Post a picture of what's on your bench?

[soliver]

Been Cranking out a lot of Armrests lately. I found a lovely little piece of East Indian Rosewood in the scrap bin at the local Rockler. ... Never worked it before, but this piece is very nice.... The Rosewood Armrest is on the left of a piece of Sapele that came from the scrap bin of Marty Jacobson's shop that I am finishing up for someone her on the cafe.

[Dusepo]

Some lacewood AKA London plane for the next build.


A cherry and meranti body just finished.


Fitting pegs for medieval lute.



Shellac drying in the spring sunshine on a medieval lute with cherry body and an oud arbi with sapele and meranti body.

[fox]

Rebuilding an old ovation six string.....

[garryireland]

That ovation looks cool Fox

[muleskinnermandos]

Another batch of Muleskinner mandolins out in the wild.

Videos and audio clips are coming soon!!!

[Martin Ohrt]

These are really beautiful, Andy!

[fscotte]

Well, not technically on my bench any longer.

[RHDean]

Restoring an old Stella Lead Belly 12 string H912, got a lot of work to do

[RHDean]

Another batch of Muleskinner mandolins out in the wild.
Went to your site, wow, I mean ...just WOW, you have some awesome instruments, both in beauty and sound(I listened to Whiskey before breakfast) Some people prefer the classic instruments and long time originals, no problem with that, but I prefer a custom build from a luthier such as yourself. If...and that's a big if, I get at least good enough to justify a classy instrument such as yours, I may be calling on you.

[muleskinnermandos]

Thanks so much Martin

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Another batch of Muleskinner mandolins out in the wild.
Went to your site, wow, I mean ...just WOW, you have some awesome instruments, both in beauty and sound(I listened to Whiskey before breakfast) Some people prefer the classic instruments and long time originals, no problem with that, but I prefer a custom build from a luthier such as yourself. If...and that's a big if, I get at least good enough to justify a classy instrument such as yours, I may be calling on you.

Thank you so much for the kind words. Always looking for a new challenge and working with players directly like yourself.

[RHDean]

Who' Martin????

[Dobe]

17" Redwood topped/Maple archtop, done spraying.



and, finally getting to the full restoration of my 20's D-21.

[muleskinnermandos]

Another batch of Muleskinner mandolins out in the wild.

Videos and audio clips are coming soon!!!

And here are a couple of video/audio clips of the mandolins as previously mentioned.

#009 Blue Burst (walnut//adirondack spruce): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3-P32K3wDw&t=17s

#010 Black Top Mandolin (tasmanian blackwood/adirondack spruce): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CjBpujLt4s

#012 Oval hole (yellow birch/adirondack spruce): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsw8_Gl3de0

[Chris Pritchett]

20" scale two-point octave mandolin with violin style edges. One piece rippled sycamore back.

[banjomanwv]

[banjomanwv]

Finally got a chance to sit down at my CNC and figure out how to bind the mandolin fingerboard while it was still on the CNC so I could cut my frets slots after it was bound and not have any glue in the fret slots

[soliver]

I've been working on a custom order for a Cafe Member that I thought was worth sharing: this fellow asked me to inset a "Hobo Nickel" Penny into an East Indian Rosewood Armrest. I've learned that a "Hobo Nickel" is when someone uses engraving tools to reshape the relief image on a coin to whatever they want. This fellow is a big fan of Garcia so he felt this coin engraved with the Grateful Dead lightning bolt would be a great tribute to that! I'm super pleased with how it's turned out:

[Pete Jenner]

oops.

[Pete Jenner]

20" scale two-point octave mandolin with violin style edges. One piece rippled sycamore back.

Love it.

[Dusepo]

Turkish oud and renaissance cittern

[MandoCando]

Very beautiful!!

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Turkish oud and renaissance cittern

This is lovely! I've love to see this finished.

[MandoCando]

Turkish oud and renaissance cittern

Hello, I took a moment to review your website and I'm wondering why the headstock tips back like that. I'm very curious about it and wondering what the case looks like. I will be visiting Europe in 2019, and am now wondering how I'm gonna get one of these back with me.

[Dusepo]

Very beautiful!!

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This is lovely! I've love to see this finished.

Thanks! I posted a thread about the finished cittern, you can see it here: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/s...ished-building
The oud will be finished soon.

Hello, I took a moment to review your website and I'm wondering why the headstock tips back like that. I'm very curious about it and wondering what the case looks like. I will be visiting Europe in 2019, and am now wondering how I'm gonna get one of these back with me.

That pegbox angle is normal for lutes and ouds. You can see many cases suitable for this instrument on google image search, which gives you an idea of how they work: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ou...w=1920&bih=930

[John Kelly]

Another fine instrument, Jo.

[MandoCando]

Thanks! I posted a thread about the finished cittern, you can see it here: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/s...ished-building
The oud will be finished soon.



That pegbox angle is normal for lutes and ouds. You can see many cases suitable for this instrument on google image search, which gives you an idea of how they work: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ou...w=1920&bih=930

Thank you for sharing this information! Such a beautiful instrument. I'm starting a separate savings for this to pick up on the trip! :-)