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I thought I'd share for posterity my very positive experience working with Cas Davey of Davey Mandolins on the design of a 10-string fan-fret hybrid mandola-mandolin that arrived a few days ago after...

One and the same! I have greatly valued your book by the way, Dagger.

I see a number of threads from around the time of the Kala tenor guitar's first release that wrestled with whether its 21.5 inch scale length and small body could produce satisfactory results retuned...

On a visit to my Lyn Hardy's Woodstock, NY workshop yesterday for some small repairs, I had a chance to try out one of her beautiful new octave mandolins on what looked to be a body in the size of...

This is super helpful, thanks for running the numbers! I’ve got a bunch of single strings in this ballpark on their way now and will report back in hopes of saving other short scale folks some trial...

Thanks for your helpful thoughts. I understand this experiment may be a failure but will try a few different gauges north of .60 and hope for the best.