Post a picture of what's on your bench?

[Glassweb]

looks fantastic!

[David Newton]

Bluestown L-0 neck glued. Getting close!

[Dobe]

On and recently completed stuff:
50's ish Super 400 with some side separation.



50's Harmony X-conversion I'm extremely happy with.



Lyle L5- copy got a neck reset, surprisingly nice guitar.



Weymann 4-5 conversion.



Tiple build getting close.



Torrefied Lutz on some beautiful Cocobolo.



Cheers !

[Dan Douris]

Not on the bench but my shop floor. I have no room on my bench...

[J.Sloan]

Wow Dan, you're really on the move these days! Nice work...looks good.

[J.Sloan]

Slowly coming along with my first F4 build. The toughest part of this so far was getting the 4 degree angle built into the soundboard to match the pitch of the neck. A huge thanks to Peter Coombe for his detailed web pics about this process.
Traditional short scale, mahogany neck, one piece red maple back, Carpathian spruce top, X braced.


sloanmandolins.com

[Dan Douris]

Wow Dan, you're really on the move these days! Nice work...looks good.

Thanks, Jason! I will have a vendor table @ the Wilmington Wintergrass Festival in Delaware this March. So I am hustling to get these 3 mandos finished up for the show. Your A4 is look prety sharp!

[Clinchriver]

D-28 Neck

[Pjones3]

[Bluetickhound]

A5

[Matt Harris]

Guitar bodied mandola, cherry back, mid-carve.

[j. condino]

The absolute best sounding and playing 1931 National Duolian I have ever heard or played getting a neck reset and setup. Original cone and biscuit with the patent number.

Tool geeks will notice the original "smaller" Emmert K2 vise, circa 1940s; the model up, my K1 universal is twice the size and on the bass workbench!

j.
www.condino.com
www.kaybassrepair.com
on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Condino-Str...6588557518578/

[j. condino]

Two more: a crisp new herringbone D18 dovetail with Brazilian rosewood binding and a BAAAAAAADDDDDDAAAAAAA$$$$$$$$ 1932 ALCOA bass that I spent about 45 hours polishing.

j.
www.condino.com
www.kaybassrepair.com

on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Condino-Str...6588557518578/

[Bluetickhound]

The absolute best sounding and playing 1931 National Duolian I have ever heard or played getting a neck reset and setup. Original cone and biscuit with the patent number.

Tool geeks will notice the original "smaller" Emmert K2 vise, circa 1940s; the model up, my K1 universal is twice the size and on the bass workbench!



j.
www.condino.com
www.kaybassrepair.com
on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Condino-Str...6588557518578/

That Duolian doesn't happen to belong to a Mr. S. Ainslie, does it?.. He has the best sounding one I've ever had in my grubby little meat hooks...

[j. condino]

Nope, it is local.

[CES]

Duuude...that bass is spectacular!!!

[Karl Hoyt]

My first two mandolin builds: the black-bound one is made with Adirondack spruce and some locally harvested curly maple. The cream bound one is made with englemann spruce and some of the lovely old standard 'common' grade maple, which has more curl than what some people call AA. People know me as a guitar and bass builder, and two customers who own a few of my instruments challenged me to build them an F5. I told them I've never built one and they replied "you'll figure it out" ... well, I am and, frankly, shocked with how great they sound strung up 'in the white' .... they're fun. Many thanks to Max Girouard and Jon McLanahan for their tips and pointers......

The other picture is that of sides for an 1880's German upright bass I'm completely rebuilding. The sides were made of such squirrely wood, which was terribly cracked and dry rotted in two places, so we decided to go with an all new rim. Funny working on teeny tiny mandos and then an instrument that needs its own zip code :-).

Karl

[billhay4]

Nice looking work, Karl. Let's hear them.
Bill

[Avi Ziv]

This is on my bench right now - the resurrected build of Graham McDonald's Celtic model mandolin and my first build from scratch, which began a few years ago. Neck shaping is in progress.

[amowry]

Some headstock overlays and fretboards, ready for inlay next week.

[sblock]

Some headstock overlays and fretboards, ready for inlay next week.

I just love the look of your Art Deco-style headstocks for the A5-model, with those lovely burl inlays!! Genius design.

[Karl Hoyt]

Nice looking work, Karl. Let's hear them.
Bill

Haha..... I don't know that you want to hear me play them: (mandos) the three chords I know get pretty repetitive :-). When the bass is done I can shred that up pretty well (my main instrument) . But i will send a sound byte when the finish is on them.

[Karl Hoyt]

Question for Andrew Mowry (if it's not breaking trade secrets) on the F style faceplate, do you cut that on the CNC and do the white stripe like a purfling strip on a violin? On subsequent I'm definitely going to get my shopBot do some of the work like slotting, making faceplate veneers, roughing out the top and back plates etc......Thanks in advance.....

Karl

[amowry]

Hi Karl, I do cut the overlay on the CNC, but both the black and white are celluloid binding. You could definitely do it like violin purfling, though--that would probably make the whole process easier.

[Karl Hoyt]

Hi Karl, I do cut the overlay on the CNC, but both the black and white are celluloid binding. You could definitely do it like violin purfling, though--that would probably make the whole process easier.

Thanks for getting back to me, Andrew.......it's really great work. I checked the piece on fixturing that you put on that Maker's magazine.... very helpful info for me... I've had a CNC machine for 3 years and am ready to finally make the 3d step..... thanks and take care.

Karl Hoyt