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    Re: Brentrup Stealth V8...MINE!!!

    Three people have said the same to me this week...Mandolincafe is boring. Over the years I have seen the site go from a VG informative, congenial site to a commercial, argumentative, comparative, BS...
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    Re: Brentrup Stealth V8...MINE!!!

    Well, there ya go...to slaughter a Hunter S. Thompson quote:
    "The music business is a dark plastic hallway; where pimps and thieves run free and good men die like dogs...there is also a negative...
  3. Thread: What's going on?

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    Re: What's going on?

    Well, yes, I meant the 2nd "Golden Age", and if anything, you may now call it the "Golden Age of Pac-Rim". Yes, it was a good run, and yes, it's time to move on. Call it what you like, many hand...
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    Re: One of the last few...

    Thanks folks.
    Sorry Jim, but after I finish the last few, I'm done with mandolins. Yes, I am caught in the retirement trap for another 3 years, then I get a little break, but I really can't build...
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    One of the last few...

    Here's Mike's F5...

    http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww234/ivoroid/Mike1.jpg

    http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww234/ivoroid/Mike2.jpg
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  6. Thread: What's going on?

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    Re: What's going on?

    I too have refrained from commenting on this because I've been involved in the "transition".
    Dennis, you may be doing quite well, but a glance at your website explains it all in one word: Pac-Rim....
  7. Re: Structural failure is upon us. A learning opportunity perhaps

    Two things strike me from the photos. The area under the fingerboard out to the edges is way to thin, and the neck looks like it is sitting very high off the body making for a tall bridge. That would...
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    Re: Nitrocellulose Laquer

    Of course, Rick, but at least there are no witness lines and the shrinkage is gradualized if you use butyl celloslove on the proper amount of area and wait a couple of months before sanding and...
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    Re: Washburn Re-issue Vintage Parlor Guitars?

    Mike, I'll bet that's a different model than what I saw offa google. It said plywood and Indonesia.
    Northfolk guy, yea, they are handbuilt (by me) and quite a bit more than the Washburns...
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    Re: Washburn Re-issue Vintage Parlor Guitars?

    Well, they are made in Indonesia, and you can get one for 400 bucks. That ought to tell you something...
    I do prefer mine and it's oak!:grin:
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    Re: Nitrocellulose Laquer

    Exactly...it's not repairable like nitro.
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    Re: Nitrocellulose Laquer

    How do you repair poly finishes without witness lines? Nitro is totally repairable and that is one reason why I use it on guitars.
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    Re: Bill Hinkley in hospice

    Here's an email I got yesterday that says it better than I could...

    "I suspect that some of you may know Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson, who have for around 40 years been at the center of the...
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    Bill Hinkley in hospice

    For anyone that didn't know, we are losing one of the greatest tune masters of violin, mandolin and guitar, Bill Hinkley of Bill and Judy Larson fame. They were originals on the Prairie Home...
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    Re: What mandolin do the bands play most?

    Here's the way it works...if you are somebody, you get a free Gibson, if you are nobody, you buy it. I've heard the stories from the hot players themselves at IBMA for many years. Small builders...
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    Re: New build clean up

    Well, I've strung 250+ instruments in the white before finishing and I don't consider it a waste of time. Wish I could do it with guitars, but oh well...
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    Re: Will the flood affect prices?

    As to the opportunities of other builders to gain an increased share in the marketplace (what kind of stock market talk is that?), I doubt it. Eastman and the other pac-rims took care of that a long...
  18. Thread: Splotchy Top

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    Re: Splotchy Top

    A couple of things...
    Most all tops looks splotchy with stain in them and they look less splotchy with the finish on. However, trying to redo a top almost always turns out worse, unless you can get...
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    Re: Drywall Mud as a Pore Filler?

    I've tried it on a couple of guitars, but it doesn't fill as well as regular filler.
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    Re: Let's Pull for Gibson

    Somehow I think Henry can pull his own load...
  21. Re: Mando Re-finish- Question to those who took the plunge

    Not worth it. Not EVEN a expert builder would refinish an Eastman. Just play the thing and save your pennies for a good mandolin.
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    Re: Advice need for buying a Gibby F4

    +1 to what Bob A said about '21's. Mine has no T/R so you get the double pot, and mine is one of the 200 or so that were dyed Cremona brown. It's the loveliest sounding F4 I've ever heard....
  23. Thread: snakehead pattern

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    Re: snakehead pattern

    There is a photo on the Archives that I used. Measure the tuner post spacing to get the correct size, blow it up till you get the spacing.
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    Re: 12 fret guitars - easier for mandolinists?

    Exactly...the bridge is more where it's supposed to be...in the middle of the sound producing area, you're arm isn't hanging 2 frets farther out, and most of the playing is done in the first and...
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    Re: Do all the older gibson's have tiny frets?

    If the frets are good don't mess with them. You can hardly find that wire anymore. When I got my F4, the frets were good but the neck had a bow. I had to remove the frets, level the board and...
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