Mandolin restoration

[shinerxl]

I have just completed this restoration for a customer. I hope it might be of interest. Although originally a 12 string, it had been an 8 string for around 50 years so it was felt appropriate to leave it as such. p7c4KFnFOYU

Cheers all, Mark Shiner. luthier. www.selkiestrings.co.uk

[man dough nollij]

Great job, Mark-- looks awesome! I really like that music, what is it?

[billhay4]

The opening page has a music credit. It's by Frank Keenan. No title given. Here's (http://www.myspace.com/frankkeenan) a MySpace page.
Nice Job on both the restore and the video.
Bill

[JeffD]

That is really great.

What is ebony paste?

[shinerxl]

Thanks all for the encouraging comments. Frank Keenan is a singer-songwriter who lives in Orkney and is starting to carve out a bit of a scene here in Scotland at a few large festivals and radio appearences. I play clarsach and mandolin in his band. He has two cd's out and they are both good.

Ebony paste is simply ebony dust, produced by my bobbin sander and a scrap piece of ebony. This is mixed with liquid hide glue (the stuff nobody likes but you need it to stay workable and its pretty non-structural here) I applied the tiles of ebony and MOP I had cut (I made a jig to get them all the same size) then pasted the ebony paste in between. I then formed the tile edges with a sanding block and files on the MOP, then raised to a polish with a great little polishing kit of small reusable papers from Touchstone Tonewoods.
Thanks for looking, Mark Shiner.

www.selkiestrings.co.uk

[shinerxl]

Oh, and the music track is called "Curlew Song".
Cheers, M.

[Zappa]

Very nice!

[Jake Wildwood]

Very nice indeed!

[shinerxl]

Thanks!

[Ivan Kelsall]

Terrific !!. Lovely work & great music to boot,many thanks,
Ivan

[shinerxl]

Cheers Ivan. Maybe you'll drop into the workshop next time you are passing through Orkney.