...or any number of custom builders.
This is exactly the type or reason to go to a custom builder; to get the exact neck profile you want. The thing...
Keep your layer of shellac sealer as thin as you can. I've never had problems with very thin shellac sealer coats under lacquer, but thicker shellac...
Sherry: you are on the right track. Play every local one you can for sure. You may find one that excites you. If not you will have a good idea if you...
This could be some variant of the Filipino bandurria which, if so, would be strung in double-string courses, not like a mandriola. Those instruments...
I have relatively small hands for a person of the male persuasion. If I were commissioning a mandolin I would use my 23 snakehead A-2’s neck which is...
Yes, Gibson’s illogical system. Sorta logical up to the 1920s then in the 1930s they started using the retail price to distinguish some instruments....
Braces serve more than one function. Braces (or tone bars) do function as beams to distribute string/bridge load, but that is a static function. They...
Probably not because there isn't really a whole lot of science out there pertaining to brace position, so it would be hard to site science supporting...
The Schaller grandtunes are good, I just don't like them because I think they're ugly and the gear ratio is so high (18 to 1?) that it takes forever...
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