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    Getting Back To It

    Hello all, as it can, life got hectic and I drifted away from all things musical but I finally found my way out of the weeds and ended up at Waynesboro Music yesterday and walked out with an Eastman...
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    A renaissance cittern and a flat-backed mandolin I built. 2 instruments of similar construction, several hundred years apart.

    https://i.imgur.com/otS0SZ6.jpg
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    Re: A 10 string variable scale story

    OK Part 3.... closing out the box...

    Back is 2.5mm rosewood and a lot less flexible than the top, so while it also has an induced arch in the same manner as the top, it's a lot less noticeable. ...
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    A 10 string variable scale story

    OK folks here we go, this is a slightly unusual thread - it's not a "build thread" because the instrument is already built and off in it's new home, nor is it a "look what I made" thread, because I...
  5. Old irish air on 1910 Gautié French flatback

    Recently restored Gautié arrived last week:

    https://youtu.be/quVTWu5ksO4?t=5
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    Re: DolinmanX

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f30kOKwjgUM&lc=UgwUYAEx_TVm2IG5GzN4AaABAg
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    A renaissance cittern nearing completion.

    https://i.imgur.com/i0nmPIW.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/zCrEP7B.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/3zVjAZb.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/xUYs8Kq.jpg
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Bob, my instrument are not high art either. I have been building folk instruments for 60 years starting with dulcimers when I was in high school. If it has strings and frets I have built at least...
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Well, obviously, the cat soundhole is working.😸

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    Guitars, Mandos, Violins, Dulcimers, Cats
  10. A flat-back mandolin or bandolim and other recent builds

    Here's a flat-backed mandolin or bandolim, based on Portuguese and Brazilian models:
    https://i.imgur.com/86aLqOn.jpg
    https://i.imgur.com/pEOIcDd.jpg
    https://i.imgur.com/qH8kor9.jpg
    Here's the...
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    You can call it the Tom and Jerry model...:cow:
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Worked out all of the set up on #5 and took some detail shots; check the Flickr link for all the goodies:https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAUKZT

    Its been done and ready for a couple weeks now and I've been...
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Octave mandolin in sitka spruce and claro walnut. 21" scale length, lacey sheoak fingerboard and Queensland maple neck.

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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    I'm almost done with this electric octave mandolin. It will have four single strings and a relatively short scale (18"). Shooting for something in an octave mando range in a mandolin/mandola-size...
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Varnishing the latest mando
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Finished this today so i guess it's now... off my bench?

    https://i.imgur.com/pEOIcDd.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/qH8kor9.jpg
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Great, now every time I pick up my Gibson A, all I'm going to see is the lack of a cat in the soundhole! Thought that mandolin was darn near perfect! :))
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Bob, that is very original and fun.
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    Re: DolinmanX

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJAqhs-5dc
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    Re: DolinmanX

    https://youtu.be/RkDR7wErZtI
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    Re: DolinmanX

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_lOL9RBVkg&lc=UgwLd8V3I3n81DeLCEp4AaABAg
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    Re: Performing in a sport coat

    It took 49 years to get around to the advice Hartford gave me. Cut the buttons off of your performance coat or vest. They can always be sewn back on. I did this not long ago with a vest, and I'm real...
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

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    Just finished an octave mandolin (560mm scale 355mm body width) and a mandolin (365mm scale 292mm body width)
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    Re: Very old mandolin ID requested

    I've seen that at the Home Depot aisle: "Other Dark Wood". Mystery material.

    If Pablo H were still with us he would inform us that the species is tenebris silvam.

    I've heard that some early...
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    Re: New Piccolo and My Piccolo Trio

    This was how I got a standard Leland mandolin years ago. The seller listed it as a piccolo and was clueless about scale length. When I got it it was a standard mandolin.

    Here are the two of them...
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