Originally Posted by
Mark Gunter
A picture is worth 1,000 words. To illustrate what I wrote in my last post, I went to google to find some images. Although I'm not a luthier, if I were to build a mandolin with a dovetail neck joint, I'd orient the block as illustrated below. I have very strong reasons for this having to do with the longevity of a quality build, in my opinion, due to the minuscule movements of wood over the decades, and based on many years of fine woodworking experience.
As best I can understand from google images, that first image is from a kit someone sells - and the grain of the block runs counter to the grain of the neck, which in my opinion is poor engineering. The second image is Peter Coombe's, and the third is Troy Harris.
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