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I've built a few classical guitars and a couple of steel strings flattop models with back and sides out of both Spanish cypress and Monterey cypress; I would not use it for tops, but I would use any...

Add enough luthier's tears and almost anything will go back together! ;)

If I can get AI to bind F5 mandolins and do finish work, I'm all in...;)

I used to write for and make a significant portion of my income from many of the old print media sources listed.

Hipsters will shave their beards and learn to drive manual transmissions before...

That is fairly common. I have an old Gibson torture rack:

The carbon itself is bonded together with epoxy. Sometimes you can use hot hide glue if you scuff it up to create a mechanical bond. CA glue also works fine.

Since you are asking about live situations and mentioned a couple of pedal type tuners, are you using a pickup?

Sonic Research Turbo Tuner.

It is the first thing on my pedalboard and kicks @$$...

I have an ancient "Cremona hygrometer" on my wall that I learned decades ago from an early mentor.

A popsicle sized piece of rosewood is glued to a similar size piece of spruce and stuck in a...

There are plenty of guitar specific forums, but none like this one with heavy mandolin use. I found it very useful and made a lot of transactions whereby I could trade a mandolin for a guitar or...

Luke's top is off the test rig and we glued it to the final rib garland this evening with the new go-bar deck. (More broken basses in the background!)

His fingerboard is made and fretted; binding...

I only use hot hide glue for the entire instrument build across the spectrum of the entire mandolin family, guitars, and the double basses.

All of the processes are continually evolving; the back...

Ask one of the other fellows to upload some video; that's not my best skill set & I'm way too busy to add that to the list!

Brandon's top is carved and tonebar braced. We glued it on to the live...

The air volume and body cavity resonance on most mandocellos works well for an octave mandolin; I make most of mine with larger bodies. The scale length will likely be a bit long, so you can use a...

I played over 40 Lloyd Loar signed mandolins, mandolas, and mandocellos plus a ton of other great instruments in the last two months.

Guess what? They all sounded like me playing an old mandolin....

Great show today! Lots of cool people, plenty of cool instruments, and right down the road.

Like every big show I have attended, that "one guy" was playing a fully cranked Marshall half stack the...

The Hampton Brothers in east Tennessee have the finest selection of red spruce in the nation.

A 50 or 36 grit sanding disc removes wood almost as fast as one of those chainsaw wheel death traps and is much safer.

Scroll through youtube and watch some of the scary videos where the...

When I do use an adjustable truss rod, I make my own out of titanium for the lower weight and the different flexing response vs steel.

J. B. Alred's company, Dragonplate manufactures all of their carbon fiber in the US and supplies almost all of the other people in the nation who then sell it for a highly inflated price.
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* self edited* I read your other thread and it answered my questions.

You mentioned using an Acoustic Image Clarus; I use the 900 watt two channel AI Focus. Are you setting those controls flat?
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Another quorum of half deaf old geezerz arguing the subtleties of tone; my favorite peer group topic!

Above all the rest, I feel that the individual player's ears are the largest determining...

I brings me great comfort to see a $100,000 mandolin with a piece of paper stuffed in a low nut slot just like the rest of us do!

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'Great show.

It is primarily guitars and amps. It is definitely NOT Loarfest, but last year there were more old mandolins than I have ever seen at...

I have fond memories of those issues being very exciting.

I was in my early twenties and as soon as a new one arrived in the mail, I'd take it a couple of miles down the road to Don Teeter's shop...