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Thanks John!
I'm thinking maybe a little shorter and keeping them light, not planning on regraduating the top on this one,, several splits (three full length of the top) so I'm nervous,, thinking...

I think the owner is going to go for the X-brace.
How might you suggest it's location?
I've built 21 F-5's with parallel ( Not really parallel are they!) bars but never an X.
I've seen where the X...

Thanks a lot! I had forgotten that I had seen this from Frank a bunch of years ago,, must have remembered some of it,, I did make a plaster cast of the top before I took it off!

I am restoring a K-1 Mandocello top in very rough condition,,,
The tone bar is missing and I'm wondering if anyone has height dimensions.
I can tell that it was 9.5" long and approximately 7/16"...

If my Glue Pot is on, it's the first thing my shopcat Jasper checks out when he comes in the shop (He has his own door).
He truly enjoys the aroma, must have sedative qualities, he takes in a couple...

Hey John, in reference to your former co-worker,, there are many that find fault as if there were a reward for it,,,

Did I notice that the price of the Hacklinger dropped significantly?

A bit overkill, but years ago I used an old refrigerator (with a failed compressor) and a 100w bulb inside to keep welding rods usable in Virginia in August
Never put a hygrometer in the fridge but...

I just got the "Top on After the Neck" Experience earlier this summer.
Talked to Bob Smakula at Clifftop and he said they were from the 30's.
Did alot of head scratchin after I found the top moving...

I found Fiberglass (orange) driveway markers at Lowe's. They have Scotchlite on one end which shows up kinda cool when your taking pictures.
I cut them all in half and dipped the cut ends in cyano....

James is spot on about the Treager book, well worth the price.
Two things that made a significant difference on my PacRimPly Bass were the narrow string spacing at the nut and the maple soundpost....

For the last couple of years I have been using a propane wall heater that I made a stand for.
It fits nicely under the table saw.
It has been costing me about $70 a month for the coldest three...

McCoury, Grisman, Bush, all on stage at the same time,
It was definitely pretty cool.
Also there was some dude named Vince that I did not know he was OK.

I took the plunge a couple of years ago and bought the Festool ES 125 EQ variable speed random w/ the attached dust collector,, I still can't believe I spent that much money but the last six mandolin...

I'm curious about other folks top deflection observations.
I am using strings across a fitted bridge for the top load versus a weight. I felt that would be a more accurate down pressure than...

Hey Bryce,
I was using a jig/form to route the first 1.25 of the perimeter down to .225 w/ the cheapest of my 3 routers.
A crapsman w/ the plastic locking ring, when the lock ring loosened it...

Hanging in a special place where I can't help but see them are a AAA curly left handed back w/out scroll button.
A red spruce top where I was using a router to start the edges and went way too thin,...

Cold weather boating?
I have actually had to break ice on whitewater creeks in the mountains of West Va.

Hey Gail, where did you get that copying rig?

I Too witnessed the three sets at springfest last weekend in FL. I too was effectively blown away. #I made a few observations there. There were several musicians that started off watching the last...

I talked to a builder in VA last year that said he uses acetone for his binding adhesive. He figured that the acetone softens the celluloid and when clamped, it would form to the ledge. I have done a...

I thought about powder post beetles at first, but being familiar with their work ( I almost had to have a house tented before we could go to settlement) these holes are much smaller than the holes I...

I'm carving a red spruce top and noticed about a dozen tiny pinholes. They are approx. .008 to .009 in dia.
This the second top out of the same billet. The first top does not show any holes at...

Hey Dave,
What exactly are ceramic feedbelt stabilizers? I ask because my 16-32 feedbelt tore at the belt joint recently for no apparent reason. I was thicknesing head plate veneers, so I don't...

Just a thought, I have tried to get the other plans rolled instead of folded from the usual sources. They replied that shipping would be too expensive if shipped in a tube, I for one do not care. I...

I have had the Ted Davis loar drawing on my kitchen wall for some time, and the other day I was looking at the top thickness and of course they are in mm. Being semi old school I havn't made the...