Wood will always gets to EMC which depends on RH of air around it. Thermally processed wood has slightly lower EMC and has generally better dimensional stability which was the main argument for doing...
Wood will always gets to EMC which depends on RH of air around it. Thermally processed wood has slightly lower EMC and has generally better dimensional stability which was the main argument for doing...
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This TP is from my 2002 Duff H-5 mandola. They look very similar to my eyes (especially in person, mine has much more chrome plating). It is beautiful engraving for sure, I would guess...
Well, if Collings believes in using torrefied tops, then I have to believe that there is something to it. I have heard from a reliable, knowledgeable guitar player who has played hundreds of guitars...
It has been on ebay for several years. Has a fair amount of damage under the tailpiece.
Change the string first. It's the cheapest thing on the instrument.
In this case the term specifically refers to wood that has been kiln dried i.e. torrefied. It is a term used by Bourgeois for their torrefied products.
It is purely a marketing term so they don't...
Thanks, i didnt see that. I'll remove this one.
Just when you think you have seen it all...
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I think that is the accepted wisdom, and knowing the Gibson Company, it makes perfect sense. Loar left Gibson because the big prject to restimulate the market -- the F5 -- didn't go over with...
Well selling person to person works just to demonstrate what a valuable asset the Cafe provides with it's classifieds. Pittsburgh is not exactly mandolin metropolis. A nice fellow drove in from Ohio...
Would I joke about such things?! He only lived about two miles from the pub and it was down hill all the way back. I won’t say who it was but the luthier had quite a time putting the thing back...
Ditson also sold instruments made by other builders. Post a picture.
If it has a Martin serial number make sure you compare it to the Martin mandolin serial numbers and not the guitar serial...
There's not much information available on Martin/Ditson mandolins.
Martin made instruments for Ditson as early as 1903, and their relationship continued until 1930.
If it's a flat back mandolin, it...
how i would answer the question, if you like the tone of the Dave Harvey builds(i do) and you play the flat fretboards with the small frets with no issue, you will not be disappointed.
i've had a...
This is identical to the one I just patched up (photo attached). It was on CL for rather cheap, with case in January. To settle one disputed claim, the ones with this particular stencil can be...
Yes, agreed. Some of my happy songs are rather silly. Which is not to say that humor can't infuse serious or cynical or satirical songs - it can, indeed, and quite effectively - but being silly may...
I had steeled myself to read a tale of severed digits, painful recovery, and learning to play with four fingers. I was happy to see it's just a crappy headstock!
Ok, I want to repost my favorite Mandolin Cafe Hat pic I took awhile ago, this guy is a stickler for detail....
Jeff, from the look of things, I think re-doing all the string slots is in order. Shave a skotch off the top and start clean.
My theory about the oft-mentioned shimmer of the SOLs is a beat...
FYI, we are not the authors of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8MD4HbKYK8
While I think of my instrument making as being only slightly "art", there are those who tell me I'm an artist and consider my work to be art. Not an uncommon situation for someone who does this sort...
I bought a plan for an F3 style mandolin once and modified it to include some F5 features. I called it an F3.5 (F 3 point 5). I made it in neck-through-body construction which you can tell from the...
Just played a gig last night with an old friend. He has an extremely hard time walking, and lives up a hill. He leaves all his instruments in his car, all the time. We live in the Midwest and last...
I have to tell my F-3 story here. Iwas in high school and it was 1964, and I was thinking I wanted to play mandolin. Super unpopular thing to want to do 60 years ago in small town California! I was...
You know, I live for this kind of truly obscure information!!