Very pretty Steve!
Very pretty Steve!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
An early Wayne Henderson dreadnought #3 getting some love on the workbench:
A Brescian/Cremonese mandolin coming along...
I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
Pretty. Is that a three piece top?
No, it is a one piece with a few distinct grain lines.
MLAtkinson
...do guitar players get GAS?
A baroque mandolin and a Brescian/Cremonese mandolin resting on top of my home-made thickness sander...
...and the same two instruments, with a renaissance lute in the middle, during the shellacking process:
I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
New StewMac Fret Arbor Press System to be assembled and put into use.
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
That must be the most outrageous piece of wood I’ve seen in a very long time.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
Paul,
I figured I had done enough high-end builds that I wouldn't accidentally screw it up!
This little billet of extraordinary quilt was so petite that I had to slip the bass side slightly to fit the scroll. There was about 1/8" to spare (after binding) in total length and barely enough thickness to get the inside edge flat for the arching. Definitely the tightest restrictions by the wood that I have ever had to squeezing out a back.
For the longest time, I had imagined it would be a Sprite Two-Point, but when I realized that I could fit the scroll, it had to be a VX!
Steve
Steve in the white it looks eerily like human skin under magnification. I wonder what angle of cut made this effect? Are you gonna stain it or leave it blond?
"A sudden clash of thunder, the mind doors burst open, and lo, there sits old man Buddha-nature in all his homeliness."
CHAO-PIEN
Steve, that is killer quilt!
A prototype for a new mandolin, with the idea of building a couple of mandolin quartets (2xmandolins, mandola and mandocello) over the next year or so, one set using this design and the other a modified F design. One set will be maple & spruce, the other Australian blackwood and King Billy pine.
Cheers
http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com
The Mandolin Project on building mandolins
The Mandolin-a history
The Ukulele on building ukuleles
http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com
The Mandolin Project on building mandolins
The Mandolin-a history
The Ukulele on building ukuleles
Very nice! Love the look!
My avatar is of my OldWave Oval A
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