aaargh ... color me green ...
Type: Posts; User: wtaylor
aaargh ... color me green ...
Actually, I'm awfully fond of oval soundholes - can't wait to see it taking shape. Keep posting as you go ...
You know, a wormhole in a mandolin, you could be sending music across the universe -- the John Creighton of the mando world!! Bringing old-timey to distant civilizations in far-off galaxies. Don't...
Hey guys,
check out Harbor Freight #08826-2czb
22 small (1", 1-3/8" asst.) plastic spring clamps @$3.99
almost as cheap as clothespins
Great opportunity to join the oval hole club ...
that worm may have been sent for a reason, you know.
I just bought it, it is beautiful, well-written, gorgeous instruments. Will need to sit on the coffee table for a while as I've just started a mando, but my next project is brewing already ...
I've hacked away at my plans a bit more - hacked off the scroll & just left a point at the curve where the scroll would turn, then moved up the lower point inspired by a gorgious Lawrence Smart model...
It appears obvious, that without informing anyone, Bill has moved from New Mexico to Australia ...
Not sure from your description exactly what you're looking for - but how is this:
http://www.luth.org/plans/pl03.jpg
from http://www.luth.org/
So the real question is, how's it sound?
Thanks!
Sure enuff!
Downloaded it, thanks for the tip.
Also a nice flat-top octave mandolin there, I downloaded for my son, who has huge hands and plays an octave as if it were a standard mando.
The area of an elipse is (refer to diagram below):
pi*radius1*radius2
or
pi*(axis1*axis2)/4
- so for an elipse to have the same area as a known circle, you need to product of its 2 radii...
I don't find these on this site either -
I do know that on the site of the Guild of American Lutheriers (http://www.luth.org/), there are two sets of Mando plans:
Plan #15 Modified F-3 Mandolin...
Here's a pic of when he got so ticked, he plugged up the F-holes (gum & chewing tobacco, I'm told) & converted it to an F4. #X-braced. A little-known fact.
;^)
That's your's huh Gavin?
Damn, it's beautiful.
Ah - looks like he compromised - joined at the 14th fret!(traditional F4 at 12th, F5 at 15th) - which for the same scale length, moves the bridge down about 3/4 inch from the position demanded by a...
Rob,
can you tell me about your design? Did you join the neck at fret 15 & so run into this?
Look in the "Post a Picture of your Mandolin" forum, for the thread on Headstock Pictures. Lots of great close-ups there.
Yeah, all those pics of him actually had the f-holes photoshopped in ... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
In case this ever is interesting to anyone else, I've...
Here's the kind of thing I had in mind - (sorry about the brutal surgery to this gorgeous old instrument ...)
Dave, I see your point re the bridge position - the F4's have the bridge down about...
Am wondering if anyone can direct me to plans for F4(-ish) mandos? [oval soundhole, preferably 2-point]
I have Robert Steineger's F3 plansheet (from www.luth.org), and have found the Simonoff plans...
You mentioned you're using handtools. Don't know if you're already trying this, but one thing that can't hurt is to clamp a thick scrap block onto your pc and use it as a fence...
Will this work...
Troughton's book looks quite good. There are scaled plans for one each flat-top mandolin, mandola and octave mandolin, with detailed measurements and construction details. Overall shape similar to...