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I fought with the difficulty of adapting my mandolin knowledge to mandola for several years. In fact, there are probably a million and half bitching and moaning posts here on the Cafe about it.
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It depends on who made the Webers. Not who signed the label: who made the instrument. Some were made by companies that bought the rights to the Weber name.

I have several Webers. Most were made...

Thanks, everyone, for your responses. I'm going to keep a list of them all and try them all. I have a feeling that this is one of those injuries that is going to recur even after it gets better.
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Thanks so much for the video! I'm completely enamored by old fashioned hand-and-tool work. That's why all of my inlay are hand cut. It's a total pain in the tuchus and nowhere near as precise as the...

Interesting. My least favorite part of a carpentry of any kind is finish--from the sanding to the applying of finish. But ever since the first time I got into the French Polish mindset, I've really...

Does anyone know anything about Jamie Fletcher and the Fletcher Tenors? I am seriously considering purchasing one, but I've never commissioned an instrument by e-commerce, and the only comments I can...

Your helpful guinea pig here. I've been beating my head against this problem for years and years and my brain is not getting any younger. But now I've got a solution, no thanks to me.

I'm a...

I agree with the advice above: buy the best instrument you can stretch to afford; buy used to maximize your dollars.

In terms of buying at a distance: I've bought instruments from several...

Last night I decided to give up on my reconstruction of a guitar-body tenor uke/octave mando/mandola that I've been working on for years. I owe a great debt of gratitude to many of you--too many to...

I tried to tune my 5 string banjo to GDAE and CGDA. Didn't work. I'm not that great with moving from to instrument or tuning to tuning, so maybe it just didn't work for me.

But I think there...

Hey, listen, I do compliance work for businesses, and even though I have decades of experience as a regulator, my compliance clients almost ALWAYS know more about the law than I do. And they're also...

I had this problem for a while. It was so bad that I found a physical therapist in Atlanta who had experience in dealing with--get this--stringed instrument musicians. It seems that he'd done PT...

DaveGinNJ: It's true that the rise of Amazon (and Walmart, and Sams, and Costco) have coincided with the demise of small business. But the reason Amazon, Walmart, Sams, Costco et al are rising...

I'm a lawyer, I used to worry for The Man, and I used to play banjo. There are a lot of people who would say that that ship sailed a long time ago.

My take? Whatever you paid for it is a sunk cost. No sense in regretting it. You thought you were buying a mandocello, but you were buying an experience. Now you have two years of experience with...

It doesn't take me any time. I walk into my shop and time disappears.

Anyway, you're asking the wrong question. "It" doesn't take any time. You take the time. If you want to build one in...

The administrators and moderators of fora like this have a thankless job. They have to deal with all of the difficult people in the community. And no matter what call they make in a difficult case,...

I am a bit of a student of graphic representations of data. The thing about graphic representations is that they are always lies: they're both too general/oversimplified, and too specifically...

Sherry: There's an easy way to learn. I know because it's the way I learned chords on guitar, banjo, mandolin and mandola. Choose some pieces of music you like. Preferably from a "three chord"...

Man. You must'a grow'd up rich if your neighborhood had cups not beer bottles hanging on the tree!

Funny you should mention all of this, because one of the next steps in my reconstruction of a ukemando I'm rebuilding is to set the bridge. And unfortunately, I don't believe that the bridge height...

You guys are no fun. If there's no fight here, I'll have to go back to work.

Thanks. I've never used a capo, even with banjo, because I didn't see the difficulty of just transposing the chords to another key … particularly when you realize that all of the chord forms occur...

RE: electric string winder

I don't know if I should admit this publicly, but I use a manual one from my misbegotten banjo days.

"universe-ending apocalyptic singularity that would collapse the universe"

right now, maybe not a bad thing