
- Depth of body...?
- Another experiment by a foolish man.
- Refinishing
- I'm taking the plunge
- A-1 pickguard
- Scroll Problem
- Fixing up an Old Harmony
- another electroMando completed
- truss rod adjustment
- A9 tuners
- Heat, Sweat and Old Gibson finishes
- new F-5
- flatback thickness
- New Henry-Style Bridge
- White Varnish Finish
- Neck Relief
- Compound radius fretboard
- Finger board/pick guard
- Repairing a separated back
- A series of rude questions
- spraying stain
- Drill press speed for 1.5" sanding drum?
- Wind Harp
- fir as tonewood?
- Robo Sander, what size for flushing up back?
- Cartwright's Vacation
- What pickup to use?
- bowlbacks
- round vs square bodies
- Mandolin Magazine
- About ready to get back to making.
- Age of builders
- Maple top? Spruce back?
- Neck Woods
- Stew-Mac tape
- IV kit wins
- Buzzzzzzzz
- Suggested Sources for Plans
- bone topping a maple bridge
- Flattop guitar vs. archtop mandolin
- Fret hammers
- mandolin volume
- CHARLIE DERRINGTON
- spontaneous combustion threat
- Some quesitons on fixing up...
- Advice on Cutting Aluminum?
- Raw Abalone
- F-5 Points
- Antler nuts
- Week 1 Building Recap
- radius fretboards
- Intonation troubles
- Seam seperation
- Starts with "Hill"
- Tortoise Binding? I give up.
- Hole size problem for maqchine heads
- initial tidkness of wedge halve
- Carving Chisels
- lesser used woods
- Kits
- depth gauge
- How about cherry?
- Cedar carved tops
- Lose tailpiece
- Blacktop
- Mandolin size
- Peghead Binding Channel Problem
- truss rod, carbon fiber, nothing or something else