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I take the mandolin I like playing everywhere. Does it show, yes. I play gigs in hot humid weather and the varnish finish shows it's wear. The finish is worn off the neck along with most of the...

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This TP is from my 2002 Duff H-5 mandola. They look very similar to my eyes (especially in person, mine has much more chrome plating). It is beautiful engraving for sure, I would guess...

You could email Paul.
https://www.duffmandolins.com/

Looks like it's been played a bunch. I like that. If you have a dental mirror look inside, you will easily be able to tell if it is X braced.

The last two digits of my serial numbers signify the year while the first three relate to the number of the instrument.
So your mandolin is the 46th mandolin I have built and it was completed in...

I just pulled this email address off the website.

info@duffmandolins.com

You may be able to email him directly and get the information you seek. All the best.

Jeff

I have a one footed bridge on my mandolin with two tone bars and it sounds better than the two footed bridge it came with. It will also help if you have belling in the center of the top.

I have a T-shirt with that old man/guitar ad. Because I'm old, a man, and I have a guitar. :cool:

Love the circle of fifths sticker, you need to get a Mandolin Cafe sticker! https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/213944#213944

Iron...
Ideally, you'd use a two-footed bridge on an instrument with two longitudinal tone bars (like the F5/H5/A5) where you have a foot positioned over each tone bar. And you'd use a full-footed...

Here is a previous thread regarding case stickers...

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/137797-Post-photo-of-your-Stickered-Cases

I’ve collected three stickers to go on the hard case I ordered along with the Klos mandolin

There have been a hundred threads on here where someone with (very) limited mandolin exposure declares a cheap mandolin to be "at least as good as a Gibson" or something of that ilk. There haven't...

Blanket statements about pricing and unknown amounts of work don't offer much help. 'Better to use a flat rate and then calculate how much work needs to be done at an average of +/- $50 per hour. Or...

$500 is preposterous for a set-up . . . assuming that it doesn't need work outside of the following:

1. adjusting the nut
2. adjusting the truss rod [if it has one]
3. setting the bridge...

The OP can sort this out by, for example, using any set of small drills to measure the tuner holes in question, and just buy whatever screws are the same or smaller dimension in a finish or pattern...

Stewmac has a variety of colors and drive type.

https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Screws-Phillips-Guitar-Machine/dp/B07BV43Z9H/ref=mp_s_a_1_6_sspa?crid=39HVXLBF32DQH&keywords=guitar+tuner+mounting+screws&qid=1706805790&sprefix=guitar+tuner+screws%2C...

Exactly which screws are you referring to? The small wood screws that hold the tuners to the headstock?

I've installed K&K and JJB piezoelectric soundboard transducers in quite a few instruments, including violins, violas and f-hole mandolins.

There are some differences between installations in a...

i agree with her on a lot of points, not that its a bad thing but we did not have the instant online resources like the ones available today, you really had to find someone to show you, and from my...

If you're going to buy nut files, I prefer the ones from Music Nomad over StewMac's. You can get them from Sweetwater or Amazon, among others. The file can be removed from the handle easily, for...

For the e string slots, a razor saw would work just fine (if you have one of course).

If the slots are at different heights, the strings will be out of tune when fretted, because one has to be stretched slightly more than the other.

Yes, the strings must be the same height at the nut and bridge (relative to the frets) for intonation.