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  1. Thread: Buzzy note

    by Richard500
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    Re: Buzzy note

    A simple, very accurate, zero skill thing I do on my rescues is to take a Sharpie to all the frets and then run a large known flat thing (I use a sharpening stone, but a piece of wood or glass is...
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    Re: MOTS fingerboard, unknown model

    Thanks, Mike. I hadn’t seen an ad for the Harmony Shutt (upper left) that I have. Nice to know it was so expensive!
  3. Thread: Aged-tone?

    by Richard500
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    Re: Aged-tone?

    If we want to get specific, the process changes the chemical composition of wood in a way that does not represent aging in air. The wood becomes something that can be called char, as in charcoal, by...
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    Re: Whiskey barrel octave mandolin

    I think we may have to credit this builder with introducing the roller fairlead to mandolins, plus a few more novel things as well as mutating specifications. Some of us might get strange ideas, but...
  5. Thread: Aged-tone?

    by Richard500
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    Re: Aged-tone?

    I suppose they wouldn’t care to use a more accurate moniker: baked- tone. Musicians would get the wrong image.
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    Re: Speed Neck on Carbon Fiber Mandolin

    Ok to laugh. I had the neck covered with low tack blue painter’s tape during a repair, and found I not only liked it, but that it’s pretty durable.k
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    Re: Broken Tuner Key

    Increasingly hard to turn may not improve with lube, as you might have a split gear or an alignment issue. The buttons you show are held on with screws and replaced easily; they also can be glued...
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    Re: Gibson's 1923 F-5 Master Model Reissue

    As above, plus certainly can be strung with 1920s metallurgy.
    Since we now have warning and product labels on everything - these days you can’t even tell what color a ladder is for all the stickers...
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    Re: Bowl back science

    That last referenced paper is one I can understand, and I appreciate the clarity of explanation. The advantages of current math tools are many - weren’t around ‘in my day’! About the nut issue;...
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    Re: Gibson A-50 (43-CPR 7)

    Spending the time and money for an accurate appraisal of an instrument that isn’t playable IMHO, is hardly worth it. To sell it, it’s almost worth having someone go over it, and there are very few...
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    Re: Bowl back science

    Thanks for posting. I tried to draw some useful generalizations from the results, and found that difficult. Perhaps someone might distill it for a somewhat technical audience, or better, builders of...
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    Re: Gibson's 1923 F-5 Master Model Reissue

    “ I don't state they are not good or not worth the price, just pointing that Gibsons advertising talk has to be taken with a pinch of salt.”
    Perhaps 14 degrees of salt.
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    Re: Gibson's 1923 F-5 Master Model Reissue

    And a “fourteen degree radius” - even an AI copywriter wouldn’t do that
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    Re: Stromberg Voisinet tuners explained

    The original S-V tuner is not fastened in the hole at all. Reaction torque is only opposed by the button shaft, which can’t move. Same here, but due to the shape of the new ‘plate’, something is...
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    Re: Stromberg Voisinet tuners explained

    Done, but it’s MK V. The first version using the original gear and worm in a new, solid housing, failed because the gear would be the part that failed and would be expensive to reproduce. The next...
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    Re: Strad-O-Lin in UK 1939?

    This is identical to the one I just patched up (photo attached). It was on CL for rather cheap, with case in January. To settle one disputed claim, the ones with this particular stencil can be...
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    Re: New Mandolin Cafe Hat

    I have more than a few customers, mostly PhDs, if that’s relevant, who would need this particular instruction.
  18. Re: anyone seen/tried a B&J two point like this?

    Could be nearly anything, but is zero-fret and the f-holes aren’t segmented, so maybe european.
    But since it has roses and honeycomb, you need the special tonegard to prevent injury.
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    Re: Neck reinforcement vs a truss rod

    I suspect the acolytes of the F Gibsons and related things, with their scrolls and truss rods, and almost mandatory shoulder straps, have no idea how nice a light mandolin feels.
    Save overhanging...
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    Re: HOG SOL on SGW

    At the same time, this S-V identified as a Bruno started at $8, bid rather high quickly. Maybe a desperate crowd thinks it might have a working tuner or two.
    But you’re right, some of the Goodwill...
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    Re: 1950s Strad-Galiano Oval Hole

    Jeff, from the look of things, I think re-doing all the string slots is in order. Shave a skotch off the top and start clean.
    My theory about the oft-mentioned shimmer of the SOLs is a beat...
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    Re: New Mandolin Cafe Hat

    I lived in Dallas for a few years. Wanted a ‘real’ cowboy hat from the famous company - where there is vast selection and a full-time fitter. Everything looked worse than ridiculous on me, and I...
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    Re: 1950s Strad-Galiano Oval Hole

    So, Galiano as in NYC, NJ, Schmidt, Chicago? If ChiTown, does that imply some SOLs are from there? I think the FBI needs to get involved.
  24. Re: Are pressed sound boards necessarily bad?

    Yes and no. Any small CNC with adequate table size is pretty cheap, new, and otherwise very expensive large hydraulic presses with heated platens are probably cluttering up scrap yards at 10 cents a...
  25. Re: Best power carving tool for arching and graduating tops and b

    Woody, if I understand the problem, you can fix it one of three ways. One, the rubber backing pad if that’s what you’re using, is incorrect for that grinder (HF known for such things!) and doesn’t...
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