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Agreed. I can easily recommend this workshop.

You will come out of it with a wonderful instrument, new skills, and lots of great stories.

How many of us can say "I spent most of a week in...

Oh oh, a banjo workshop. I'd love to attend... the mandolin workshop was great. I'll take a look at my calendar and see if I can swing the time and resources.

I replaced the video with a rarer live performance version...

I wonder if I'm the only one who totally associates a Bouzouki with the Monty Python cheese shop sketch, first viewed more than 30 years ago.

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Wenslydale: Oh, I thought you were...

Avi,

"You mean like the sword fight in The Princess Bride?"

I knew you'd get the reference <s>

It would be even more impressive if we found out that he was right handed <s>

Following the LMII guidelines, I filled the walnut grain with brown filler, then sealed with Tru-Oil Sealer, then multiple coats of Tru-Oil finish.

I recently used Tru-Oil to finish an octave mandolin built in Don Kawalek's 4 day workshop.

Luthier's Mercantile has a good page about using Tru-Oil for finishing instruments

Take a look at ...

Very nice Avi!

I'd also suggest checking the fret heights.

For example, if you're fretting at the second fret but the string is actually hitting the third fret because that fret is too high, you'll be sharper at...

Very interesting... an M0 with a walnut body. I like it <s>

Is it an MW-0 or like mine, and M0-W... the wide neck version of the M0

Checking to see if he's changed model designations, or if it's just a typo.

I'll try to upload a higher quality version later, but in the meantime here's a little taste of NJ CBOM-O-RAMA


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I've got some video/audio of a few folk jamming near the end of the event...

I'd hoped to get it uploaded, but got empaneled on a jury today, so I'm scrambling to cover other committments.

Angel, where did you uploade the photos?

When I find some time, I'll try to edit some of the video and get it posted.

Looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow. I got OM-1 mostly complete... it will make its debut tomorrow.

I put strings on it tonight. It will be interesting to compare instruments and see...

Three musical instruments are sitting in a bar and, after a few drinks, they begin boasting.

"I don't want to brag," says the first, "but I'm a drum. And drums, as I'm sure you know, were the...

I don't give names to the objects that I interact with.

I was forced to name our children <vbg>

Beware of anthropomorphizing objects. They don't like it.

Avi,

Is there a time set for this event yet? I'm trying to juggle some scheduling for that weekend.

Also it's likely a good idea to edit your original post if possible to add the...

Contact information sent to Avi. Thanks

My first exposure to mandolin was watching Davis Grisman on TV with his group playing Dawg Funk. To this day, that's one of my favorite pieces of music, it always makes me smile.

I grew up in...

The modern day Wells Fargo wagon... comin' down the street.

I'll spare you my singing. Congratulations on the new mandolin.

Release the Penguins!

Let us not forget the notation that codifies all this theory into one lovely piece that can be played with feeling:

Faerie's Air and Death Waltz