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    #11 mando and #12 guitar almost ready to leave the bench for their new homes.

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    Very, very nice!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dusepo View Post
    Thanks! Yes, the bridge is further down than on a modern mandolin, certainly (though not relatively more so than a baroque mandolin of the same era). It might be to do with fixed vs floating bridge. I am using a bracing pattern based on this surviving instrument by Voboam:

    The sound of a baroque guitar is quite different to that of a modern guitar - more delicate and with lots of 'campanellas' ('little bells') facilitated by the re-eantrant tuning, where the melody is between the thumb and fingers and rings out differently. This video gives a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC7JNE8TdmY
    That's one of the nicest things I have heard in a long time, thanks.
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    Real nice!
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ID:	172603 Just spent a week making rims and have ended up with a dozen each of F and A styles.. I came across some nice figured maple and cut into rim slats.. With the scrap leftovers I guess I will form up the rest of the parts for the F style rims.. This batch has been exceptionally easy bending over the hot pipe.. Seems that some batches bend like butter when sawed with proper grain direction.. The weather has turned cooler so now's the time for the heat work...
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    sliebers, It bent well. I had a bit of warping across thye side but that was operator error I think. I think I had the blanket too hot.

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    [QUOTEI have more of that log available if anyone is interested....][/QUOTE]

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    Here's the body 6 course of a renaissance lute I'm currently building:

    and here's the rose I carved for it:
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    starting my first F5 build ( and first acoustic after 20 years of building electrics) using the Stew mac kit. I found a nice piece of Claro Walnut in the scrap bin for the headstock overlay . just rough cut for now. Click image for larger version. 

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    #4,5,6 on the bench 2 F5s and a 3 point. Facebook Hagerty mandolins
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    Renaissance lute and baroque guitar almost finished...



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    The grain in that milti-piece guitar back is amazing, Jo. I am assuming it is multi-piece with the recurring pattern? Once again, lovely instruments.
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    The grain in that milti-piece guitar back is amazing, Jo. I am assuming it is multi-piece with the recurring pattern? Once again, lovely instruments.
    Thanks! And yes that's correct. It's multi-piece London plane.
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    Couple of shots of my Dudenmonster project (slow progress) as I've glued the top to the sides. I made up some fresh hide glue, heated up the surfaces with my heat gun first to buy a little time. I didn't try to be too neat with my gluing but was surprised when I took the clamps off to see that I wasn't sloppy at all.
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    I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.

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    I guess technically off my bench now... I just leveled the finish (Royal-Lac) and am waiting for it to cure.

    I also built the shelves and the picture frames for our new nursery!

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    And my mandolin is starting to take very rough shape.

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    The K4 style, with aperture, Mandocello rim and soundboard just came out of the mold after the glue up.. Really happy with how it looks so far.. Check out the playlist of the build here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...YC8NYCNPNDb-xJ

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    I scored some Macassar Ebony for a good price on flea bay ... I have been very pleased with how nicely it works (I've never worked ebony before). .... first coat of poly this evening:

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    A pair of mandos: one for a friend and one for my three-year-old daughter. The smaller mandolin will have an 11" scale and four strings. It will be tuned to standard GDAE. The idea is to have something (a) with low string tension, and (b) small enough so a child can learn proper chords. Both mandolins have a treble sound hole and a bass side port. Both have a forward-shifted bridge like the original A-5.
    There's a lot of cleaning up and gap filling to do.
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    I applied the sunburst last night. Here are a couple of shots of the two backs. The full-size mando is the quilted maple and the short-scale mandolin is the curly maple.

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    Just finished this "Man-jo!" The customer came up with that name and I like it better than banjo-in! It's loud! Hopefully the heavy rim will keep it from potato-chipping like so many of the old ones have.
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ID:	173544 a semi hollow with Ebiara / flame maple core Cocobolo top and Rosewood back . The neck is Mahogany/Ebony a 20th anniversary project for the shop

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    Done! Finished at 11pm on NYE. It definitely has a handmade, first-instrument aesthetic, but it sounds amazing!
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