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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Salamander stenciled. A mix of mica, titanium oxide, and iron oxide in a bit of tru-oil. She will be providing her own tiny led stage lights inside the oval hole box!
  2. Re: I want to do an economic study of the careers of luthiers

    I've already made tens of dollars this year at Old Wave Heavy Industries Mandolin Stamping facility , and its only April! I plan to retire soon to start making rotary telephones!
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    Old Gibson pick guard removal?

    Anyone have tips for removal of stuck pick guard without cracking or igniting? Pins seem rusted in. Thanks in advance!
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    No sweat, no tears, just blood from string end poke while setting up in the white.
    Betting that Griffith tribute will Boom, John!
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    Re: Reviving old tortoise celluloid binding

    Alas James, my last dumpster dive was years ago at the Rigel factory a couple of days after they shut down, found nothing, but was saving my sw airlines samsonite space for the local farwood anyway:
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    Reviving old tortoise celluloid binding

    Scored a coil of .080x.250 tortoise celluloid binding at the ASIA convention yard sale in Springfield, Mo. long ago. Wondering if anyone might have a trick for making it more pliable for binding...
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    Re: Guitar shaped mandola (CGDA)

    11"wide lower bout, 13.5" body length, 16" scale, worked better as daeb, no $ above the 5th fret, not much below either!
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Just when you think you're breaking your addiction to mando building syndrome, this stuff falls out of the far wood pile: well tempered curly maple cut by our dentist's great grandfather near Albany,...
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    Re: Let's talk about Virzi's

    All kidding aside, they make swell bolo ties!
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    Re: Notes from the Condino vault

    Where do I sign up for the suitable for framing blueprint? It was Elderly's 1983 Scott Antes A-2 blueprint that started many of us down this long dusty road decades ago, thanks for throwing more fuel...
  11. Re: Finger Plane and/or Gouge Recommendation

    Made a bunch long ago, still reach for whatever is sharpest, lots of blades made from worn yard sale files, still prefer the horsedrawn ibex for braceshaving photo-ops and dna samples.....
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    Re: Framus

    Been playing a Framus cutaway as my outdoor bass since I bought it out of an old house in a ghost town west of us (it had been collecting dust there with a broken neck for 30 years) for $150 40 years...
  13. Re: Judge throws out Gibson's claim that Dean is in contempt of c

    Only email I ever got from Charlie D said I could no longer use their flowerpot. My next one was pipestone/abalone. No complaints......yet!
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Maple octave back, and one of the f holes. No luncheonettes were harmed in the making of the binding, as far as I know!
  15. Re: Shop disc sander for small delicate work

    Race car builder friend once showed me that 20" disc with red semicircle that had once been half the first joint of his thumb. Slow and easy does it!
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Necking again in the shop while waiting for 'monsoon' season to pass. Ebony/quilt, African Blackwood, Brazilian rosewood, Macassar Ebony, brw/curly, ebony, desert ironwood, brw, brw, ironwood. Below...
  17. Re: Gilchrist Using The Tone Traveler On Mike Compton's Mandolin

    Built a mandospanker long ago, strumming a mando all day with a doublepick loaded turntable made the open strings irritatingly loud, did nothing for fretted notes. Maybe if I'd had an Arthur Godfrey...
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    Re: Avenue Guitars in Colorado?

    John sold a bunch of mandolins for me back in the 90's. Total Straight shooter. I even bought a Brazilian Washburn from him for $10 to make a swell festival hat.....
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    After shoveling out this last batch of ovals I was going to enter a 12 step program to break my addiction to mandolin building syndrome(MBS). Then I found a piece of maple cut in Abany, Mo. by my...
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    Re: Building a violin... easier?

    James- Alicia called me out of the blue 20 years ago. She was living over the mtn west of us and packing to move to Mexico. Said come get all this wood before we haul it to the landfill. I was there...
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    Re: Upright Electric Bass Build

    Built a couple, keep one in a corner of the shop for 41" scale hand exercise, has an old fisherman pickup. Got several fingerboards from Randy Allen long ago, built up from there.
    Traded the second...
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Hitched up the horse to shave braces on the octave equivalent of a rotary phone....
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    Re: Quilted Maple

    If I was always playing in a circle of drunk banjo players, I'd use a harder back material, like sugar maple or titanium! For warmer jams, quilted maple is not so scary....
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    Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: TAMCO retirement.

    Thanks for all you've done to expand the mandoworld, and wishing you a long and satisfying retirement. We'll have another Bruichladdich toast if you make it this way again!
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    Re: Can anyone recommend a builder to me?

    No longer taking orders, except from my recently retired lovely wife, but I dig those old oval hole designs updated with x braced Engelmann and radiuses boards. No woods seasoned more than 40 years...
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