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Great inspiration and advice here. Thanks you guys. This has helped me clear up some things that I've been thinking about and look at things from a different perspective.

Right on fellas. I'm definitely in the market for a job. I just had finished my bachelors in business before becoming unemployed. So, hopefully I can find something that will be a good fit and that...

Hello all,

I've been dormant from the building world for a while due to buying my first home that required updating and most of my attention for about a year now. Now, all the projects have...

I just bought a few sets of red maple rib stock. I took them to a local fiddle maker for thicknessing and they finished at .078-080" (according to his dial caliper). I thought they were looking...

Definitely! Wish I could find that deal!

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Finally getting around to making a side bending jig.

Ok thanks for all the tips fellas.

I want the rods flush with the contour (or very close) because, as I'm sure you know, the dreadnaught sides are nearly an inch smaller on one end compared to the other. Having them flush will give...

I'm building a side bending jig. I'm at a stand still with wonders on how to attach my 1/2" aluminum rods around the boundary of the 2 half guitar rib forms. I would like to drill holes flushly...

How about dread thicknesses? I've just got the materials to start a mahogany D-28 build and would like some opinions on sides/top/back thicknesses.

Do you all carve the inside or the outside of the plates first?

If you don't mind me asking....where do you builders come up with mahogany stock for blocks and such? I cam across some 4/4 stock at the local woodcraft but it's recently out of business. I debated...

I assume running a main line using thin wall PVC is acceptable and the breaking off the main line with flex hose?

Hello guys. After a first home buying experience and a ton of renovations, I'm ready to get back on my F5 mandolin #1 build. I know it's been 2 years since I first started, but life happens and a man...

Be sure to keep an ear on your intonation anytime you make any adjustments to the bridge. Mandolins are very finicky and the smallest adjustments can have huge impacts on the tone and softness of...

That seems expensive...or is it?

Where do I find ebony overlay stock thick enough for peghead and inlay? Can anyone help?

Seems like that should allow respectable time to get things together. Thanks again

Do you adhere blocks and lining with HHG? Seems like too lengthy of a process toget everything lined up perfect after glue is spread. Especially the for kerfed lining

Thanks for the reply John!

Hey fellas...I've found myself in a predicament with my head block and mold. I have a feeling I should make a new mold because e i cut my headblock to spec it doesn't correspond with my bent ribs in...

Yeah...it was on the progress of two mandos. One was being made for Chris Thile

If anyone saved the Dudenbostel.leanside.com gallery that is no longer available, I would love to get ahold of that.

Thanks John....once the fret extension block is set in place, it won't be visible.

After roughing in my scroll I returned to fishing my graduation of the plate. As I was finger planing I uncovered a sap pocket a little over an inch long and 1/32 wide maybe.... is this bad? Can I...