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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all!

    It took a freakishly long time to put something together, worth listening to.

    By all means, I am an amateur mandolin player, still running through few basic chords and scales.

    What...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi Bill,

    yes, I was anxious to put the strings on and play it. Bear in mind that I have never held or played a mandolin before, nor acoustic, nor electric.

    After making a compensated bridge out...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all,

    just a few notes and pictures of the progress over the last few weeks!

    I went with 3 layers of Rustins Danish oil, followed by a coat of wallnut wax. First layer of Danish oil was...
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    Re: Adding the 8 stringer back in

    Hi!

    Not an expert, but took a deep dive into the electronics and wiring recently. :)

    For the tone knob, could be the potentiometer taper (audio vs. linear) or it could be capacitor value.
    ...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hello,

    I hope you all are safe and well!

    As I am still working mostly in evenings, I use limited time to work on my project, rather to take too much pictures. So, I would say, more shop, less...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Thanks for the input.

    In the end, I will glue the neck in. Since my glueing surface is a bit smaller compared to yours, should I stick to the D3 type wood glue, or should I use 30 min epoxy glue?...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all!

    Still going strong with the build! Unfortunately, time to work on my project is becoming quite a scarce commodity.

    I made some small progress by chiseling out the neck pocket. First I...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all!

    Work on this little beast is still in progress, but balancing work and family has to take the toll somewhere. :grin:

    Again, I managed to snap a few pictures throughout the process. I...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all!

    As promissed, this is really a slow build. :)

    Over the past few weeks I managed to prepare the body blank. I started with four quartersawn 4/4 cherry boards which I cut to the size and...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all!

    A bit of work was done since my last post.

    Before pressing in the fretwire, I sanded the fretboard with 180 and then 220 grit sandpaper glued to the piece of float glass, in order to...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Thanks for all the input!

    I decided to glue the fretboard first, cut the neck to shape, install the frets and then carve the neck. Since fretwire will be pressed in, leaving the neck uncarved and...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Thanks, that puts things into perspective a bit! :)

    I initially wanted to do the dots, but I felt a bit underwhelmed with them in this build. Usually people like to complicate too much in the...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all!

    As already announced, this is going to be a looong build. :)

    Here is a small update.

    The fretboard has been sloted and cut to size. I wanted to do simple square fret markers, but...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi guys, thanks for the comments!

    @WarrenDev
    Yes, you can see the pencil lines correctly, I went for this crescent moon shape, it just looked nice when I was drafting the initial plans.

    I...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all!

    I managed to do some work today on the neck. I glued in the wings on the headstock and did some work on the headstock veneer. I had a piece of spalted maple (1-1/8 x 1-1/8 x 11-7/8), which...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Thanks for the interest. I have been quite busy with my day job and found some half hour here and there to do some work on the project.

    Regarding the electronics, I will have a custom, hand-made...
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    Re: Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi guys and thanks for your comments!

    I made some baby steps, started to square up the fretboard blank. It is quite oversized, I will dimension it as I move along with the planing. Still working...
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    Newbie Builds an Electric Mandolin

    Hi all,

    I hope that all is well!

    To briefly introduce, I am Rob and I am about to embark on a journey to build my first solid body 8 string electric mandolin.

    I will be quite a daredevil and...
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