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Thanks, Karl. Much obliged. Please mention this thread to the current owner...would be fun to get his/her input. As far as the "pilot" designation goes, its starting to look like all 25 of the Bush...

Hearing is believing. Is this result across the board?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNhYUO96U4A

MAG-ic Probe. magicprobe.net, or a Hacklinger gauge.

I'm working on my first mandolin using a cnc and Aspire. I used a probe and digitized the top and back to create the program. I'm not good enough to design in 3d using any program. Using the probe...

There's no way I could compete with you guys...

Marty, you are one of very FEW standing out among us "Loar nerds", LOL.

It basically comes down to whether you want the CNC machine to be a pattern carver making the same thing over and over again, or if you want the flexibility for it to be a seamless extension of your...

For a small dig in your garden where excavator cannot reach and wheelbarrow will damage the green, sometimes the bucket is all you need...
It is true that parametric models are the most advanced CAD...

I'd also recommend Fusion 360. The CAM package built in to Fusion is the same one we were buying for biomedical research machining 5-6 years ago at $10,000 a seat. ASPIRE & Vectric are like buckets,...

I have a number of sets of red maple with very deep flame and mineral stains. A violin maker friend told me "those aren't mineral stains, those are golden tone threads". ;)

I don't make em round, but angled flat. I really don't like the look of rounded fret ends.

I too have managed to get paid for the instruments I have made, and this covers more material, the odd new tool, etc, but were I to try to make a living from it I'd starve! The big pleasure is to...

I love my Arches F-4: 160948

Beautiful repair and re-finish! Personally if I did it (and it were my mandolin) I'd have replaced the binding, shaved the tone bars and maybe re-graudated it --if it needed it -- and mostly left...

Well, in the end, it is his mandolin, so I am glad he is happy.
From what I gather from this forum, most of those 70s Gibsons need some serious scraping and tweaking to reach adequate potential. ...

Superior to any of my work! Unless it's binding a chicken for grilling!

Hate to be a party pooper. And, no doubt it works -- as so many people swear by the device......but, my gripe is that it isn't organic, looks like an ad-on, and just plain ugly! Think about it for...

ran across some wonderful tiger strip maple at Home Depot a few years ago and couldn't pass up.. but it was only 4 (3 3/4) inches wide.. pieces were 8ft long and had to have all four of them.. ...

Sounds reasonable, that's probably why the other folks did it too. No sense wasting wood like that. Nice job.

I like how it mirrors the 3 piece maple neck.

Nice work, Karl! I wish my first mandolins were that nice!

An interesting choice with the 3 piece back on the blonde one. I like the look of it. Interested to hear it.
Great job on your first 2 mandolins!

The three piece back is striking. I had not seen that on a mando yet. Thanks for sharing

Very nice, Karl. You should be proud.

You figured it out alright. Nice work!