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Copperfish is correct. So far he's selling gin, as it will take some years before the whiskey is aged.

Boge

Here's another video from last week when Jon Doran collected his "Axe" Bouzouki from my workshop.
Jon is singing "Mary and the Soldier" , which many will know from Paul Brady's arrangement.

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I've just finished building my latest "Axe" bouzouki and Jon Doran came to my workshop to collect it this week. Along with Janice Burns on mandolin, they played some lovely tunes and songs.....here's...

My band are a bit of a (dreaded term) melting pot of musical interests...

Hope the title offends no one - this is firmly tongue in cheek!!
Note the video guy paid scant interest in rendering an...

From Almeria - "..... is actually rather good.... ". Only if you actually like the pick !. A few Cafe members have used both BC & Primetone picks & a few have commented onthe similarity of one to the...

England has produced some quite good stuff in the last few years.

If you want something featuring mandolin, try Spiro. And anything with the English melodeon player Andy Cutting is worth hearing,...

Rob, thanks for the video. I listened both the Fender and Primetone recordings of Somewhere which provides a useful comparison.

Thank you very much Rob.

The harmonics section wasn't actually supposed to be that long, but I really liked it so I ended up extending it. The idea of it was supposed to be that the bottom notes...

Hi all. I have recently had some free time and I thought I would finally try to write my own piece of music for mandolin.

It is based on a cross picking pattern (down up down - down up down) that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDp7jGw7Rec

Messing around with my new setup.
dc

Hey all,

I took this shot of my headstock with this sweet filter and it reminded me of an ad or something. I absolutely love this photo and figured I'd share it with you all... feel free to...

"POSH" - acronym for "Port Out - Starboard Home" - Steamship passengers who could afford the more expensive, shaded and cooler cabins when sailing to India or Australia and back.

Frocks -...

What sort of mandolin do you have and what sort of music do you want to play?

The best advice has been given, try lots. I currently use Dava Picks, I have also like Dunlop Jazz 111 Nylons and...

For those of you that see no value in using a capo I present this. I was replacing a latch on a case and had to rip the lining away from the case shell. When gluing it I realized I left the clamp out...

Those are for the folks who 'really' need more 'cutting power' in their pickin'.

Rob - In the days even before the US postal charges went up dramatically,my US bought goods were held by our...

Have always loved this classic Police track, although my favourite version of this is the cover by Shaun Colvin.

I've arranged it here for an ensemble of three different mandolin parts, an...

(Edited) Glad to find I'm not the only crotchety guy here.

Thanks Rob. You sounded great there. Sounds like just what I need.

Hi Guys,
Thought that you might like to see a few photos of my latest octave mandolin. At the request of the client, the tailpiece was designed for ball-end strings.
Cheers Gary
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Missed some details I meant to mention:
- The Weber Bitteroot is 1-1/8" nut, 14" scale with 10" radius.
- The Breedlove Roque is 1-3/16" nut, 13-7/8" scale and 10" radius.

The bridge photo of...

The nut profile can be reduced to minimize the chance for binding in the slots during tuning. Ideally, the nut height is reduces so only about 1/2 the diameter of the wound strings is in the slot....

The bridge saddles need some refinement - the as received string notches are deeper than necessary and some carving needed to improve on the intonation. I believe that for archtops the string notches...

A very fine tooth mill file to level the frets - stopping just as the wear marks disappear:
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After leveling with the file:
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Here's where I diverge from the conventional methods. I...

The Breedlove nut was made really well, but the slots are somewhat deeper than necessary. A little tweaking will help with potential tuning problems, and we will need to make some adjustments anyway...

The Weber has a Brekke bridge, and the Breedlove a more conventional style. Both were well fit to the top plate with no noticeable gaps:
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There are several good sources for how to use...