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Hi all: Thanks for all of the suggestions. I've decided to go with Bruce Weber. Looks like the Gibson will get a new top.

Bad day yesterday. Took a tumble off a chair and damaged the face of my Gibson F5. My elbow smashed into the face next to the tailpiece pushing in the wood, several breaks next to the side and a 5...

I've found the mandola to work great in a Django setting. The lower range gives it depth and there is lots of nice crisp high range to work with. And I find it's an excellent rhythm instrument -...

I was on the waiting list for an Austin Clark Octave, but when I got the call from Austin, I realized that my newly arthritic wrist would could not handle the larger neck. So I asked him to build me...

The tail piece on my Eastman 815 mandola failed. I elected to go with an Allen. Looks great, might even have improved the sound.

I like to use mandola when playing blues and swing tunes. It took a little bit of practice to get the swing style chords sounding good - all strings playing clear.
It is especially satisfying when...

This looks very interesting. I will follow up on it.
Thanks, Lord of All Badgers.

Ended up replacing the stock tailpiece with an Allen AR-2. It's hard to tell if it improved the sound, but the instrument sounds really good. While I was at it, I also replaced the stock nut with a...

The Eastman Mandola strings are about 2 inches from the outside C to the outside A on the bridge. The Eastman saddle is wider than the Cumberland mandola saddle. If one were to keep the same spacing,...

Anyone successfully installed a Cumberland bridge on an Eastman 815 Mandola? It seems a little narrow for the width of the neck.

Will a standard mandolin tailpiece work on a mandola?

A tong on my 815 Eastman mandola broke off. Any suggestions for a tailpiece replacement?
I wont replace with an Eastman tailpiece.