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  1. Thread: Show your cboms!

    by JayD
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    Re: Show your cboms!

    Here is my octave mandolin that I built almost two years ago. The body is parlor guitar-size and has an Adirondack spruce top, curly birdseye maple back and sides, curly maple neck, and cocobolo...
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    Re: Peace by Sarah Jarosz

    I just finished learning this song all the way through yesterday on my octave mandolin and it's a really fun song to play.

    I thought I would point out a cool technique she uses for the last four...
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    Re: Peace by Sarah Jarosz

    Thanks so much for transcribing and posting this song. You did a great job. I've started learning it on my octave mandolin and it sounds really good on that instrument.
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    Re: Octave Mandolin fixed bridge compensation?

    I would like to confirm Graham McDonald's advice in his post above. I built my first octave mandolin with a fixed bridge about a year ago (building number three now). I set the compensation based on...
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    Re: Paul Wooldridge mandolin

    This is very cool. I'm the original poster of this thread. After close to two years of no replies, I stopped checking this thread. For the heck of it, I did a web search last night to see if anything...
  6. Thread: Octave Mandolins

    by JayD
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    Re: Octave Mandolins

    I bought a Johnson as a starter octave mandolin a couple years ago. It had a pretty full sound but I could never get rid of bad string rattle on the G course which was irritating. I was also never...
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    Paul Wooldridge mandolin

    Hello. I'm new to the forum. I'm posting in the hopes that some one of you mando experts on the forum might have some knowledge about a mandolin I have and its builder. I rescued this mandolin in...
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