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This was sold as an L-7C tenor, but it clearly isn’t. The body is 16”, smaller than an L-7, and Gibson only used the Florentine cutaway on these smaller bodies. That’s OK by me – I prefer smaller...

One night in summer 2017 as I laid in bed, I emailed Max with a proposition to build a tenor guitar. Through some repair and set-up work he'd done for me before, I had already developed a real...

A flat-top mandola I have just finished. Top is cedar, back is cherry and the sides are walnut. No real reason for the choices other than I had this wood in my stockpile and wanted to make a...

I had a nice trip over to Jackson, MS yesterday to pick up the saw. Luckily, I had a good friend from Clinton, MS who tagged along to help us load it up. It is HEAVY.
I couldn't be happier with...

I know, I know....it's a tenor banjo, not a tenor guitar. But the performance was too sweet to resist.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bGG2EkT12M

Hi All,

I just got my Collings all mahogany tenor guitar back from the Collings repair shop, where they treated the guitar and me like royalty. No financial interest or ties here, just a very...

OK, I am new here and don't want to annoy people right out of the gate, just looking through the Build and Repair section for build threads. I thought I would read this one as I did something similar...

Hi Folks and thank you for the congratulations sent my way. Yes, I’m Greg D from Pennsylvania. I’m actually just a tad north of Pittsburgh. Although I don’t post much I’ve been a member here since...

I have never heard of Richard until I came upon this video. I like his playing but he has his history a bit off.


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This was posted today on the Richard Thompson email discussion list:

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Martin
(Founder member of the RT list - going since 1993!)

Has been asked before. Won't happen. Ever.

There may be classifieds sites dealing in stringed instruments that tell retailers, "put your goods over here in this little category so we don't have to...

As most of you know, we had a serious hardware issue with the server last night around 7:40 p.m. that wasn't discovered for an hour because, well, we have other things like families, other interests,...

Been a while, but nice windy weather for outdoor woodbutchering and mandomandala making....

Put this together using the arrangement from Baron Collins-Hill.

https://soundcloud.com/user-495447628/lazy-john

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Here is another one similar to the first one above, except for a standard (i.e., post-through) headstock. This one has an Engelmann spruce top, curly maple back/sides/neck,...

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This mandolin was built on spec, a by-product of last year's GAL convention. I went to dinner w/ Guitar luthier Steve Kinnaird, his wife, and his shop co-worker. I snatched up...

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This is a good one for a laugh :))

Please forgive my playing, but you can hear the sub-basses gently humming in the breeze.

https://soundcloud.com/graham-mcdonald-4/midnight-on-the-water

cheers

Left 4” of Nebraska snow a day earlier to acclimate and rest up before the grueling 4 days of show ahead. Rough job, but someone has to do it.

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In case anybody missed them last year, here are two more videos from these sessions released on Del's channel (For What It's Worth) and The Gibson Brothers channel (With A Little Help From My...

I made the sides by building a compression mould, two half's lined with polished stainless steel sheet.
It was not easy to get the end grain squares all lined up but basically I applied two layers...

It took a bit of time but the guitar is finished....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8AegM9xUVc

My Vega CB Tenor...

Happy New Year to all my mandolin friends.

Especially to those brand new to the mandolin. Those whose first mandolin showed up under the tree less than a week ago. Welcome one and all to the...

Hey everyone!

I gave this arrangement of the great George Harrison song Something a shot. This arrangement is by Tim Connell. As always, feedback is mightily appreciated!
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