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    Re: Using a dummy coil with Piezo

    I built a little circuit with a transistor etc, that is powered from a 9v battery. Although it is an amplifier circuit it doesn’t increase the volume but matches the impedance.
  2. Thread: Amplification

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    Re: Amplification

    My solution to an acceptable acoustic mandolin tone was maybe a tad more radical. I built one, specifically I built a chambered solid body one.
    It’s a two point design with a standard tail piece...
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    Re: Chambered body, electric mandolin

    Well deserved, a fantastic looking instrument.
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    Re: Non-musician Luthiers

    I have built a few mandolin family instruments.
    If you asked my wife she’d say I wasn’t a musician :whistling:
    I can play quite a few chords and bits of songs. But don’t really put in the time to...
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    Re: You gotta see this ...

    I doubt that the plastic is taking any load. Think cigar box guitar, ie the neck takes the load but you can’t see it for the box.
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    Re: Chris has been at it again!

    Nice.
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    Re: Bedbugs And Mandolins

    A friend of a friend ran a business treating hotel rooms. Some in very posh hotels where chemical treatments are not possible.
    He basically tipped the bed and opened the bottom of the divan opening...
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    Re: Chambered body, electric mandolin

    I am really enjoying your videos. I am building something similar. Not quite as complicated though. I wish I had thought of the centre section cutting out and gluing. I did a lot of drilling and...
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    Re: J.L. Smith still building!

    Happy Christmas and a prosperous new year to you too sir.

    When you get your page sorted, feel free to post on my page. I don’t have that many followers or whatever they are called. But if it gets...
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    Re: J.L. Smith still building!

    Good luck although you probably don’t need it. I set up my page easily enough, Electric Mandolin on Facebook. I don’t post on it as much as I could or maybe should.
    I am building in my “spare”...
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    Re: Does anyone have a PDF of E-Mando plans??

    190169
    This is the last one I built, solid body with a piezo in the bridge and the magnetic pickup.
    My first the SG five string I used a guitar building book for reference it is effectively a...
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    Re: Does anyone have a PDF of E-Mando plans??

    I believe I used this site https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.electricherald.com/gibson-les-paul-guitar-templates/amp/ for my SG solid bodied five string octave and the four string mando. My daughter...
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    Re: Does anyone have a PDF of E-Mando plans??

    This is the fretboard template tool. It will give you an accurate shape to work from. http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/
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    Re: Does anyone have a PDF of E-Mando plans??

    I built mine with 19 frets with a bolt on neck the blank was maybe six inches longer than the fretboard. If you are using four on a plate tuners then you need a couple of inches between them and the...
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    Re: Does anyone have a PDF of E-Mando plans??

    I found various guitar drawings that I printed off and used as my template.
    For the neck in particular the fretboard I used fret2find iirc you can put in all your sizes nut bridge etc (it doesn’t...
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    Re: Maggie May - tutorial

    Chord Calculus on IPhone, I don’t know if they do an android version too.
    It is fairly simple to use, but can give out a few unplayable chords. At least not without Stretch Armstrong’s hands.
  17. Thread: 8 string Uke

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    Re: 8 string Uke

    That’s a new one on me. I am not sure if I would buy it unless I could try it out first. Definitely interesting though
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    Re: Electric Mandolin Buzzing

    Aluminium, steel or any other metal for that matter. As long as it forms a Faraday cage.
    Altoids tins etc are common for guitar amps or effects for that reason.
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    Re: Odd headstock repair

    While I would be hesitant to do this if the instrument has any historical value.
    How about drilling across the break and inserting a couple of dowels or carbon fibre rods. If you then plug the...
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    Re: Hand Lotion and Strings

    Paranoia about germs is second nature due to the work. My colleague and I have not had much of a change as far as hand washing etc. If you took apart what we did where we do you’d be paranoid too. ...
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    Re: Hand Lotion and Strings

    I work in infection control specifically fitting the machines that clean and sterilise surgical instruments. As a result I have been using hand sanitisers for years and some of the hospital soaps are...
  22. Re: 4 String Electric Mandolin recommended strings?

    A little bit more information might help. Is there something about the current set you don’t like?
    What style of music are you going to use it for?
    Personally I tend to choose light strings but it...
  23. Thread: Hybrid electric

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    Re: Hybrid electric

    If you mean the gain switch in the buffer schematic. It’s a little din switch in some or those pegs with a little bridge you see in computers.
    I didn’t bother. You have two resistors at the start...
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    Re: Ready built electric mandolin necks?

    I have built mine with a two way truss rod, I haven’t had to make use of them once fitted. But the ability to straighten the neck should I have to is worth the time etc to fit one.
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    Re: Ready built electric mandolin necks?

    It really depends on where you are too. The OP is in the UK that adds to the cost if you do go to Stewmac or potentially any overseas seller.
    My latest neck was made with fiddleback sycamore not a...
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