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A new bluegrass festival starting up in Hanover County
http://www.hanoverruritan.org/Fundraisers/hanoverbluegrass.htm
This should be a good little warm-up for the RVA Folk Festival. NFI

Throwing my name in the hat too

The Great Remember (For Nancy) by Steve Martin. After I read who it was for, I couldn't help but tear up a little.

Another vote for the electrical tape. I had a guitarist who played a 12 string Taylor and swore by it. Electrical tape must be related to duct-tape, WD-40 and bungee cords. It works, but if the cut...

The main thing with tuning the drums is making sure that the kit is in tune with itself. You don't want the toms to clash with each other. I was told to tune it as if you were singing
"Here comes...

Drum Tuning Bible

And you thought tuning a mando is hard.

Never mind, you just posted it. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I was waiting to hear a review on those, what color did you receive?

Wow,looks great! If I'm lucky mine will look half as nice as that one. Love the finish and the the shape of the head stock. How long did it take you from start to finish?

The input's great. Which tools should I start out buying? my birthday's Monday and I have a girl looking to buy me some gifts. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

Thanks, I had done searches for a while, but didn't come across the right thread until you put the link up.

Since I'm new to the world of building a mandolin, I thought I would ask the pro's a couple of quesetions. I just received my A model IV kit (plus the book), and need some advice on what tools to...