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The insert send and return is internally connected "normalled" when nothing is plugged into them. This means your signal passes uninterrupted from input to output when nothing is plugged into the...

I did a similar thing as Soliver. A furnace squirrel cage blower. It never produced enough suction to pull all the fumes out. I found an explosion proof fan similar to the one in the link. I...

I was one of the lucky winners of the Stringjoy mandolin string giveaway a couple weeks ago.
I chose the coated Foxwood 11-40s to try out. My favorite strings of the past were Daddario EXLs,...

I could not get FP over oil to work for me either. It was too much work on the top around the fingerboard extension. I too had checking of the shellac later on.
Do you wipe on Truoil, or spray...

I don't disagree with you. I'm just stating why I use it based on my experience. Gibson adds a lot of plasticizer to their nitro. It peels off like you described even on the most expensive Les...

Alkyd based oil varnish is softer than lacquer and never quite hardens like lacquer does over time. The way I do it takes 10 times the effort over lacquer. I like the look, I can get it very thin...

There are a few of us up here. Lots of guitar repair shops, but not many having expertise with mandolins. I've found it helps to be a proficient player to do great fretwork and setups. That's not...

Me performing with upper midwest great, Chris Silver, both on mandolins I built. Link below

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https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/watch-chris-silver-and-scott-liebers-tico-tico-no-fuba/

Welcome to the club. You will do lots of things over if you continue the path of building these beasts.

I had the opportunity to stretch my musical boundaries sitting in with a Latin Funk Fusion band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdvnn5y6-1Q

I'm still learning what to say no to. It takes getting burned on a few jobs before you can figure out what to charge, or to simply say no.

If the other strings are stable, I would suspect the nut, or the saddle slots for the A strings have worn and are now causing the strings to bind.

Not doubting the quality of work, but to command 2-3 times what other reputable shops do is hard for me to understand.

The danger is associating the higher price with better quality of work. ...

An amazing mandolin, and amazing player. Very pleased to see this video.

I was also pleased to see/hear it being captured by 2 vintage Neumann Km84 microphones into a Great River 2NV preamp. ...

Steven Anderson has listed a number of arch top guitar size tops in the classifieds. A lutz spruce one here; https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/186438#186438

I don't get that at all. Did those tuners come new with the mandolin? I've never had luck with GA tuners. A Duff mandolin deserves better tuners.

Another approach would. be to drill a hole through the top and angle through the crack. Then epoxy in an 1/8" CF dowel. If the crack will close, you should HHG it first and clamp together with...

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A few things from my workbench this fall. Octave mandolin and #17 F5.

Went down that rabbit hole many, many years ago. Carved 2 sets of tone bars down to nothing. Too many variables. The biggest challenge was determining what the actual frequency of the fundamental...

Any thoughts to do 3D files of your plans Adrian?

I'd be suspect of the arching on those files. There doesn't appear to be a recurve, and the scroll spine looks very flat. Hard to tell as these are rendered drawings. Anyone out there use these...

I have the Jet 16/32 drum sander. It does an ok job. The "smart sand" controller fizzed out within a week of use. Lead screw wears out and won't stay at a consistent height. I'll often run...

Thanks Chris. This was a special case, where the guitar was essentially destroyed. Not anything I'd recommend for anything in good playable shape to start with.

Or, find someone crazy enough to do this... I swore to never do another. I repaired one of my own builds about a year later the same way. Someone sat on it and cracked the X braces. Twice is...

I would avoid drop filling with lacquer as it's going to shrink down over time requiring lots of fill and sanding sessions. Also, takes a long time to cure before you can sand and buff.
I would...