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Consider a call to Bruce Weber in Montana.
Montanalutherie.com, I think is their website.

Search engine for "Gilchrist Loar repair" goes to his web site, "fretboard journal Gilchrist loar repair" should get you to their web site, and it is Fretboard Journal # 38 if you have that.

As a hide glue guy I was somewhat taken out of my comfort zone reading 70281 had the bass tone bar repaired with super glue.
There is so much to learn and consider.

Rock on, Mr. Oliver (no relation known)!
I get what you're doing. Keep it up.

To be clear - That is an awesome burst. I had a mild panic attack that my meaning would be misunderstood.

Good grief! Pheffernan's image of the Griffith A tribute looks like a wooden model for geology class of what a pre-volcano eruption looks like.

Is your certificate of calibration still in effect on that calibration block and the measuring device?
The regulator looking over your shoulder wants to see the certs.
I will guess that 3% +/-...

For the purpose of the scroll see the Gibson Mandolin and Guitar Company Technical Manual
TM: Mandolin, F: Oval and ff hole.
GROUP 15--FRAME AND ATTACHMENTS
BOSS, SUSPENSION: forward anchor...

Wow!
That is powerful -- the mandolin and the Man!
Did I hear Mike's last words in the video correctly; "This is mine."

I noticed the mention of the L.A Loar signing of the Mrs. Mary Butt Griffith Gibson mandolin flagged on the 'cafe homepage.
Apparently Mrs. Griffith passed in 1928, so she had a short time with the...

What Don said...208325

No doubt about that! And on a sunny day I suppose you offer welding glasses to the audience?
Good thing that has convex surfaces- cuz otherwise you would have a solar-powered mobile mandolin...

On the interwebs how many forum threads contain the two phrases "Grundy Co. TN" and "Middlebury?" No disrespect to either location.
You might come at your target sort of sideways by building your...

Have a look at the Girouardmandolins.com site.
In the "G-notes" location there is a well done documentation for their effort for a Griffith Loar A. It describes the Epifanes brushed on and french...

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What about a sunrise sunburst?

Too far, too much, for an a type?

The "For Ann Landers Tour!"
I love it.
An advice song for dual citizens and working, traveling, musicians?

"First you make a roux."
Seems like there was a builder just north out of Baton Rouge, maybe Baker, that worked on that. I'm thinking that would be in the 1960s or '70s.
I would seek out the old...

I have not.
Are you thinking flat top or carved arch top?
Mahogany is a well known top wood, but outside of some ukuleles and my nice Santa Cruz guitar I don't have experience with it as a sound...

Mando rides a Springer, of course.

Very nice art.

I went through the Mandolin Archive, Loar Period. That is the only source I have access to - and great full for it!
The Parrot F5 is the only F5 I see without the back button.
I found 3 of the F2...

That's right. South of the equator it is the Choro_oly effect...

Not sure but didn't older instruments laminate fancy wood over bland, but stable, core for the necks? Seems like you could come up with a process of adding sheets, curing and then reshaping?

That does sound great.

I hope your mother heard that when she was living.

Loudon County! That's "God's country" right there. Just beautiful there.
Keep your eyes and ears peeled for Ted Davis' work.