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If at 1st you don't succeed just keep trying.
Type: Posts; User: Kennyz55
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If at 1st you don't succeed just keep trying.
188868I have an old Kentucky mandolin. I’d like to pay a luthier to make a head block and neck for it. I’ve given up on making the repair myself. I can give you the mandolin body and a maple neck...
What advantage is a tapered dovetailed Neck? How would I lay it out on the head block? I have this from Roger Siminoff to layout a non-tapered dovetail joint. ...
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Starting to come together slowly. I think I paid $150 for it with the broken neck and with the 1727 hours in at minimum wage that's only $14472.26 in it so far. NJs minimum wage is...
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Back at it again. Happy Easter all.
I would love to see those pictures John and sorry if I quoted your personal email without approval. :)
Additionally,
What you use to remove wood from the head block, tool wise?
I wrote John Hamlett, Sunburst, before I started this thread and he said "No, I would not remove the back. In the picture, it looks like a straight dovetail, and I much prefer to use a tapered...
Bought this Kentucky mandolin with a broken headstock. Repaired it a few different times and the repair failed after some time each time. Now I want to make a new neck. How do I cut a new dovetail...
I use a knew concepts coping saw like this one.
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Hi Jimmy,
This seems like am amazing system. How do you set the angle and what angle do you set?
Thanks,
Kenny
Peter Coombe says his jig is 4.5 degrees ."This is my dovetail cutting jig, the idea thanks once again to Lynn Dudenbostel. It is cut exactly to an angle of 4.5deg."
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Lynn Dudenbostel said...
I don't know what to loosen here on the inside. I can turn the outside. I assume clockwise is tightening????
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I want to lower the action on this mandolin banjo. Can i shim or how do you adjust it?154259
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Please add me to both lists and I'll add some picks to the pack. Thanks. :)
Finally started again.
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I should be finished by my 90th birthday. LOL
Thanks Spencer. Love my new armrest. :)
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Could you use micro mesh for sharpening as well
I'll take one or a slab of olive wood.
Nice work. :)
Starting to fix a National Supro that collapsed.
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Taking off the back and restarting this project for the spring.
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Fixing a cigar box guitar and gluing head block for National Supro rebuild.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5650/23384184609_3c3bebece3_k.jpg
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A couple of redwood tops and rebuilding a 1930s National mandolin[img]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5726/23647617711_51eb487742_k.jpg
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A couple of redwood tops and rebuilding a 1930s National mandolin.
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I meant the sound well and top material. Thanks, I have plenty of kerfing. The well is soft and falling apart. It looks like basswood and the top looks like a thin piecs of birch plywood but not sure...
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