Search:

I'm refretting and fitting a cumberland bridge to Pilot #16, signed June 11, 09. I'm not the owner, just the instrument technician. Not sure if the owner wants to bandy his name about.....but I can...

Maybe one of the folks who got the siminoff book and didn't like it will sell you their copy... I used that book for my first three F style mando builds... very helpful, but getting a set of Loar...

I'm with you, Jonathan. That's a little steep for my needs, though it sounds like an excellent tool. I was originally wondering if someone had converted some dividers or deep -reach calipers to do...

Greetings:

I want to measure the thickness of the tops of intact mandolins. I know others have done it: I'm wondering what your measuring device of choice might be for this. I have a 1"...

I've mostly built electric basses : active, passive, midi interface etc.....but repair anything with strings. Wrnchbnder is on the money! The only things I would add are:

1. The more...

#18 looks a little like John Duffy's "Duck"....

I'm in your same boat, Sebo: I've built two, both I sold to friends and I am totally hooked on building Mandos (in addition to small bodied...

I like the process of carving and voicing... what i don't like is hogging out the wood to get close enough to do the 'fancy stuff' I would never be interested in using the CNC as a duplicator. My...

Thanks to all who responded. Fusion 360 sounds amazing, but I fear that the learning curve will be way too steep with a program like that . Since so many of my luthier friends are using Rhino, I...

Thank you very much, all......still weighing my options as to whether I even want to invest into the 3d software. As I initially said, I have a decent set of 2d programs I've created for hogging...

Thanks for that feedback: I downloaded the demo program of aspire and fooled with it a little while ago......I didn't get too far into it but it did seem more for the sign carvers and hobbyists. ...

Greetings: long time CNC user (5+ years) .... but I've always done my stringed instrument work in 2d using the Vectric Vcarve pro program that came with my shopbot desktop. I made a 2d program for...

I caution you about mixing dust with elmers: it will pretty much always be noticeable as the elmers doesn't take stain or finish well and you'll have a blotchy area. I taught guitar building at the...

Thanks for the kind words, Inkling..... We have some great wildlife rescue teams here... all is back to normal..... Top cabinets are gettin hung over the weekend.... but all I really want to do is...

THAT’s what that was??????? I was sitting on my deck down on the Cape in Harwich.... suddenly a brown plume completely blocked out the sun for about 1/2 hour....Birds dropping from the sky, the kids...

I have been lucky to sell nearly everything I've built. Sometimes (early on) it was the cost of parts and a few adult beverages... but for the most part I make enough to continue to fund my hobby,...

Add me to the list of retired teachers making high quality sawdust in my basement..... i had built lots of instruments while teaching.. so the jigs etc are all made. I've built lots of acoustic and...

I've used a lot of walnut over the years: very stable, very beautiful. In electric basses and acoustic guitars, it has a stronger fundamental note than mahogany without the midrange overtones, and...

Thank you, sir. Unfortunately, prior to the refinish it was so rickety that I couldn't string it up... The finish I ended up with was definitely thinner than the original lacquer finish.... I used...

Thank you , Sir. We originally talked about replacing the binding only and leaving it distressed......but there ended up being a fair amount of chipping on the sides, so ultimately we ended up...

I thought long and hard about it , CW: But I'm a mandolin rookie, (though I've built all kinds of stringed instruments nice 1978) and this being a customer's mandolin, I talked with him about it and...

This being only my third binding job on an F style instrument, I wasn't happy with my work on the scroll area, but , frankly, it was on a par with the original.... and the owner is ecstatic.... :-)

Greetings, You may have recalled back aroun last November that I was asked to replace the rotted binding on a 1972 F5. It ended up being a total cosmetic rebuild.

I cut out the original...

Fine woodworking periodically does tests of common woodworking glues. Some years back in one such test they compared HHG and the franklin liquid hide glues: Their tests concluded that the liquid...

I had that Maple up in in my shed....had totally forgotten I had it. It wasn't wide enough for a 2 piece back,and it was my first couple instruments, it could have easily ended in the wood stove,...

Haha,Bill.....you do not want a sound clip from me....I'm a bass player and guitarist...mostly bass.....I think I know three chords on the mando. I do have a friend who is a virtuoso: Traditional...