Terrific progress. The cherry is a good choice - easy to work with and it will finish nicely. I've used microplanes for quick material removal. A bit "rough", but subsequent filing / scraping...
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Terrific progress. The cherry is a good choice - easy to work with and it will finish nicely. I've used microplanes for quick material removal. A bit "rough", but subsequent filing / scraping...
Yes, that's the neck from my profile picture - and the only mandolin I've built.
I've always done the fretting after the fretboard is installed. Gives me an opportunity to fit the fretboard to the neck after it's glued down before I have to worry about filing the fret ends. ...
Agreed - wonderful pattern. And if I see the pencil lines correctly, that's going to be an interesting headstock shape.
Good luck to you. Very interested to hear how you work out the electronics. I'm a guitar / ukulele builder hobbyist and tried an electric solid body 8-string myself (my son's a player) - was quite...
A year or so ago I built an electric solid-body mandolin for my son. The body is solid birds-eye hard maple (thanks to Kettle Moraine Hardwoods). Neck is lamination of maple and cherry with a...
A year or so ago I built an electric solid-body mandolin for my son. The body is solid birds-eye hard maple (thanks to Kettle Moraine Hardwoods). Neck is lamination of maple and cherry with a...