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Thank for the input y'all. I got some feeler gauges out and it looks like the actual clearance between 12th fret and string is a hair over 1mm, is that in the range where I should just go ahead and...

I let a couple years go by without playing, and now that I've gotten around to picking it back up again I figured it was time to finally get myself something nice and quit struggling with cheap...

For the past couple of months, I've been starting every practice session out with about 20 minutes of just scale drills (up and down the scale, broken thirds, pentatonic scales, arpeggios, whatever...

Thanks for the advice and recommendations, everyone. The link to Marty Jacobsen's work in particular was great, I think I'm going to follow up with him and see what I can work out. The stylings on...

It's been a couple years, and I've decided to put down the cheap Ovation I've been using and get myself a proper instrument. The trick is that I'm vegan, which means I'm going to have to find...

Woo, this thread blew up. I'll try to address everything that's come up, sorry if I miss something.

For starters, the Ovation and Mandobird were both good suggestions...but I already own them...

Thanks for the info, everyone. For a little more background, I'm contemplating on taking my local guitar store up on their trade-up policy, so I'd need something straightforward to have ordered, I'm...

Yeah, it's usually the inlay that's a problem, but it seems like whenever I do find one without MOP inlay they're using a bone nut. I think hide glue has mostly fallen out of favor, but I'll be sure...

I'm looking to upgrade to a better mandolin (I'm looking in the $450-500-ish range) and it seems that just about every mandolin I'm able to find in that price range uses either mother-of-pearl inlay,...

The best part is that the messages are supposed to be encoded at inaudible frequencies but they're distributed as MP3...the MP3 format removes inaudible frequencies during compression. Someone...

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The one that's bothering me most right now is a C chord with the first finger second fret on the D string, and the second finger barring across the third fret on the A and E strings. Although now...

I'm five or six months in now, and I'm starting to feel almost half decent at the mandolin (my first instrument), but the one thing that really gets me is barre chords. They're hard with my index...

I've been playing for a couple months now, and I started out using some thin (.76mm) guitar picks that I picked up when I bought my mandolin. After reading around a little, at one point I tried a...

Thanks for the replies everyone, I really appreciate everyone taking the time to explain things thoroughly.

So I'm a complete beginner, both to mandolins and to music. I bought my first mandolin maybe three or four weeks ago, and I've been making some headway but I'm still nowhere near decent at it.
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Thanks; I'm a lot better with a camera than an instrument at this point ;)

Thanks to everyone for the advice, I went ahead and returned the mandolin. I replaced it with something a little nicer...

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This is the cheapo mandolin I picked up last week for my first instrument. It seems to be working well enough (at least as far as I'm capable of discerning), but I just noticed that the tuning...