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  1. Re: Won an auction for an Eastwood Airline mandola - any tips?

    I have an Eastwood, and love it to death.

    My personal use takes it, and also my Gold Tone GEM-5 and my J Bovier / eMando 5-string, beyond the norm. Fingerstyle jazz is easy with a good set-up....
  2. Re: Chase Five string fan fretted, electric/acoustic mandolin

    PM sent!
  3. Re: Successful CBOM conversion: an Irish Cittern Guitar?

    Beautiful!

    I've had one of those 6-course, 9-string mando guitars hanging around for a while (doubled strings on highest three courses, E2 A2 D3 G3G3 B3B3 E4E4). It's been my intention to drill...
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    Re: Tone Dexter w/ Godin A8 anyone?

    Just a thought:

    A friend has a Tone Dexter. We processed a few instruments through tone-shaping, and once the "ideal" target was achieved we fed that signal chain into the TD input alongside the...
  5. Re: New (to me!) Mandola Day! (New Blues Hardware)

    Hmm.

    It's showing as back on sale, my payment is authorized but not processed. What gives?
  6. New (to me!) Mandola Day! (New Blues Hardware)

    I *love* mandola. I'm lucky in that I have particular tastes (oval hole, mostly flat top) which have few options, keeping any aquisition syndrome in check. I have Flatirons from across the eras,...
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    Re: Love for Ovals

    The same difference goes for my multiple Flatiron mandolas. All are Army Navy pancakes. The trussrod models weigh a little more and are less resonant.
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    Re: Alt. tuning and intonation

    If you aren't changing the gauges, as in just retuning for a few tunes, intonation stays much the same.

    I have several mandolins tuned to CGDA which sometimes get bumped to DGDA, and others tuned...
  9. Re: Five Course Flat-top Mandola with Asymmetrical Body

    Beautiful. I love 5-course instruments.

    That close-up photo of the upper fretboard region makes the 13th fret look crooked / out of line compared to the rest. Is it correctly positioned?
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    Re: Yet Another CF Mandolin?

    I haven't gotten a notice about the Kickstarter campaign yet, but saw this pop up on the Klos site.

    https://klosguitars.com/products/carbon-fiber-mandolin

    Is this what we're supposed to use,...
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    Re: Blues Shuffle vs lead double stops

    My suggestion is to play along with blues shuffle videos for acoustic guitar. A lot of times I'll hear something which claims to be blues-y or jazz-y, and it's just bluegrass with a faint accent of...
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    Re: Know of any musician retreat centers?

    Yeah, I wasn't thinking writer's block, but instead of capturing no matter the circumstances. Now, the more chaos around, the more I get on paper and tape / chip... and the more inspiration swirling...
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    Re: Know of any musician retreat centers?

    Hey, Charlie!

    I've had the same fantasy, being able to (variously) compose, write, practice, etc. I hope you find the space to do so.

    In my case, I started folding activities into my day,...
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    Re: When a rookie tries to make a new nut...

    Here's my method. It's not quite as quick and dirty as the half pencil solution, but I've never overcut a slot since adopting it.

    I bought a couple of different sets of nut files from Philadelphia...
  15. Re: A likely contentious opinion on electric mandolins

    Just for fun, here's some examples of people going beyond the narrower boundaries of the acoustic mandolin.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6l0U0j0yCg
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    Re: Affordable 10 string mandolin/mandola?

    Somebody did manage it.

    207239

    Details in the following topic.

    https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/163316-Don%E2%80%99t-shoot-me-Need-Gold-Tone-F12-Mod-advice
  17. Re: Are you ready for a new Carbon/Kevlar Sorensen mandolin?

    Hopefully you'll continue to offer them without pinstripes while I keep building up the cash for one!
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    Re: Fan fret tenor guitars (2022 thread)

    Interesting! Thanks for the pics!

    I've followed more than one discussion over at sevenstring.org regardind which is the optimal fret to have perpendicular to the neck. I can't remember if a...
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    Re: Eastman mandola, C course

    I normally damp the strings above and below the sounding length to be sure I'm not hearing overtones or buzzes and other artifacts. A metallic sound on just one course is strange.

    I also go with...
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    Re: Breaking A-Strings in CGDA tuning

    Locking tuners pinch the strings, so more breakage on the O4+ strings.

    They *are* stronger in the way GG was looking for... a string which makes it to B4 at a 25.5" scale length.

    They way the...
  21. Thread: Brekke Bridge

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    Re: Brekke Bridge

    Does the bridge incorporate the Red Henry holes in the top piece? I seem to recall that he started incorporating that modification recently.
  22. Re: Republic Guitars has a few Highway 49 reso tenors in stock!

    Excellent! I hope you're as surprised and pleased with yours as I was with mine!
  23. Re: The String Instrument Craftsman magazine (no mando content)

    I've been going through them happily for the second time in my life. I used to buy them when we stocked them at a DC-area musical instrument store where I worked in the '80s and '90s. They were full...
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    Re: Philadelphia Luthiery Fret Press Caul

    I 've bought their handzoperated fret press, a set of 10 Hosco fret files (in a little tube), and various other tools from them over the years. I've never been disappointed.
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    Re: Bach cello suite no.1

    As jamman notes, it has the same tuning of CGDA.

    Tenor banjo has a wealth of teaching/learning material which can be used for mandola.
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