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The other nice thing about zero frets is that (within reason) its difficult to cut the slots in the nut too deep. If you possibly can, though, deepen the slots with the nut off the instrument. Royal...

Cured epoxy is very unlikely to take up dye in any great quantity, and certainly not at the same rate as the wood. I've worked with epoxy a lot on boats, but I'm not sure it would be my first choice...

Not only that, but it's a line artificially drawn at a point in time. Go back in time far enough and species merge, go forward in time and they split. And sometimes even split and merge again...

I think the market is probably too small to be interesting... As it is never cost effective to home build an instrument against getting a decent one secondhand home building must be about the journey...

Good luck: I didn't find one here in the UK so I gave up and made one.

As of now I'd say it was easier than I expected, but I might change my mind about that when the instrument is finished and I...

I shouldn't worry too much about the neck yet, see what it's like when in action. And I imagine at our level of sophistication you could do a certain amount of correction on the frets, even if they...

Being just as inaccurate with a hand drill as you, I worked out a way to get my bushings accurately located. See this....

It does seem to me that a 4 string mandolin is veering towards ukulele turf... I suppose the contrary argument is that the extra strings can be simulated with electronics, but I spent the money on a...

That's going to be a big search, getting worse with time. All plastics deteriorate with time and usually sunlight makes it worse. But I understand museum creators have huge problems trying to...

You should be able to bend without scorching at all, so it sounds as if you want to dial back that torch a good bit.
This beginner with minimal gear uses a hot air paint stripper gun, but even that...

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Early stages of my experimental semi accoustic mandolin. Heavily on a budget using stuff i have lying about.
The neck/centreblock assembly is laminated maple and sapele, the truss rod slot...