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I bought a "pick punch" some time ago, and then recently made a pick out of my credit card,... the very card that made it possible for me to buy many thousands of dollars worth of instruments over...

That's terrific! Can't wait to hear how you like it.

Thanks. it's 23.5 inches.

Here's my new Irish bouzouki that my friend Darrell Pura built for me last month. It has an Engelmann Spruce top, and a "tigerwood" (Goncalo Alves) back and sides. He embedded a 1954 Canadian penny...

Congratulations,... I LOVE blue instruments. At the moment I don't have one, I'll have to rectify that. :mandosmiley:

Beautiful!!!

I agree, very clean picking,.. and your mandolin sounds very nice too. Good work.

I string my octave mandolin in unison.

I was considering having my new bouzouki strung in octave pairs, but now I'm not sure. I may have it in unison, as I like the bass to be deep-ish, and I'm...

Hi Londy:

I just ordered the book, too.

Leigh

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I want to learn to read standard notation more reliably. I can do it now,... at a snail's pace. Not good enough! This is the year!

Just realized this was an old thread. Oh well, it's timely...

Wow. Now THAT is a present!

I got this lovely vacation in San Francisco (that I'm presently in the middle of :) ) and I have a wonderful bouzouki on order from a fellow Saskatoonian, Darrell Pura. No snow, ice, wind and cold...

Heh, heh,...

What kind of mandolin did you get? You'll have a fun holiday,... that's for sure.

This isn't a mandolin,..... but I used to work in a lab, and here's a plastic vial that has a spontaneously formed crystal pattern on the interior of it. I've kept it for years, just because it's...

I think it's really cool, Annabel! I'm not religious myself, but I still think it's very interesting in a good way. If I were you, I'd hang onto it.

Hi There:

I am having a friend of mine build me a Irish flat-backed bouzouki, and I am struggling with how to have it's tuning arranged. What if only the low G string was tuned in octaves?

Well,................... I did the set up on the black Rogue, and fortunately (unfortunately) it only needed to have the bridge adjusted a little, and moved back a bit, and the tailpiece bent up a...

Beautiful!!

I received my Golden Gate Mock Turtle picks, and they're ok. I had to sand them, and then polish the edges, and I agree that the fact that they're not flat takes some getting used to. But they're...

I just want to say I successfully set up my new $50 Rogue mandolin entirely by using Rob Meldrum's wonderful eBook. I did get a little lucky,... my mandolin didn't need as much work as it could...

Did you see his big collection of electric guitars upstairs? That was such a treat, a real museum of guitar history.

I like them.

My hobbies are boring compared to all of the above! When I'm not doing mandolin-related things, I play mandolin, small pipes and bodhran in a folk music band, read (a lot), play computer solitaire,...