aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
I don't post here much, but so many things went wrong and had to be overcome to complete this pair of parlor guitars that I felt like showing them to someone.
A matched pair, one rosewood one mahogany, both euro (Carpathian) spruce, ebony 'boards and bridges, slotted pegheads with diamond volutes, pyramid bridges, ebony binding with wood strip purfling.
John Hamlett
www.hamlettinstruments.com
I'm glad you did John. They are beautiful!
Richard Hutchings
My word, what understated excellence! I’d sure like to have one or both of those cuties next to my Stressless chair.
Wow, John. Those are some easy-on-the-eyes, simple yet elegant beauties. I'll bet they sound at least as good as they look, too.
Congratulations, and thank you very much for bringing them with you!
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Hi Spencer. Did you try using an infrared heat lamp to drop your relative humidity while fretting. Wood swells up with higher humidity and makes the frets resist easily sliding down into the slot. I found this out the hard way, this is even worse if your using tiny Gold Evo frets with their thicker blunter barb profile. The lamps don’t need to be close and are better used at a distance. I use my temp/humidity guage to monitor the effect of my lamps.
"A sudden clash of thunder, the mind doors burst open, and lo, there sits old man Buddha-nature in all his homeliness."
CHAO-PIEN
John, great looking guitars. Your bench work rocks again as always. Your so much went wrong story sounds like most of what I’ve learned. I call it working out the bugs in my process.
I just snagged this beautiful curly Black Walnut and nice Carpathian Spruce for a 000 sister guitar for my Claro/Carpathian F5. I’m open to suggestions on plans and avoiding potential pit falls.
"A sudden clash of thunder, the mind doors burst open, and lo, there sits old man Buddha-nature in all his homeliness."
CHAO-PIEN
THAT is going to be a beautiful pair of instruments!!!
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
I have never found such measures to be necessary.
A couple of years ago, I picked up a useful tip from Frank Ford's frets.com website: knock the square corners off the back of the tang with a file before radiusing the wire. It takes about a minute and a half for a two foot length of wire, and has made my life a lot easier.
A new octave mandolin, 22"/56cm scale with a 13"/33cm wide body. It is for a customer who bought a bouzouki 17 years ago and now wants an instrument a little smaller. It seems to have scaled down well with the body an inch or so narrower than I would ordinarily build. European spruce, Tulip Satinwood body, Queensland maple neck, Indian rosewood fretboard, American maple bindings.
http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com
The Mandolin Project on building mandolins
The Mandolin-a history
The Ukulele on building ukuleles
Wow John, whatever went wrong with building those parlors certainly doesn't show up in the finished instruments! Really fine.
Graham, that is one beautiful instrument. The tulip satinwood is wonderful, and I really like how you let the end graft into the bindings.
Jacob Hagerty, Hagerty Mandolins
James Moodie #8
Michael Fraser #5
Jacob Hagerty #1,#2,#3
1918 Gibson A1
https://www.facebook.com/hagertymandolins/
http://foggymemory.com
http://www.youtube.com/j87571
Looking great Mando2020! Can't wait to see more pictures and hear what it sounds like.
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Random I know... I'm the midst of the final sanding... has anyone ever noticed that Torrified Sitka smalls like maple syrup when you sand it?... is it just me?
I didn't feel like this was worthy of its own thread, and thus seemed like a reasonable place to post it.
Carry on.
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Torrefied wood caramelizes the sugars in the wood, you can read more about it here if you want to learn some new words.
Oh wow... art school did not prepare me to be able to read a paper like that... so... many... big... words
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
My new band name: Lignocellulosic Biomass
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Is this another science tangent?
I started to read the paper, and had to open a dictionary tab on my browser.
Sue
It appears to be taken: https://www.kunm.org/post/axis-revolution
Just like every novel idea I've ever thought I've had . Google is constantly quashing my hopes and dreams...
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Andrew Mowry
Mowry Stringed Instruments
http://mowrystrings.com
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aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
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