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Hi, I dug out my Loar LM-110-BRB mandolin after a few years of not playing it to find the action was high and the neck bowed. It's a relatively new Chinese made model so I set about trying to adjust...

Thanks rcc56

one thing that worries me is the tone bar appears to have fallen off due to poor quality glue or maybe even due to not enough glue.
The other tone bar may keep the instrument...

thanks for all your very helpful replies and apologies for the late reply. I teach music full time and this time of year it all becomes a bit too full on. I got my phone into the mandolin for a look...

Thanks Skip

I'm more familiar with guitar construction and have not heard the term 'tone bar' before.

Is the bar required to give the correct tone? ie: will my mandolin sound bad without it in...

Hi, thanks for letting me join the forum.

I have just received a 5 year old Epiphone MM-50E and the seller advised that there was a piece of wood rattling around inside it.

The wood turns out...