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Here are a few more pics. One shows the rough carved backs along with a positive casting from a March 1924 Loar back that I used as a template for carving the backs.

It's been a while since I posted on the progress of these mandolins (#3 and #4) See posts #119-#122 (Nov 25, 2003 on thread page 5). Anyway here are some more pics of some of the intermediate steps...

Ach du lieber! Martin Luther is German, no H! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I was working on this tune with my mandolin mentor, Tom Mindte. I also used Bill Monroe's recording of it in the Amazing Slow Downer software. After many agonizing hours, this is what I came up with....

Try again.

Can anybody tell me the vintage of this F4 (or F7 or F10)case? A 1919 whiteface A3 was living in it.
Thanks!

Here is an interesting idea. Kawika attaches a speaker magnet so that it drives a string while picking up an audio signal.

http://www.ukuleles.com/Technology/HulaGirlShaker.html

One thing that I have noticed is that the base of the flowerpot is clearly different on the DMM.

I just turned 55 on 05-05-05.

Dave,
It seems to me that as b approaches zero, the curtate cycloid approaches a straight line. Wouldn't simply by choosing the appropriate b, that one could find a curve that would match any...

I purchased Schaller tuners from Stew-Mac for my first mandolin. As stated in their catalog, the shafts are positioned below the string posts in the original style, but the gears are reverse cut so...

How do you all get the computer to add the oval border around the text on these labels?

The drawback of a basement workshop is the paucity of natural light. Just one little window well.

The contraption on the floor is a duplicarver that I am building. My tonewood stash is under the table.

I keep the drill press on the floor in the corner, so that when I use the Wagner Safe-T-planer, it keeps the sawdust somewhat contained.

I think Beergeek's shop is in his basement, just like mine, and right over on the other side of the Potomac. I am on the Yankee side. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif...

"Bringing Mary Home" by the Country Gentleman http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

But thirteen years ago today a wreck just down the road
Our darling Mary lost her life...

Okay, I am going to mix up a batch of saturated ferrous sulfate and try this on scraps of various species of maple and post the results here. Then y'all can try it out on a spot inside your Loars....

And here is the frontal view:

Here are the two mandolins I have built. The blonde (#1) was completed in 2002. I have been staining, varnishing, stripping, and re-varnishing on #2 since May 2004. It is still a bit rough around the...

TomThumb51 correct me if I am wrong, but if the edge is rough, the fret ends must be sticking out, and the fingerboard must have shrunk from lack of humidity, NOT the other way around.

Buddy Davis told me that he started building mandolins in 1957. Hope I am recalling this correctly.

I break a lot of e strings on setting up nuts and bridges. I just bought individual e strings here:
http://www.juststrings.com/jsb-011l.html

I saw an ad on TV last Sunday showing a older couple accompanying their singing playing an F5 and an autoharp. I am not sure what the commercial was for. Possibly something to do with a bank and...

Euphonon sells ivoriod sheet. Just tell them the size you desire and they charge by weight. Very reasonable.
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