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Check out Dragon Plate. Last time I ordered five 0.125,0.500,24” for $7 ea. Plus &11 shipping.

Looks very nice Joey. I really like the way some areas are transparent. Good job!

Charlie,
One other piece of advice is that when you think you’ve added enough dye, you haven’t. Once the first sealer/finish coats are sprayed the colors brighten greatly. This mandolin looked...

Bill James bridges can be found at axinc.net. Equivalent to CA bridges IMHO. Shipping is rather steep for one bridge...

This is a new build, so no old finish to worry about. As long as you’ve got the clear coats off a little dye left shouldn’t matter since you’re re-dying dark.

Just finished an attempt at Gallatin faded leather yesterday. Not sure how close I got as I had only internet photos to guide me. Used Transtint med. brown dye in alcohol(started with recommended...

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Just saw this on the Axiom website
Between the (33% ?) haz-mat shipping fee and this “tariff”, wood binding is starting to look cost effective !


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Excellent job! Not easy to pull off a blonde top. Good luck with your next build.

I have found that building two mandolins concurrently saves a significant amount of machine setup time. As the differences in their designs increase, the build steps fall “out of sync”, e.g. F5 vs...

I sent you a PM with my "recipe"

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Bernie,
If you think this is similar enough, I can send you the Tans-Tint dyes/ratios used.Was air-brushed, not rubbed.
John
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I found that acrylic templates speed up the process of redrawing the contour lines after each carving/scraping/sanding.
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