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AND!! with a new bridge. A triangular toothpick was a perfect basematerial.

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No idea.
I have a portrait mandolin as well but also without label.

I was told it was the wife of the owner but suspect it to be a contemporary actress.


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:grin:

Sure, I just thought you all might know a normal mandolin :grin:

It's 19 cm total.

Now: How to make a miniature bridge with 8 grooves? ;)

I'll just have to find a teak splinter somewhere.
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It needs a bridge otherwise in really good shape. ;)

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Aquila makes a set of low tension nylgut strings for mandolin. I like the sound of them, especially for classical music. They are not so shrill as some mandolin strings.

I make my own teflon picks but they are very slippery, so I stuck some pieces of antiskid tape ,meant for boatdecks, to them and they are now very easy to hold, you almost don't have to squeeze them....

Try a Kodiak thumbpick. The only thumbpick I have found that allows you to strum both up and down. You can use it as a thumb- or a thumb/index pick and it stays on your thumb.

I have modified...

What do you want to know?

I've got the strings and the peghead is totally rust free, there is one smaller crack at the lower right of the top but it has been fixed and is stable.

The top and...

I am just this moment restoring a Böhm with glasbridge and it's for sale but I just have a problem with a few spots in the shellac. I even have a key for it, which is always missing.

It's in...

I add a sticky mat(meant for car dashboards) to stop it from moving and tilting and just sit with it.

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In the guitar world there are som peoples that like crazing so much, they freeze their instruments and then heat them, to produce it. It usually happens with Nitrocellulose Lacquer used a lot in th...

I´ve never seen that. Where do you find it?

I have a "hidden" tuner on a banjo, but only because it was on offer and it really only fitted the banjo.

If you use the D'Addarios no one will keep you from placing it under the head.

I think...

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Here is my take on this, with pointer.
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Look up other well documented Italian mandolins from 1890 to 1920 and the wood types are probably the same for yours.
Also the endpiece and tuners. Those things didn't vary very much within the...

OT but buy to stock whenever you find a discount. That way you'll never runout and all your strings are discounted :-)

People also come here to find information, I guess that is also why the threads are kept and not deleted and I find it good internet manners to contribute where you have found help. Be it in an old...

Can we see the tortoise piece, please?

Yes people range Puglisis just a 2. after Calaces, Emberghers etc. but they are still old and might need some TLC

For everyday I bought a 1980s Suzuki MR-200 at a good price and it was almost as...

That's a nice looking mandolin. You don't have to do anything to the scratches but the bowl has at least one cracked seam, so probably(a lot) more, which is difficult to fix.

I have restored a lot...

I just made a set of picks with different shaped points. Teflon is so slippery, that I glued the friction tape to it, before I cut it out.


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Try looking into Hunting shops. It's used for gunstocks all over Europa

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tru+oil&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

And in Polen
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Yes, Nylgut was developed by Aquila as an alternative to gutstrings but wih similar sound.(please no pro et contra war :-) )