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  1. Re: Bridge suggestions for 2000 flatiron festival f5

    You can't go wrong with the RW vintage or Cumberland Acoustic. Both are top notch.
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    Re: Top and back graduations

    Experienced, talented and successful builders seem to have an uncanny ability to evaluate components as they are carving, tapping, flexing and measuring each piece of wood. Their graduations will...
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    Re: Setup work needed

    I live 100 miles from Elderly Instruments in E. Lansing. They have always done a terrific job for me. Call and make an appointment so you don't have to leave it and make another trip to pick it up.
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    Wrinkling purfling

    First time using plastic binding and purling.. Using a .020 purling acetoned to .080 binding. When bending the tight curves, the purling wrinkles. Any suggestions to solve the problem.
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    Re: Mandolin Considerations -- Add to my List

    Randy Wood, for sure.
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    Re: "Powerful/Loud!"

    I avoid jams where there are a whole bunch of players beating on their instruments trying to be heard.
  7. Re: Campanella two-point (How to make an accent on due?)

    Play it a lot for about a year with the daddy-o 74s and revisit the issue in a year.
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    Re: Dots or no dots

    I install side dots on all my mandolins and guitars. I rarely install fingerboard inlays. In my eye, less is more. I am not a fan of over the top bling either.
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    Re: Bass guitar stays quiet !!!

    Amp power switch ON ??????
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    Re: Solving unexpected problems

    "Adjustable Tone Inhibitor". Chuckle, chuckle.
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    Re: Martin vs D'Addario Strings

    I see DAddarios on all my instruments. Helicores on the doghouse and fiddles. J74 on mandolins, EJ17 on my dreads, EJ16 on the OHms.
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    Re: Solving unexpected problems

    Correction: it was a pearloid inlay and a pearloid pick. Not ivoroid.
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    Re: Martin vs D'Addario Strings

    Tried them all years aago.Used GHS for a while. I have stuck with Daddio 74 for many years. No reason to try anything else.
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    Re: Solving unexpected problems

    I had a similar issue with the fingerboard on a 50s Gibson dread. The inlays were rounded trapezoids and I scorched one of them. I had an ivoroid pick that I cut and glued in. Perfect match.
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    Re: Where Sitka spruce grows

    The only answer is to eliminate the demand for sitka spruce. Which means that we quit building or switch to other materials.
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    Re: Mandolin Influences

    I am an old coot and my first memory of a mandolin was hearing J B Hammitte playing with his brothers in church. That was about 65 years ago. When I heard Monroe play, I was hooked. I tried to play...
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    Re: Satin NC lacquer how to advice needed

    Rub it out with Rottenstone.
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    Re: New White Face mandolin

    My first attempt at a hand rubbed sunburst finish took a bad turn when I did the top. It looked awful. Looks great with a black top, though
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    Re: Building a violin... easier?

    You can still walk away and save yourself. Building violins is kinda like pistachios. You can't build just one. I say read everything that you can find on the subject. Go for it.
  20. Re: IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year Finalists for 2018

    There are very few playing bluegrass as defined. Most of the singers sound the same. Ditto the mandolin players and Tint Rice clone guitar players. I got rid of XM \Serius because there was no...
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    Re: The home stretch

    I get the homestretch feeling when I am opening the pack of strings.
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    Re: Ultimate Bluegrass All Star lineup

    Everett and Bea Lilley with Don Stover . Tater Tate, Bass. Paul Warren, fiddle.
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    Re: Quilted maple

    Mike- fellow Michigander here. Picked with you years ago at the Oil City Festival. I get my quilted maple from the woodwell.com. They will post pics and you can choose. I have built 2 mandolins with...
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    Re: torrefied wood

    If the rumor got around that the "top" builder were soaking their tops in cow urine, other builders would try it and some pickers would buy it. I am one one who has zero confidence in torrified wood.
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    Re: questions about hide glue

    Warm both sides of the joint before applying glue. Dry run your clamping procedure until you are confident. If the glue starts to get too thick, just add a little water to get the consistency you...
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