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I've got a huge amount of notes & blueprints that I have made over the last four+ decades of building instruments, in addition to several commercially available blueprints. I've been looking into the...

If nothing has changed since my Gruhn's Guide was printed, the format for Gibson mandolins made after 1987, the format is yrrrmmmd, with Y being the last digit of the year of manufacture, rrr being...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zOaOYB120

Just a short glimpse of mandolin building in the custom shop toward the end - anybody recognize the builders?...

Hey all,

I've been doing a lot of transcribing lately and wanted to share my work! Here's a transcription I did of Sierra Hull and Sam Bush jamming on Turkey in the Straw at Grey Fox 2018.
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They don't have to point the same direction either. You could cut the two slots in the direction of the neck on the other side of the opening. Then the slots don't have to be as long and no bending...

Like these? :-)

Went looking for this and it hadn't been linked from anywhere in years. Well, what better time to resurrect? Some of you may visit this page. You may regret it. You've been warned.

Mandolin Cafe...

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict this threads demise in the not so distant future.

The old Forum software has been reinstalled. But I wasn't done meddling just yet. I saw some things in the other version and decided they had their place here so changes have occurred in the...

That has much to do with machine set-up, blade type and quality, and operator skill. It has very little to do with the fence.

In my F5 Journal I have: EA5190; EA5191; EA5192;EA5790 as F5s and EA5248, an H5 Electric made for Dave Apollon.

Please note that we have removed an entire GoFundMe thread at the behest of the person it was set up to benefit. I do not personally take this kind of action lightly. The person it was to benefit I...

The whole record "Sam and Alan Together Again". My all time fav mandolin recording.

This was addressed in the opening post.

It's clear that a few dominating the conversation would benefit from reading more and talking less. If you just can't understand something, it's no one's...

Never underestimate the power of the mandolin. Good therapy.

All the best to you going forward.

Hi Johndog, welcome to the forum. Look at the links here, there is a Classified Ads section, and you could post an ad for this in the "Wanted" section.

Respectfully, it's easy to minimize seizure of someone else's instruments. This is the same type of minimizing that people were doing when CITES II first came out, and now we're facing serious...

Grumping online at organizations and people you don't know from across the pond and will likely never meet won't achieve anything. Unless you join and vote--which means you'd have to open your...

What exactly does it mean when you say Derrington (or other name) Gibson F5? Is that made in the Gibson factory entirely by one specific luthier? Does he just oversee and approve other luthiers in...

Well, more elaborate chords are typically used by groups other than Bill Monroe's, particularly those backing up Texas-style fiddlers, who do great things with this tune. (Listen to Sam Bush on "Poor...

While looking for something else today I ran into this interview with Charlie Derrington. There is some interesting F5L vs Fern info as well as F9/A9 info here. It's a pretty good read.
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There is some really good insights here, and yes, having a brick & mortar store as a backend to a predominately online based business is normally a big mistake (ask me how I know). Where the brick &...

Polish?

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A brief note of thanks from the Mandolin Cafe to this community which during the past few weeks has remained a sane place to hang out online. Sadly, much of music related social media has...

I think I'll just buy the thing so we can put this thread behind us... ;)