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[Checks mandolin], It says "MF", so... :confused:

Ever since the removal of the fretboard extension, mine's been confused.

‘25 snakehead with worm over tuners - those will be the modern spacing. Almost anything will fit (except the StewMac “Restoration” tuners) providing you’re happy to plug and re-drill the screw holes....

"I miss Rick Turner. RIP."

Me too! He helped me a lot!

I use a 3/8" wide aluminum U channel from the hardware store with 320 self stick sand paper. you can get directly under one string as needed & it's inexpensive, and you can cut what ever length you...

Bart, George and Alex... I admire your optimism!

Glad to have it back
https://slowplayers.org/1295-2/

This thread reminds me of something I’d not thought of in many years. My wife and I got married very young and I started attending her church. I was 20 and had been playing (owning, really) guitar...

Per Paul Fox's book "The Complete Guide to Gibson Mandolins" page 151, the price shown on the tag was current for 1952. Didn't change until 1956.

That seems to agree with the single line Kluson...

Done, but it’s MK V. The first version using the original gear and worm in a new, solid housing, failed because the gear would be the part that failed and would be expensive to reproduce. The next...

It'll pull parallel (more or less) with the neck away from the headstock. Some people use a coin for leverage and as a finger saver. They can be tight, if they're crooked it might be tighter. But,...

Sad news in the extended mandolin community: Andy Statman's son, Moshe, has passed after battling Leukemia. There's a fund set up and administered by the family here.

Details of this at that link....

I was still speaking about harp guitars for the 3000 (minimum) number. Mandobasses likely less by a a fair percentage.

I've read that Bill Monroe did it that way because he didn't want to take his hat off every time he put his mandolin on or took it off. He was self-conscious about what his hat did to his hair.

I brings me great comfort to see a $100,000 mandolin with a piece of paper stuffed in a low nut slot just like the rest of us do!

Greetings all. I couldn't locate a recent H-O thread to include this on, so creating a new post here - the goal just to get this archived somewhere besides my office. I stumbled on this yesterday...

Darryl, I don’t see how anyone can be offended in the conversion. Who plays lutes these day anyway? The mandola coversion is perfect.

The only thing I've found that truly works is an ozone generator. You can buy a small one for $25 on Amazon. I bought an old Vega banjo from an individual that must have been a chain smoker. I...

I’ve had the Recording King Dirty 30’s mandolin for a couple days and thought I’d make a quick review. Basically, for the price I haven’t played a better cheap/beater mandolin. It’s not great, but...

Boveda has a similar system for violin and viola instruments. It’s a much smaller system.

https://www.sharmusic.com/products/boveda-violin-viola-humidification-system

Yes, mine - details previously given.

N.B. Please ignore my last post - those are worm under - what was I thinking !!!!

That's a plain style A with a "snakehead" peghead, built in 1923, and shipped in 1925.
An A-2 would have bindings around the fingerboard and fancier rings around the soundhole.

Hi Sharon. Bill Kammerzell here. I was texting with you last night and recommended Mike E. I dont know how you logged on but if you used your phone go to full web version scroll down from your post...

Well done! ;)

I think you’ll better with a general listing, like Craigslist, since it’s not really luthier-specific stuff or terribly antique — except for the Walker Turner; there seems to be a rabid bunch of W-T...