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I also not really clean up my top and back joints. It is so easy to chisel away the hot hide glue afterwards so I just take away the easiest to reach with a wet cloth. If you want to clean it I...

That is Goto Stealth tuners with about half the weight as normal tuners. Makes a huge difference in balance for the instrument.

That looks really wonderful!

I stopped using sanding abrasives many years ago and that helps to get rid of all the fine dust that is the worst. Nowadays I just use scrapers and similar, or files. That gives much bigger dust...

Thanks for your comments! The customer like to have a slightly fatter and wider neck so the widht at the nut is 33 mm on this one. Yes, 24 frets and 350 mm scale length. To use just local woods was...

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Just delivered this custommade mandolin to the new owner. Since eight years I totaly stoped using tropical woods and nowadays I build with all Swiss woods. This...

Thanks!
Ah, the tennis racket.....that was also an instrument that had to suffer from a fast deliverance without any time to do any recording of it....I really have to shape up on that point I now...

Thanks for your nice comments!
Unfortunately I had no chance to do a recording of this mandolin before I had to deliver it to its new owner. But I hope that he soon will do some recordings with it,...

Here is some pic on the 10-stringed mandolin that I just build for Oskar Reuter from Sweden. It might not show up so clearly on this pics but it does have fanned frets with Scale 352-365 mm. I...

This thread should be deleated, but I can´t find how to do it, anyone?

Yes it is still for sale! I am not so good in upgrading my site with the new instrument that I have for sale....but just send me an mail and we can clear everything out.
info@runessonguitars.com

Here is a youtube clip when Rico Punzi tryed out the octave mandolin just the other day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYH2QWhVWw

Thanks for your nice comments! We´ll see about that thing with soundclip.....feels little complicated to attache it to a reply.

Thanks for your nice words!
Scifie, the neckadjustment works in the same way as the old patent that Staufer made around 1830, nothing new under the sun in other words! I just did some minor changes...

In my goal to find and work more and more with local wood I recently finished this octavemandolin.
Soundboard: Swiss alpine spruce
Back, neck and sides: European alpine maple
Bindings: cherry...

I am one builder that might be able to help you.....

I don´t know about chestnut but Oak have been used quiet often for guitars back and sides in the earlier 1900.

Thanks SternArt for telling exactly what I think but little more clear.....
I also searchen long time to get my Hifi to play as neutral and honest as possible and I also trained my ears to think...

I do think there is a bit of difference in between the sound of the majority of the mandolins. Then there is much more hard to here the difference between the similar instruments.
But your...

I wonder if someone have been on the Tönder (http://www.tf.dk/pages/choose_language.php?) festival in Denmark and can tell something about it? Or know somthing about it anyway.
I am trying to get...

I have both Travellite and Gator. I like them both very much. The Gator is absolute a bit slimmer and the outside pocket is for me very appreciated.
The only serious problem with Gator is that the...

If you of some reason really should go to Schaffhausen then you just have to visit me too cause I have my workshop just 20 minutes from Schaffhausen!
(and at least 4 mandos for sale)

"I'd be willing to bet lunch that it's not the nut. I'd bet dinner too. "

I won´t take your bet.....;)

I am ready to agree with all posts above that it is a problem with bad intonationadjustment.
But it could also or could be a combination of that and a wrong adjusted nut. The nut can be missplaced...

Both the last picture from Frankenstein and from Sunburst (Hamlett) is exampel on how you can make the TRC dissapear or be integrated in a nice way. I think we have about the same ideé about the...