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Hi Graham,

Thank you so much for so fastidiously and beautifully hand crafting my MandoCello for me. It is a stunning instrument with wonderful resonance and sustain and compliments my Mandolin...

There once was a woodbutcher named Kemnitzer,
Whose brain I picked at my bench,
Cuz his mandos resembled sonic fine art.
While mine were like lipstick on a wrench

Yes it’s a 1905 Gibson. They had slotted headstocks for about a year in between the initial paddle heads and the later solid headstocks. Here is my 1905 Style 0-2. Yours has been refinished, has a...

Rough crowd out there in mando nerd world today....

Here lies all the answers to your questions:

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/138621-6-mandolins-in-2-days?highlight=condino+test
...

I finally finished the bouzouki I have been working on for almost a year. Here are a couple of photos. It is a thrill to actually string it up and play it.
Thanks for all of the advice I have...

As Graham, I think your original string gauges are way over the top: not only will you have to build the body like a tank, but you would struggle to make a neck strong enough to withstand the tension...

Before bowing out of this discussion, I just wanted to give a special shout out to the response by Graham McDonald. He really hit the nail on the head on so many levels. It would appear that he...

After many years of searching I recently managed to acquire a tenor mandola to form a trio of matching instruments made about a hundred years ago in London by John E Dallas. They all share common...

I like the harp tones in sympathy (!) to the melody. Nice sound, Graham!

For your convenience, here is the soundfile embedded.

https://soundcloud.com/graham-mcdonald-4/midnight-on-the-water

If you want the real "mandolin encyclopedia," I recommend Graham McDonald's The Mandolin: A History, which covers not only the waterfront, but the entire coastline.

The long Wikipedia article...

Guild of American Luthiers

(Still enjoying the book, Graham)

This quote is attributed to Bob Taylor:

"We should find the guy who decided guitars should be shinny, dig him up and kill him again!"

I found this catalog at an estate sale last week. I had posted it on FRETS, but thought it might be of interest to the people here, because of the mandolin content. ...