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    Eastman neck attachment

    A customer brought over an Eastman MD-315 yesterday. 10 or so years old and the neck has come away completely from the button with a gap around 1.5mm (1/16") and the neck pulling forward to the...
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    Re: A new F-5

    The mandolin arrived at its new home yesterday and the new owner recorded this last night. He plays mostly Irish music and knows where lots of notes are. The mandolin might well be seen around the...
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    Re: A new F-5

    Tavy: Pete Howlett, a ukulele builder up in north Wales uses the Wurth rattle cans quite successfully do it might be worthwhile getting in contact with him and asking some advice.. It is goes on a...
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    Re: A new F-5

    It is a satin rattle can lacquer from Germany, made by Wurth, who have branches out here. One can does a mandolin quite nicely. The top coat over the sunburst is three double coats, cut back very...
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    A new F-5

    Not quite a traditional F-5 but in the sprit of. European spruce and maple, ebony fretboard, Gotoh tuners and an Allen tailpiece. A K&K twin pickup installed with the socket mounted on an extra...
  6. Re: Baritone ukulele fretboard (no mandolin content)

    One of my standard guitar fretboard slotting templates (and I can't recall which one as I am away from home at the moment) will give you close to a 20" scale starting at a higher fret. As long as you...
  7. Re: Hello and thanks all, especially Graham McDonald

    Thank you for the kind words. It is always gratifying to hear that my books have been useful.

    Cheers
  8. Re: Orville H. Gibson research and biography

    It has been a few years since Joyce posted anything here about her biography of Orville Gibson while she has been trying to find a publisher, but I recently came across a link to a GoFundMe page...
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    A European style Octave Mandola

    A new style of instrument, for me at least. A European style Octave Mandola with a 45cm/17.75" scale length made for mandolin orchestra playing. Strung with Thomastik 174 mandola strings. Soundboard...
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    Re: mandocello MC-815 neck reinforcement?

    You might look at European mandocello strings for lighter tension strings. The D'Addario strings .022-.074" are made for 24" carved Gibson style mandocellos, not your short scale bowl back.

    Cheers
  11. Re: Carbon fiber bar from neck to soundhole confusion

    I wondered about the hole in the neck block :grin: For next time, it is best to drill that hole before gluing the neck back to the sides. Simple to do on a drill press with a drill bit the next size...
  12. Re: Carbon fiber bar from neck to soundhole confusion

    Hello Matt,

    Extending the CF bar into the neck block is entirely optional. It does have the advantage of both supporting the end of the fingerboard and helping to keep the neck centred and...
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    Re: Quilted maple in Washington

    We have been in contact through Facebook and he may well come to the convention. Alternatively, a trip to Orcas Is is entirely possible. 8-)
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    Quilted maple in Washington

    While I an in the US next month for the GAL convention in Tacoma WA, I would like to pick up a couple of mandolin sized sets of quilted big-leaf maple. Any suggested timber suppliers within a couple...
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    Re: A couple of new mandolins

    Most definitely for sale :)
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    Re: A couple of new mandolins

    King Billy pine is similar to North American Western Red Cedar. I suppose both King Billy and Huon were called a 'pine' by the early European settlers as they are conifers rather than anything else....
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    A couple of new mandolins

    Off to the US next month for the Guild of American Luthiers convention in Tacoma WA. I will have a couple of new mandolins with me. The latest of the King Billy and Huon Pine oval hole mandolins, and...
  18. Re: The Australian Mandolin Quartet video demo

    I had hoped that an ad in the Classified for the Quartet might have generated an offer or two, but to no avail. I did finally get some of the local mandolin orchestra folks to record a couple of...
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    Re: Bill Bussman passes

    We met once, in 2008 at Zoukfest in Santa Fe, NM, and it was like we had known each other for decades. One of the really good people of the world.
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    Re: Zero fret

    I leave 3mm/1/8" of fretboard behind the zero fret and cut the nut slots just about down to the fretboard surface. One thing to be wary of is making the distance between the zero fret slot and the...
  21. Re: Looking for Beginner Cremonese/Bresciano Mandolin

    The simplest solution is to restring a ukulele with Aquila strings for fifths tuning aka Cremonese mandolin tuning. Same string length and a very cost effective way to experiment with tuning in...
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    Re: Unusual Instrument at a Jam

    We call them lagerphones in Australia. They appeared here in the 1950s, so the Wikipedia info is correct and they appeared in Newfoundland in the 80s, they might have even been inspired by our...
  23. Another mandolin quartet recording

    My friend Tony Hunter, who recorded the instruments of my Australian Mandolin Quartet recently had a prototype mandocello and mandola for a while last year. Here is a Booker T tune he recorded with...
  24. Re: Reviving old tortoise celluloid binding

    The other thing to remember is that celluloid, as it breaks down, gives off a nitric oxide which dissolves in the moisture in the air to form Nitric Acid. I saw an old Gibson A model some years ago...
  25. Re: Reviving old tortoise celluloid binding

    I would try hot water as well. Also thinking that optometrists use hot sand or something similar for adjusting spectacle frames, so Dale's idea sounds very sensible. I don't think the newer tortoise...
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