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Wow! I’m impressed! I can see two things just from the pictures, one is that you make some really nice flat backs, and two, I can’t afford that one. But just to make sure, please P.M. me with a price.

Pretty! You're really on to something.

That looks real nice!

Jamie

Hello all, as it can, life got hectic and I drifted away from all things musical but I finally found my way out of the weeds and ended up at Waynesboro Music yesterday and walked out with an Eastman...

A renaissance cittern and a flat-backed mandolin I built. 2 instruments of similar construction, several hundred years apart.

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OK Part 3.... closing out the box...

Back is 2.5mm rosewood and a lot less flexible than the top, so while it also has an induced arch in the same manner as the top, it's a lot less noticeable. ...

OK folks here we go, this is a slightly unusual thread - it's not a "build thread" because the instrument is already built and off in it's new home, nor is it a "look what I made" thread, because I...

Recently restored Gautié arrived last week:

https://youtu.be/quVTWu5ksO4?t=5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f30kOKwjgUM&lc=UgwUYAEx_TVm2IG5GzN4AaABAg

A renaissance cittern nearing completion.

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Bob, my instrument are not high art either. I have been building folk instruments for 60 years starting with dulcimers when I was in high school. If it has strings and frets I have built at least...

Well, obviously, the cat soundhole is working.😸

Kit
Guitars, Mandos, Violins, Dulcimers, Cats

Here's a flat-backed mandolin or bandolim, based on Portuguese and Brazilian models:
https://i.imgur.com/86aLqOn.jpg
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Here's the...

You can call it the Tom and Jerry model...:cow:

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...

Octave mandolin in sitka spruce and claro walnut. 21" scale length, lacey sheoak fingerboard and Queensland maple neck.

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I'm almost done with this electric octave mandolin. It will have four single strings and a relatively short scale (18"). Shooting for something in an octave mando range in a mandolin/mandola-size...

Varnishing the latest mando
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Finished this today so i guess it's now... off my bench?

https://i.imgur.com/pEOIcDd.jpg

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Great, now every time I pick up my Gibson A, all I'm going to see is the lack of a cat in the soundhole! Thought that mandolin was darn near perfect! :))

Bob, that is very original and fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJAqhs-5dc

https://youtu.be/RkDR7wErZtI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_lOL9RBVkg&lc=UgwLd8V3I3n81DeLCEp4AaABAg

It took 49 years to get around to the advice Hartford gave me. Cut the buttons off of your performance coat or vest. They can always be sewn back on. I did this not long ago with a vest, and I'm real...