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I miss Rick Turner. RIP.

The grading stamp has 'SPF' (spruce-pine-fir), which groups western species of similar strength. The spruce is Engelmann, the pine is lodgepole or other similar western pines, and the fir is white...

Every Harmony instrument from that era should be all solid woods.

There are few tools that put me more on edge than a power miter saw, a "chop saw", sliding or not. It's like a radial arm saw and cutting on either type, more "with the grain" than across it, is...

Professional Music in Grimes, one of the western suburbs of Des Moines has lots of nice guitars with a higher end acoustic room upstairs. Their mandolin selection is pretty limited usually.
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Life is short.

Always bring your best instrument and give it your best effort.

Jason is an old friend, so in no way would I want to discourage or criticize him and he definitely knows how to build a good instrument; 'nice looking mandolin.

There was a time a couple of...

"Hole lotta' nuthin'..." ;)

Phone number worked. Thanks much Joe.

Don't expect any kind of warranty when you bring your back of Home Depot dumpster diver wood and ask someone else to build something from it!

There are several people who regularly post here that offer mandolin building classes in this flat top style as well as traditional carved instruments.;)

If your end goal is a carved traditional...

Very cool and informative video. He’s such a down to earth guy...


https://youtu.be/j4lSQfvWC5c

I've played Joe's instruments and they are superb!

The North American Guitar, formerly Cotten Music, has a flattop mandocello from Cafe member Joe Mendel for $2795:
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Grim Story :disbelief: but great job :mandosmiley:

Looks a lot better than its former owner does, I'll bet...

Charles, I’ve seen those before. It a clamp that holds a 9 volt battery for a pickup.

Nice job, what is that metal thing attached to the neck block? :confused:

Nice job Joe, it looks better than it did before. :)

Why?

I'm on record about these before - I'm a big fan of a zero fret and use one on all my new builds - these devices though combine all the worst features of a regular nut and a zero fret and...

A solution in search of a problem, and a poor solution at that. A properly setup nut is so far ahead that this shouldn't even be a consideration. Not that I have any strong opinions on the topic.

Cafe member Joe Mendel explored this idea back in 2010. You can see and hear it in action!

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Wait . . . banjo players have a forum? You mean, like, reading, or is it just pictures?

Here's an article. I was thinking that an "Ozone Chamber" treatment might help. It seems it still needs another step besides this. I'd Get some advice from a mold remediation pro. They may have...

Thats a clean back removal, nice work

Steve