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Are you still looking for beta testers for your bottoms? I have a 1912 K4 mandocello which was raped of its Handel tuners before I owned it. It is now equipped with Grotohs . I been thinking about...

I have found the equipment to punch and install both spiral and GBC type bindings at local thrift stores. I often make or down load pdf file of music I want to bind. My local library offers 70 pages...

Thank you for sharing your efforts. I have been looking for a copy of Bickfords for several years. I downloaded the files, printed and spiral bound it. Shown in the attached photo with my circa 1912...

Holly is a wood which has been traditionally used in boat building for accent stripes in cabin soles(floors) on yachts. Where I live, holly is considered an invasive species by some folks. Lots of...

I have several machine tools including an 11 foot tall drill press and a lathe that weighs more than my car. My smallest metal lathe(a watchmakers lathe) will fit in a lunchbox. I can machine wood to...

How long has your glue been reconstituted? I get the best results with freshly re-hydrated glue.

Making new posts is an easy project with a metal lathe. I am spoiled since I have my own in-house machine shop. It is totally possible without machine tools, but would be somewhat time and labor...

Here are links to a website where the construction of a shop made thickness sander is presented.
http://www.rockslide.org/drum%20sander.html
The plan for the sander is here:...

I been planning to inlay a ƒ5 copy peg head with the phrase: "another Loar copy" in gibsonian script, but haven't done it yet. Maybe someone will beat me to it.

I read this book about a month ago. I found it at the local library. I ended up reading it in two sessions. I found this to be a well written inspiring book.

I would dearly love to be considered for this drawing. It will cost me about $50 for ferry fare and gas to get to Seattle roundtrip, so not having enough funds for transportation and tickets, a pair...

This guy is five feet tall and about forty inches wide. I carved him with a chain saw. All one piece including the bow. I started with a sitka spruce log that wasn't suitable for soundboards. I had...

If you have a lathe with a hollow headstock, having an internal diameter larger than the diameter of the spool clamps you wish to make, It is easy and quick to drill a hole into a wooden dowel before...

Dave Cohen what are the electrodes for carbon arc lamps made of? I have some unused rods which were to used for this purpose.

John, I have used this type of joint on one of my lathes for over 30 years without replacing the wire or the fibre pin. The wire has worn on the pulley side but hasn't broken yet. I actually used...

There is a large flat knife used by leather workers to cut long tapered edges in leather. It is called a skiving knife.

I have been using lineshaft era machine tools for over thirty years. The traditional way to join flat belting is to lace the joint together with leather lacing in a diamond shaped pattern. This is...

no lead in the saw blade.

If you really want to make a mandolin, the best way is to actually start doing it. There is lots of information available these days, online as well as in printed form. This forum is an excellent...

I am planning heavier mass planes. I am making the plane irons from salvaged blades from a 4 head sawmill planer. The blades are 1.75 inches long and about 2.5 times the thickness of the iron in my...

I am in the process of making patterns prior to casting a series of finger planes in bronze. Most of my experience has been using Ibex planes. I have not had the opportunity to use Laarman planes....

I wonder how people made wooden musical instruments for so many centuries before the very recent widespread use of electricity and petroleum based energy sources? It can be done.

My first mandolin was an eight string version of yours. It has the same pickguard and inlays. It was made by the Osborne Company( or at least marketed by them), so says the paper label inside. I was...

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