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Hey, dmac, it's been five years. How did they wear?

This one has Roger Tallroth playing bouzouki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYW9oH6eqyg

In many cases, yes.

Take JR's--a famously good-sounding example made from two different trees, one half being about 20 degrees off quarter...
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You couldn't give that wood away...

I would use a punch on the back side and widen the post, that is how it was put in there in the first place.

Yeah, but the price points aren't quite right.....yet.
A copy of a 20-25K mandolin--if it's any good--is probably worth 20K, right?... ;)
I guess that a modern maker who gets 8-10K for an F5...

The photo Paul linked to is so cool that it should be posted here for posteriority.

Mick

Briefly tried to track down the Ault delivery van...looks like a Chevy logo behind the short sax player...

I just listened to the Pet Sounds box set on a road trip, and that Gibson octave 12-string is everywhere, and not just "WIBN"...
It's pretty distinctive, especially after getting very familiar with...

No need. The answer is in the photo you posted on April 17. It appears to have been taken in the dry kiln room built on to the back of the original factory in 1918. This is a single story addition...

Without having it in hand, I presume the finish is thicker on top and/or it had different exposure - e.g., hanging on the wall. I've long held that the finish is more likely to be thicker on the...

This is not even the biggest one I've seen...
Lots of biomass in these leaves...

https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8418/30291149836_830f27693d_z.jpg

While poor fret spacing would cause this, it is unlikely the problem. More likely is that it is a setup issue.

The way to narrow this down is to figure out where it is flat or sharp.

Also, how...

Wait a minute! You shouldn't be resting your palm on the bridge anyway, should you? I just took out two mandolins, one bowlbacks and one archtop and I can't even see how you can play resting your...

Look at the carved bat mandolin linked to in her other post. There is French writing and a dated label on that one. Looks kind of the same. That one was created for a gathering of the French colonies...

Thank you, Bernie. It was built by Joe Mendel. A great guy and a great luthier. I have a video of it with eight strings somewhere. I'll post when I find it. I don't know the lower bout dimensions,...

It's my first time visiting the builders forum in a long time, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this thread at the top of the list. I've been playing the 27" scale mandocello for several years...

That's what I run into in my repair business. Often the guitar is a $100-500 guitar and not worth putting more than $100 into the repair. I try to give the client options, such as, I can fix the...

I felt compelled to post this picture of Spruce with Hazel. Carry on.

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee22/e_stamp/Make-a-big-bowl-of-popcorn_zpstj582gty.jpg

Vinegar and Lemon Juice are both acids. You can't neutralize an acid with an acid.

Just FYI, "Alaskan spruce" = "Sitka spruce"...
Yeah, there's some Black spruce growing in AK, but I'm sure we're not dealing with that species...

And don't even get me going on all those numbers,...

There is a very effective repair technique for these tailpieces. This thread is about a different style of tailpiece, but the repair outlined by Paul Hostetter is basically the same....

I believe the handwriting on the Gibson guarantee labels from 1920 is that of Jimmy Johnstone, head of the Stringing Department.

Joe

Personally, I don't like the wooden sole idea. These things make a lot of trips over the wood to do their work, and they wear. The Ibex planes I have are bronze (not brass), the the one I use the...

The nut should be glued lightly to the end of the fingerboard only. A couple of small dabs of Titebond, Elmers, superglue, anything like that as long as it is a small amount. Don't glue the bottom...

The missing headstock logo isn't really missing unless there is a routed void on the headstock where it was, it probably was never there. It didn't appear on all Gibson instruments. Lots of people...