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I posted many times here and it has been well documented & demonstrated at many of the major luthier...

Bob: Feel free to call the shop and we can nerd out as much as you'd like on the Griffith and other mandolins to get you on the right track. It is a great starting point with a proven body geometry...

All of the historic Gibson A bodies used the same mold and shape, so any one will do.

Combine that body with a longer F5 neck dimensions and you have it. Beyond that, morph and merge the rest as...

WAYYYYYYYYY more fun that sitting around talking for another hour about picks or fretwire! Count me in..... I'd get much more excited talking old cars; Do you still have the one you were showing off...

Well, considering I just got back from a 2+ hour trail run on a Friday night & it was my fourth workout this week, I can only dream about spending as much time practicing my mandolin as I do...

Best for what???????????

The Griffith plan is in the works as we speak....;)

6mm top thickness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF......I know people who bring double bass tops to that...

OK, good the string tension was released. 'My mistake.

But- this IS a mortise and tenon. It also has a Siminoff vestigial dowel pair, but at its heart, there is no denying it is a mortise and...

I don't see this as an issue with the original builder. Mortice and tenon joints like this have been used for hundreds of years without any dowels. It is a well proven and tested design.

It was...

Go to the junkyard or steel recycling place. I see dozens of treadmills in there every time I visit.

In general, those places are a gold mine for creative people who can repurpose other's junk...

Hard to find mahogany big enough for mandolin parts?????????????? I use it for double basses where the neck block is 9" thick and I don't have any issues finding it...

If you listed your location,...

There was a 16/32 on facebook marketplace in Tennessee this week for $150!

Remember that almost all drum sanders use some sort of clip design to hold the sandpaper that effectively limits the...

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I used to have a dog that loved hot hide glue. It would run away with the hot glue pot and anything within reach from the shop........

I've been to the Oberlin Acoustics summer workshops and have seen what it looks like when you use all of the modern technology at hand to analyze how much oscillation happens in a mandolin neck when...

".......40 hrs a week plus 4 kids makes working out a luxury... at least that's my excuse for not doing it...."

If only it were a luxury; your life literally depends upon it!

The best solution for your "Belly Guard" issues:

The bolt on system shown in post number one is very similar to what the original Breedlove necks were like (I have no idea of their current system). I built a couple of hundred mandolins using this...

Brown mandolins sound better than red ones....:popcorn:

I usually only keep one really nice mandolin and one very good, versatile guitar around the shop, but at times I'm know to own a dozen or more upright basses!

More perspective: Upright bass...

The Benedetto book and video series can also be found via the interlibrary loan system.

Yes, about 8 years ago I asked ten of the best mandolin builders in the world some serious truss rod questions. I got about 17 different answers, so....

I made up ten identical necks, with ten...

It is hanging on the wall in his shop, as you walk in the main entrance.

Don't expect any kind of warranty when you bring your back of Home Depot dumpster diver wood and ask someone else to build something from it!

Does anyone know the story behind the A5 that a very young Sam Bush is playing in this video?

It is not the Griffith A5; maybe an early A50 conversion or something similar?

'Amazing how young...