This from Yo-Yo Ma has some profound insights on learning. You can skip ahead if to 10:38 minutes if is is too long. He also has insight for learning in his podcasts, including an outline for...
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This from Yo-Yo Ma has some profound insights on learning. You can skip ahead if to 10:38 minutes if is is too long. He also has insight for learning in his podcasts, including an outline for...
West System is the best epoxy I have found. The 5 to 1 or 3 to 1 ratio is not handy for small batches. I use a digital postal scale. A laboratory scale is better. Smiths is very good and is 1 to 1....
I use epoxy and wood flower for filler rather than superglue. Epoxy is 100% solids. You are moving right along. Will you do anything to the braces? I use sewing thread tied to two safety pins to...
Mr. Dulak's Peg head drilling jig shows in this video. Other techniques have changed a lot since the Mid Missouri days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQquh7spNW0
Two useful products. I have not used them on an instrument. They do soften stretchy glue.
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Musicians Friend puts these on sale fairly often. They were offered for $49.99 recently. I bought two. They are decent. It is too long but would accommodate the big body.
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I sing along with this one if no one is around. I have my own version for the lyric in the the last stanza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOiIVw0xRDk
I think an 1/8 inch jack makes very good sense for a penetration through a thin side without a block inside. A delectate cord with an 1/8 inch is far less likely to damage the instrument if (heaven...
Our son is a rocker who took off with his band at 16. A few years later he was ready to give mom and dad a try again and I went to help him fix an apartment. We listened to my iPod while we worked....
I do not have any experience with tuners where the string tension pull the gears away from each other rather than together. Are these reverse tuners? ( I am sure the answer is in a post, I will look...
nathanh , You might get some information if you post on Banjo hangout. A tone ring will interfere with the fret board. The tuners are on upside down. I would get a new head and new strings and give...
There is a lot on the web about Harmony guitars. Not as much about mandolins. I am not finding the old database. I see this but have not studied it.
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My one Apple device (iPod) always uploads images to the Café the wrong way. If I save them to the PC first it usually fixes them. Fantastic looking instrument. Hopefully Allen or someone will start...
I will not forget when my dad (The Preacher) told me that Eric Clapton admired Don Williams. And NO we can not listen to my one tape (The Allman Brothers) on the long ride home.
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My dad accidentally got a custom van in the 1970s when a friend defaulted on a loan. It had a stereo cassette player and big, extra speakers. He had two tapes both were Don Williams. I was surprised...
This song came up on shuffle today. The mandolin sounds really jumped out and made me smile.
https://youtu.be/4qkoZQRbl3s
I like the end pin jack / strap button through the tail piece. Unfortunatly most tailpieces are made for mandolin which puts it in the wrong place. I have made a few home made tail pieces that center...
I like the way John Hamlett cuts to the data. I have suspected that Simple Green contains oil of wintergreen.
rcc56 points out cautions that I take for granted. A few drops on a soft rag. start in an inconspicious spot. I have found Simple Green to be gentle on finishes. There are combinations of crud and...
It looks like a hand done marriage of a mandolin neck on a banjo pot. The spacers on the lugs might mean a tone ring or something was removed from the rim. It may not be the elusive banlo killer but...
Thanks Pittsburgh Bill . More or less the Boggie Woggie which seems to be the only progression I can remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thGvCTwGZX4
I sure hope to visit Scottland Again. Doreen had a trip planned that went down the pipe due to covid.
I have had good results with Simple Green un dilulted, a small amount on rag. Lately I have added it to my list of things to try before moving on to solvents.
Jimmy Moon's work has a very nice astetic that I think of as Scottish.