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It did - although I think I overbraced it, and kind of took some of the deepness out of the low end. Lots of midrange. I never adjusted to the scale length, but here's a video of me playing (poorly)...

I have also built a few, including a wine box 20” scale octave mandolin (which I just sold last week, below.) They definitely need bracing!

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I've also been told 'That's not a mandolin. What is it really?'

Erm... an 8-string 1/4 size lute with f-holes? I don't know?

I was playing my octave on stage and a fellow came up and said “what is that an oud?” Seemed odd that he knew of an oud but not a big mandolin. Another time I was in the park playing some of the...

I don't have a good one... but when I tell people I make guitars, they say, "Cool!"
When I tell people I make mandolins, they say, "Why?"

Well Len, it's simple. When a customer walks into a bank with a violin case people are generally afraid that he has a machine gun in it and will take it out and rob the place. When a customer walks...

My wife calls them 'Mandolins'.

It's the accompanying adjectives that are questionable... especially if she's home to see the UPS man drop off anther oblong cardboard box.

A mandolin being built for Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots festival in Manchester, VT. This will be raffled off along with a Seeders banjo and a Pre-War acoustic guitar. A great festival that...