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Not to nitpick too much I heard that attributed to Chet Atkins. I do not believe Doc read music at all unless it is Braille notation. Not that I would put much past Doc. He was a rather amazing...

Friends, here is a video of John Renbourn's Traveller's Prayer arranged for the Ecco Mandolin Ensemble, performed exclusively on Lyon & Healy instruments: a Style B, an asymmetrical style A, a...

Here you go -- one of my first and favorite arrangements for the Ecco Mandolin Ensemble, Traveller's Prayer by John Renbourn, performed on all L&H Instruments (the dola, cello, and bass from the...

They are living as quietly as possible, and both doing quite well.

I just read that Norman Blake turned 86 on 10th March, and I would like to wish him well.

I saw him play on my first trip to the USA in 1977, and have always enjoyed him ever since.

Thanks for...

It took a good long while and more wheeling and dealing (and spousal apologizing) than I've ever done, but I've managed to put together a full Lyon & Healy Quartet.

All are player grade - the...

I am SO happy to see that Paul Hostetter's website is again available; when I last looked 5 or 6 months ago, it was not. It's a wonderful resource, and he was a frequent poster here.

IIRC, his...

Try break it down in phrases, and get those up to speed. Then try stringing two phrases together, and get those up to speed. Then string a third to the first two, etc. I’ve worked on East...

Once again, it's an important date in history:

March 2, 1984 - Mockumentary This is Spinal Tap released. Remember D minor is the saddest of all keys.

Hi everyone,

It looks like I joined back in 2016 but never posted.

I recently discovered the baroque mandolino and it’s fascinating music, so I have been lurking around here recently. I don’t...

I've shown this around a lot of places, but I don't think it has been posted here.

This is my giant ball vise for carving arched plates. It has several different fittings so I use it for...

Not strictly a butt joint but actually a mortise and tenon. There is at least a little side grain gluing surface, if the fit is good. there is also some side grain glue surface between the back and...

One more observation about Northfield before commenting and a few pics of Elderly Instruments. Of all of the NF mandolins I played I really fell in love with one of the Artist series models. But the...

Instead of going to the upcoming NAMM Show in 2024 decided to pay a visit to Northfield and Elderly Instruments. Northfield was yesterday and was a mind blowing experience getting to play all of...

"Lemon oil", the commercially available stuff, is almost always mineral oil with lemon fragrance added. Oils do nothing to re-hydrate wood. Proper relative humidity can do that, but often a shrunken...

I always heard mandolin music was cool, and here that notion is affirmed

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Thank you for all your help. After carefully examining the tuners and headstock, i was convinced that the D tuner was worn and the headstock drill was fine. Frank Ford said his repair on a 22 F4 was...

You can find sections of persimmon heartwood that is black and large enough to use for mandolin parts. I have a bunch of it here as well as the mottled mixed black color.

Several years ago Tom Thiel developed a chemical process to blacken persimmon all the way through and it was beautiful. The problem was the chemical bath only worked for one use, making the cost...

Dangit, it snuck up on me again this year. Ah for the sound of the blazing 14.4K modem and the computer that might have had 32 MB of RAM, though I doubt it did.

Yours is quite a bit simpler than this one because you only have to deal with the surface veneer and not the whole side thickness like this one.
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Looks like the side is plywood (laminated) and a section of the surface layer is sanded/worn through into the underlying layer.
It would be quite the learning experience, and beyond the call on an...

If there were awards for advice...

Close. There's not a lot of the wood neck shell left, but some CF and a lot of empty space inside. The all-CF necks are difficult to work with, so that A-model is one of several experiments (to...

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