Well, the fellow who gave me the mandolin passed away. I still hadn't done a proper repair on the nut when I last saw him, and I asked him if he wanted it back. He said, "Just keep it." A few weeks...
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Well, the fellow who gave me the mandolin passed away. I still hadn't done a proper repair on the nut when I last saw him, and I asked him if he wanted it back. He said, "Just keep it." A few weeks...
Sorry to revive this old thread, but I've just come by an Ovation, MCS148, and posted some questions on the Build and Repair part of the forum. Rather than repeat them all here, I'll just send you...
Thanks! I got the back disk off without any difficulty, but encountered another problem...
I got the battery case out, slid the cover off, and removed the battery to see if it still had a charge....
Thanks, Ted! I tried to remove that disk after removing the screw, but the disk didn't want to come off. I'm fearing that some exploded battery might have gummed up the insides. I'll try to pry it...
Nice work!
Hello: I was recently given an Ovation MCS148 which apparently had been in storage for a very long time. Its nut was broken, and I was asked to make a new one. But I noticed that this mandolin had...
If you want to walk a little on the wild side:
I built a mandola a few years ago with a 17-7/8" scale length. It is tuned D-A-E-B, and was designed to use the same strings as a mandolin and have...
Well, there's this one, sort of:
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?112076-mandore-by-JLT&p=1356230#post1356230
[/QUOTE]Is there a reason why a bowl back mandolin couldn't have a...
You might want to go to the Musicmakers Forum for any questions about this kit:
http://www.harpkit.com/phpBB/index.php
Even though it's been discontinued, you can still communicate with the...
Do let us know what you decided to do, and how it turned out. I have a mandola that's due for restringing, and going to octave courses is very tempting.
I cut a sound port into a mandolin prototype that had very little projection. It seemed to make a slight difference from the player's standpoint, but not from the audience's. That's about what I...
I second that. I got my copy this evening and found it to be as comprehensive as one could hope for. Hats off to Ron for making this available to us!
Or have a new John Hartford leading the charge by composing a song the way he did to save the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. I can hear it now: "They're gonna tear down the Gibson smokestack..."
Didn't notice that! Silly me!
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?108176-Possible-Don-Kawalek-mandola-project
Don's kits are pretty good. I don't know when this one will be released, though.
I don't see what else it could be. I suppose that it could be a string anomaly, which would be easy to test just by swapping out new strings for the old. With the other strings off, it might pay to...
The kit that Musicmakers stocks is not an A-style mandolin. It is what they call "Dakota" style (apparently after the designer's daughter), with the ribs made up of segmented pieces, sort of like a...
That's the one, I think. I haven't actually seen the Nova show. But I actually tracked down the original URL: http://forum-network.org/lecture/solving-stradivarius-secret
which was another...
Actually, there are a few. But you're right that almost all of the originals have had neck resets and stiffer bass bars installed over the centuries to give them the greater volume and penetration...
This discussion reminds me of a rather long but interesting video I saw on why Stradivari violins are so exceptional. A luthier was on stage with a violinist playing an instrument of ordinary...
My advice, such as it is, is to go for it. The KM-150, while well made, is not an heirloom instrument, so it should be a good "test bed" for this sort of modification.
I put a sound port into a...
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This is an attempt to build a mandore, the Renaissance ancestor of the modern mandolin. This instrument uses the same 13" scale length as a modern mandolin but has only four Nyl-gut...
If you live reasonably close to Don Kawaleck (Virginia) or Roger Siminoff (central California) and have the financial wherewithal, you could enroll in one of their classes in mandolin construction....
That's pretty much how I did it. But instead of using the chisel, I took the smallest drill bit I had and drilled a circle of holes around the screw, just deep enough to expose the screw itself.
I usually use two or three putty knives in a pot of boiling water. I alternate them and rely on their heat and moisture to separate the parts.
Since you used Titebond, you must remove all traces...