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Yesterday, 2:40pm

Tavy replied to a thread Tim O'Brien in General Mandolin Discussions

Always a first rate performer, and no exception there!

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Yesterday, 2:35pm

Tavy replied to a thread Water based Finish in Builders and Repair

+1, I would tend towards: * TruOil, thin satin coat: sounds much the same as in the white. * Pure shellac, rubbed coating: also much the same as...

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Yesterday, 2:14pm

Tavy replied to a thread Travel / practice mandolin question in Builders and Repair

:) I realise it was a little off topic - what I was trying to say was - once you've finished chopping your cheapo down, make sure there's enough...

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Feb-19-2019, 1:18pm

Tavy replied to a thread Travel / practice mandolin question in Builders and Repair

You can make electric travel mandolins that are significantly smaller than an acoustic, here's one of mine next to a regular acoustic to show you...

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Feb-18-2019, 2:09pm

Tavy replied to a thread Luthier Paul Hostetter has passed away in General Mandolin Discussions

So sorry to hear this, Paul was invaluable around here and will be sorely missed.

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Feb-15-2019, 1:03pm

Tavy replied to a thread Water based Finish in Builders and Repair

EnduroVar is a water based finish that IMO works very well, it's not a "selling point" though... in fact I don't think anyone has ever asked me what...

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Feb-14-2019, 7:11am

Tavy replied to a thread The end of my playing days. in General Mandolin Discussions

That's a heck of a lot of fluid! And yes those drains are pretty unpleasant going in - coming out, at least when I had it done, was nothing short...

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Feb-14-2019, 7:08am

Tavy replied to a thread Flatwound strings for 17'' Mandola in Equipment

I can't comment on the TI's, but: * The scale length of your instrument is about ideal for CGDA and really rather too short for GDAE. * Taking...

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Feb-10-2019, 4:18am

Tavy replied to a thread The end of my playing days. in General Mandolin Discussions

Good luck for tomorrow Ivan - I had a few collapsed lungs (not at the same time of course!) as a youngster and while having a drain put in is not so...

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Feb-09-2019, 6:52am

Tavy replied to a thread Old photos - a hodgepodge of musicians - folkies + in Videos, Pictures & Sound Files

Cracking stuff!

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Feb-09-2019, 5:18am

Tavy replied to a thread Dillon Mandolin re-wire? in Builders and Repair

LOL, maybe, but getting a ship out of a bottle is harder than putting it in ;) I'm sure that's true. In any case I managed to extract enough...

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Feb-06-2019, 12:55pm

Tavy replied to a thread Dillon Mandolin re-wire? in Builders and Repair

Thanks Marty - but it wasn't done that way - there's just a small hole (pickup wire sized) connecting the pickup cavity to the switch cavity. ...

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Feb-06-2019, 11:16am

Tavy started a thread Dillon Mandolin re-wire? in Builders and Repair

Has anyone attempted to disassemble a Dillon electric mandolin? I have one for rewiring / new pickup fitting and I can't for the life of me figure...

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Feb-05-2019, 1:06pm

Tavy replied to a thread K&K twin-preamp-guitar amp in Equipment

Baggs para is very well regarded. I use a much cheaper Fishman pre which works fine for me, but it appears to be no longer available so I won't...

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Feb-05-2019, 1:01pm

Tavy replied to a thread Measurements for a bowlback nut? in Builders and Repair

The optimal height for any nut is "dead level with the frets", but in practice we leave a little extra in order to avoid going too low. As ever...

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Feb-04-2019, 1:04pm

Tavy replied to a thread The end of my playing days. in General Mandolin Discussions

Ivan I'm so sorry to hear this - but as others have said - don't sell up just yet! At the very least keep hold of one instrument: there will always...

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Jan-24-2019, 3:04pm

Tavy replied to a thread Chorusing bleah in Four, Five and Eight-String Electrics

>but the question is really that—why do people want a 5 rather than a 10? 4 and 5 stringers are really quite different instruments and offer a...

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Jan-23-2019, 3:09pm

Tavy replied to a thread Chorusing bleah in Four, Five and Eight-String Electrics

> And none of the tones are anywhere near an emulation of paired strings. There weren't many there that I liked that much - there was a purple one...

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Jan-23-2019, 2:59pm

Tavy replied to a thread Chorusing bleah in Four, Five and Eight-String Electrics

> Good reasons to have a 10-string. Why do we have lots of 5s but zero electric 10s, except for a couple of one-offs? Speaking personally -...

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