I'm with Jeff. Get the strings off, see if it comes out of the mortise. Then you could clean up the old glue and try again. If it goes back together close to original you could add a couple of screws...
I'm with Jeff. Get the strings off, see if it comes out of the mortise. Then you could clean up the old glue and try again. If it goes back together close to original you could add a couple of screws...
A discussion of $20k mandolins leaves out about 99% of mandolins.
Or, Only Gibsons are glued enough.
I have a friend with a Northfield and they're doing a lot of things right.
I don't know much about the subject but when I saw the video of Roger hammering the tonebars of a mandolin with the top attached to the sides I thought to myself that can't be how Gibson did it since...
I made a few A's with quilted necks and I used CF and a truss rod on those just for safety's sake.
I cheated and Googled it. A Premier/ Multivox from the 60's. That's Rosanne doing the harmony.
I kind of like that Steve Morse guy.
I used to admit I knew Don.
Thanks to this thread I now have Mando deodorant ads in all my social media.
Here's mine.
My soapbox issue is that the top shape needs to be smooth and flowing. Many new builders and I include myself in the early days don't get the recurve shape right. We go on about Loar graduations but...
I got this shot of that mandolin and I still have it as my wallpaper.
One of my early ones. Truth was I had gotten the wood from a Canadian supplier and when finished blonde it had a horrible runout problem and this was the only solution I could think of.
It's the execution, not the materials that count to me.
Getting tired of looking at Eastmans?
I should have said Hogan. Adrian drew what many believe to be the most accurate Loar print available. And he followed it very faithfully. I spent all weekend admiring the accuracy and detail of Don's...
If they only made a mandolin like the Hogo or the Jamie Wiens I saw this weekend it would go a long way toward justifying the name and the price.
Or maybe your brain was overcooked down there! We'll be in Tucson...in the winter.
But more to the point Chuck Ogsbury started making banjo's as Ode. Sold the company to Baldwin and couldn't build...
That one looks like an amatuer luthiers work for sure.
Can you get Blue Chips with your phone # on them?
I've never been a fan of 2 points, except for Wills. Very classy.
This is the entrance to where the magic took place.
On one of my earliest mandolins I foolishly tried to spray shellac and got the results you might expect. It was krinkling and checking where the player contacted it.
I saw Bill at some mandolin...
I would just say that if you have a good paying job with a pension and health insurance you better thing long and hard before jumping into the glamorous world of mandolin building.