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I have made one mandolin from it. www.mlatkinson.com/aman2.htm

I'm up to 27 acoustics, with serial numbers starting at one. The first five were throwaways.

No, it is a one piece with a few distinct grain lines.

latest sinker Redwood topped mando soon to be strung up.
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The mando was one of my builds. The owner brought it by yesterday and I got a good look at it. It is firewood (lacewood firewood). Since he could not guarantee a non-human interaction and I could not...

Not my room. A customer's.

I'm all ears for theories as to how this carnage may have happened.
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The one advantage I can see for the M/T is you can make the entire neck in one piece - no 15th fret 'hump' in future.

I use this contraption'
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If your fretwire is notpre-radiused when purchased, you can make a roller arrangement like this for rolling a curve in the frets.
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Cannot tell from the picture on Elderly's site if this is one of those Chinese bridges with the reversible saddle. Poor intonation on those.

The extension is simply a socket head cap screw, of arbitrary length with an aluminum tube surrounding it. I was initially concerned that the tube did not rotate, but has not been a problem. The...

I modified my tool to make it easier to hold square to the body. I generally use 3-4 passes to get to the depth I need.
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Is the tailpiece an actual Ashton-Baily or one of the knockoffs from China. I sprung for a couple of those knockoffs and discovered that the mounting area was not 'flat'. In pic 3 it looks like the...

With the cost of linear motion components plummeting on the web, you can put together a three-axis contraption like this for under $300.174998

172546 They grow down from the ceiling and you harvest them in the fall. these are almost ripe.

Marquetry can be fun also.166114166115

Here are a couple of Desert Ironwood fretboards. Very hard stuff.164534
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A trio of blue fretboards ready for finish
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More like in the bench than on it.

I try to keep the overall size and 'flavor' of the mandolins similar to those old Gibsons:
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Plenty of room on that headstock for the fifth string.

A/An (insert collective here) of recently finished 4-strings.....
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This headstock uses curly maple binding.
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I like to get a little cross grain veneer in there as well.125629125630

This one has cherry neck, back and sides.

I have three sets of mid-range Schaller F5 tuners on hand. Two of them turn clockwise to tighten the strings and one set turns counter-clockwise to tighten the string. So, am I to understand that the...