Re: Help for a complete noob
You should know that, even here in the US, there are lots of good luthiers who don't have a clue about mandolin. Being smaller and about half the scale length of a guitar, the tolerances for both manufacture and adjustment/setup a FAR more critical; not even the 2X that you might expect, more like 4X the accuracy is required. And, to repeat, many "good" guitar-only luthiers just don't get that. THAT's why folks are pushing you to ask for Rob Meldrum's free set-up e-book: so that when your luthier says "I'll just glue the X to the Y and cut the Z in half", you can evaluate his brilliance or lunacy, as the case may be.
And yes, I have had a luthier suggest lunacy in adjusting an arch-top mandolin (w/ neck & tailpiece in less-than-optimal alignment), even though he had built some beautiful arch-top guitars.
- Ed
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Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
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