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I am both poor and cheap, so I will probably take it to a luthier. :))

I think I'm going to replace the nut altogether. I'll replace the nut, see how it sounds, and then if I need to, take it to a shop if it's still out of tune.

While it's not completely fixed yet, I'm getting closer to true intonation by scraping out the string grooves in the nut. With these as high as they are, I'd be surprised if this instrument has been...

I'm certainly no kind of expert, but I assume you've tried oiling and cleaning the tuners? It'd be a shame if you spent money trying to get new ones when you could make the old ones work. A drop or...

John, that makes a lot of sense. I'm pretty disappointed that I'm not spending my time playing yet, but at least I'm learning a lot about how the instrument goes together!

I'm about four hours from Austin, in south Texas. I know Austin's got more luthiers than you can shake a stick at, but it's a long way to go.

When I tune it at the first fret, it plays true for the first few frets, and then starts going flat up the neck - the opposite problem I have if I tune it open.

This is pretty dang frustrating!

Well, I don't know how I didn't see this before, but it looks like the neck's bowed slightly. I'm assuming that's the issue. I would have sworn that it was straight when I went to go look at it...

I apologize if this is an obvious question. There's no shop around here that does mandolin setups, so I'm trying to do my own at home, on an old Stradolin.

I've got the bridge set to where the...

Thanks! Maybe next time I go up to Austin (I think that'll be for the Old Settler's Festival, which I can't wait for) I'll get it looked at. Somehow I doubt there are any mandolin techs in my...

I'm a newbie just starting out with mandolins.

Rather than picking up a cheapo pacrim instrument, I shopped around and found a craigslist Strad-o-lin for $175. Part of the way through restringing...