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It’s best to go from the outside of the neck , through the neck into the neck block. The direction of the arrow in the thumbnail sketch by Mike.

From the pictures you have shown us it doesn’t look like a dove tail. It looks more like a mortise and tenon joint. Probably let go due to wood shrinkage. If you want to try it yourself I would first...

I used to get slotted fingerboards from Luthiers Mercantile. They went out of business. Had a friend build a digital read out slotting jug. He just finished it and I haven’t tried it yet.

My 2 cents worth. I don’t do carved top. Only flat tops. I do oval hole for two reasons. I like the way it looks. Y think it gives more top surface between the bridge and the sound hole.
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By saying you don’t have to move out of 1st position are they implying it might be tuned in 4ths not 5ths?

Another factor to consider is bracing. Stiff (or over braced) top will emphasis higher frequencies. An arch (carved) top with react much different than a flat top. Trouble is that there are very few...

When you think about it an octave mandolin is almost the same frequency range as a guitar. So why not the same body size and scale length?

I just skimmed the post so forgive me if I repeat something that has already been said. The tailpiece may not have been plated. Brass instruments are sometimes finished with a gold colored lacquer....

Of course violins are a little different in that there is no binding and the top and back overhang the sides. But, this is a common problem with violins. The top or back shrinks I little and the...

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I will be starting my tenor lute build in a week or two. I will start a new thread for the build. I plan to post here on “Tenor Guitar” rather than the build tab. (I seems heavy into F-5...

CA regular or gel?

I’m sure this subject has been discussed many times before. But, there might be some new ideas out there. I have just recently started adding carbon rods to my necks. I have read that you should use...

I recently did a guitar to mandocello conversion. The donor guitar was a Guild Jumbo Junior. Slightly shorter scale than a full sized guitar. Here is my thought process. When you do drop D tuning on...

First, you might get more responses in the CBOM section of the forum.
Second, what is the scale length?
Third, I think the D’Addario mandocello strings are too heavily for any flat top mandocello....

Richard, I noticed you are in Williamsburg. This is not mandolin related but musical instrument related. The annual Harp Guitar Gathering will be in Williamsburg this November. I wish I could go but...

If you have an old credit card lying around cut a rectangle that will fit under the bass foot of the bridge. If the buss goes away I would say your bridge is a bit to short.

You probably need to list it in the classified section with pictures.

John, as an amateur builder for 60 years I have realized that most musicians know very little about their instruments. In my youth I had an old student grade guitar with a movable bridge. I work very...

I would like to find this kind of tailpiece.
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“What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
Ecclesiastes 1:9

I guess I don’t have enough scientific background to know about checking with magnesium chloride.

I have two inexpensive humidity gauges. One on the main floor of our house and one in the basement. My wife has been saying that the basement was damp but the gauge read 50%. So I took the one from...

I build mostly flat top instruments. I glue the fingerboard to the neck, finish carving it, then tap the frets in with a hammer as I was taught at C F Martin.

I have a standard violin. If you look at each peg from the head toward the scroll (peg box) the bass pegs must be turned counterclockwise to raise the pitch and the treble pegs clockwise to raise the...

“ On a violin the pegs are Horizontal and they all turn the same way to tune upwards.” Not True! You turn the bass pegs counterclockwise and the treble pegs clockwise. That is because you are winding...