Hi Folks, I recently finished up building a hollow body 5 string electric octave mandolin and thought it worthwhile to share with the cafe! Top is sitka with a maple neck and maple back and sides. I came up against a time crunch and had to rush to finish it in time for a gig so ended up doing a quick and dirty 4 coats of shellac for finish and stained the whole thing one color. I'll probably spend a little more time on fit and finish on the next build, but as it's the second instrument I've made all I can really ask for is that it plays in tune and won't pull itself apart... so far so good
I did not do a good job documenting the build process and ended with with some rather random pics of the mando at different stages, but anywho here they are:
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