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Salamander stenciled. A mix of mica, titanium oxide, and iron oxide in a bit of tru-oil. She will be providing her own tiny led stage lights inside the oval hole box!

I've already made tens of dollars this year at Old Wave Heavy Industries Mandolin Stamping facility , and its only April! I plan to retire soon to start making rotary telephones!

No sweat, no tears, just blood from string end poke while setting up in the white.
Betting that Griffith tribute will Boom, John!

Alas James, my last dumpster dive was years ago at the Rigel factory a couple of days after they shut down, found nothing, but was saving my sw airlines samsonite space for the local farwood anyway:

Scored a coil of .080x.250 tortoise celluloid binding at the ASIA convention yard sale in Springfield, Mo. long ago. Wondering if anyone might have a trick for making it more pliable for binding...

Just when you think you're breaking your addiction to mando building syndrome, this stuff falls out of the far wood pile: well tempered curly maple cut by our dentist's great grandfather near Albany,...

All kidding aside, they make swell bolo ties!

Where do I sign up for the suitable for framing blueprint? It was Elderly's 1983 Scott Antes A-2 blueprint that started many of us down this long dusty road decades ago, thanks for throwing more fuel...

Made a bunch long ago, still reach for whatever is sharpest, lots of blades made from worn yard sale files, still prefer the horsedrawn ibex for braceshaving photo-ops and dna samples.....

Been playing a Framus cutaway as my outdoor bass since I bought it out of an old house in a ghost town west of us (it had been collecting dust there with a broken neck for 30 years) for $150 40 years...

Only email I ever got from Charlie D said I could no longer use their flowerpot. My next one was pipestone/abalone. No complaints......yet!

Maple octave back, and one of the f holes. No luncheonettes were harmed in the making of the binding, as far as I know!

Necking again in the shop while waiting for 'monsoon' season to pass. Ebony/quilt, African Blackwood, Brazilian rosewood, Macassar Ebony, brw/curly, ebony, desert ironwood, brw, brw, ironwood. Below...

Built a mandospanker long ago, strumming a mando all day with a doublepick loaded turntable made the open strings irritatingly loud, did nothing for fretted notes. Maybe if I'd had an Arthur Godfrey...

John sold a bunch of mandolins for me back in the 90's. Total Straight shooter. I even bought a Brazilian Washburn from him for $10 to make a swell festival hat.....

After shoveling out this last batch of ovals I was going to enter a 12 step program to break my addiction to mandolin building syndrome(MBS). Then I found a piece of maple cut in Abany, Mo. by my...

James- Alicia called me out of the blue 20 years ago. She was living over the mtn west of us and packing to move to Mexico. Said come get all this wood before we haul it to the landfill. I was there...

Hitched up the horse to shave braces on the octave equivalent of a rotary phone....

No longer taking orders, except from my recently retired lovely wife, but I dig those old oval hole designs updated with x braced Engelmann and radiuses boards. No woods seasoned more than 40 years...

Sawed part of the peghead off "The Awful" to fit in a dry bag for a river trip, worked great!

Broken bowl backs seem to find me and quickly become festival hats!

Thought for a moment that Mr. Bergethon had sold "The Guppy"!

I've suffered no ill effects from Ellis tasting, can't say the same for Tom's cheesehead sampling.......

If you're going the gastank route, I'd recommend the Pontiac T1000 with a middle school Kay 1/2 size neck......

Strung the old home made 30" scale 000 size acoustic bass guitar a fourth above as a-d-g-c for river float trips, kept up with the rest just fine. Never met an ABG e string that floated my boat,...