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Or maybe I'll just stay up too late and do it tonight.

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Working on finishing up the rim, including installing a keystone piece to match the Sapele strip on the back. Planning to glue on the top on the coming days.

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I can't help wondering what it sounds like.

99 bottles of beer on the wall...

Roughly 25 yrs ago, I went to the Atlanta College of Art and after 4 years I received a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts with a Concentration in Sculpture. It's where I learned the basics of...

Thanks guys. That one went to its new home in Oregon a few months back. I'm excited about this one as it's a departure from the Army/Navy pancake shape. Just finished up bracing the top following the...

I hear you Bill, I just found the natural beauty of the wood attractive... it turned out beautiful and it sounded awesome on the last instrument, so I'm repeating the process.
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Starting my next flat top; Douglas Fir top and some lovely Birdseye Maple for the back with a 1/8" strip of Sapele in the middle.

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The fir top on my last build sounded so nice I...

I love the glue up when gluing the top to the rim... I feel like that's when it really starts to look like what I saw in my head before I started!

Not a fan of the finishing process... it feels...

James, I would definitely like to see video, hopefully you can get it posted somehow! If I had the time and money, I'd gladly take a trip up from to spend a day, but that's not in the cards! Thanks...

Resurrecting this thread because its been on my mind and something I've been working on here and there and finally finished last night...

A few months back a friend who is an HVAC Technician gave...

Thanks all!

I like this set up Clark Mandolins uses:


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AX17AZ4Mkmw&pp=ygUcRG92ZXRhaWwgbmVjayBqb2ludCBtYW5kb2xpbg%3D%3 D

Agreed 100% ... I play very regularly at a jam and have played both an F hole and oval hole at said jam. What I have found is that while an oval has a place in one's arsenal, it typically gets lost...

Another vote here for RedEye. I haven't played plugged in in quite a while, but I do have a K&K in my SA and used to play in the worship band at church. I had the RedEye with a tuner run through the...

Are you looking for the name of the builder who made the mandolin on the cover of that book? It looks like one of Marty Jacobson's!
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Can't imagine ever parting with my Silverangel Econo A. It hits all my marks and does everything I want it to, therefore I'm pretty sure I have possession of my Holy Grail. So I'll keep working on my...

Definitely experiment with strings. I had an instrument I felt was a little too shrill for my liking and replaced the strings with Flat-wound strings and liked the tone much better.

As Rob says...

It's been a while since any of us have been on this thread and I recently remembered it! In case any of you pancake fans didn't get to see it on the "Post a Pic of what's on your Bench" thread, I'll...

No 5 is en route to its new owner, and I've been in shop improvement mode for the last month or so... No instruments on my bench yet, ... so I am working on an exhaust system for the shop. I have a...

WOW! ... Beautiful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHwzzSYhHrs&list=WL&index=5

I had put this in my Watch Later on YT and came across it yesterday and was super impressed. Hope you all get a kick out of it like I...

I DO know of a really nice flat top on the market ... just sayin'

Love the look of that sycamore! Such beautiful stuff!

Worked out all of the set up on #5 and took some detail shots; check the Flickr link for all the goodies:https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAUKZT

Its been done and ready for a couple weeks now and I've been...

Very cool Tom! With 3 of my 4 girls being violinists, I've definitely considered building one myself! Yours looks lovely!

Got #5 strung up late last night. Still a few kinks to work out, but essentially it's all done!

It's surprisingly loud in comparison to the others I've built and has a really nice tone. So here...