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    Double top mandolin in rosewood/spruce/maple.

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    Working one the details for a new six string one from the infamous Craigslist Log....
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    Double top showing the braced soundboard and the "inner top" in place.

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    I was wondering what a double-top was, and now I understand, thanks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob Roy View Post
    I have that same bike work stand, kinda expensive overkill a light instrument. Octave mando?
    This thread moves so fast I missed your comment. The bike stand has many uses! This is a mandocello. I have it done and am trying to get my hard, flat fingertips back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Clark View Post
    +1 for that. Old Standard has been supplying me with great wood at a very economical price. Their service is fantastic, and the guy I speak with on the phone is always pleasant and knowledgeable. They supply some of the really major builders, but also take the time for a tiny builder like me.
    The guy on the phone at Old Srandard is often my neighbor Jim. Or Tom, a fellow Mid Mo expat.

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    I'm gonna paint it black.
    Really? That wood is beautiful.
    I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.

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    I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.

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    Customer wants black. I'd probably prefer a traditional sunburst, but I have seen some pretty striking black mandolins. If the photos were better you could see the wood is what most would consider pretty pedestrian.
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    Interesting picture and lovely instruments you have posted there, Jo. I notice that the geared tuners are reversed from "normal" worm and cog configuration?
    I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order. - Eric Morecambe

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlesa46741 View Post
    Customer wants black. I'd probably prefer a traditional sunburst, but I have seen some pretty striking black mandolins. If the photos were better you could see the wood is what most would consider pretty pedestrian.
    Ah, fair enough! Customer requests, I get it.

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    Interesting picture and lovely instruments you have posted there, Jo. I notice that the geared tuners are reversed from "normal" worm and cog configuration?
    Thanks! They are standard mandolin 4-on-a-plate tuners on the jarana jarocha on the right of the picture. Do you mean they are just pegs lower than spindles? They wind the usual way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dusepo View Post
    Ah, fair enough! Customer requests, I get it.



    Thanks! They are standard mandolin 4-on-a-plate tuners on the jarana jarocha on the right of the picture. Do you mean they are just pegs lower than spindles? They wind the usual way.
    The tuners on your instrument have the buttons and tuning shaft nearer the nut whereas standard modern geared tuners have the buttons and shafts nearer the toph of the headstock, Jo. Old Gibsons and other makes had tuners like the ones you have here - I was fitting replica relic tuners to a Gibson mandolin for someone a few years back as the original ones kept slipping and would ot hold pitch. I got the correct ones from Stewart MacDonald in the USA. I believe that some were made with the gearing reversed so that you could still turn them in the "conventional" way to tune the instrument. We kept the originals so that if he sold the Gibson later he could include the originals - he has not sold it and plays it regularly.
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    Just got this today. The Style u is On my bench tommorrow.
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    I have Style U tailpiece where the Celluloid string bar is disintegrating. Beings there is no information in regards to repairing. And none to be had as far as a good used part. Ive decided to try to make one. I hope it works. Im doing some test pieces first. For strength, drill ability, and shaping and polishing. If any of you folks have suggestions. Please chime in. I know its not a mandolin.

    I have started a few pieces.
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    Crazy amount of stress on that part for it to be made of celluloid! I have one here in the shop- circa 1924; luckily that part is intact, but....I had to make a complete new upper pegbox!
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    Quote Originally Posted by j. condino View Post
    Crazy amount of stress on that part for it to be made of celluloid! I have one here in the shop- circa 1924; luckily that part is intact, but....I had to make a complete new upper pegbox!
    Pictures?
    I know what I am doing will not be easy . The tailpiece wires will take most the load. Best part is pulling forward. Not up.

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    2 lutes completed this week: A renaissance lute going to Canada and a fretless medieval lute going to Germany.




    By the way, John Kelly, I am enjoying your playing on your youtube channel!
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    Another two happy customers, I am sure, Jo. Two beautiful instruments.
    Thanks so much for comment re my YT channel - I noticed you had subscribed in the past few days. Our musical styles and instruments may vary, but we are all making music (and in both our cases also the instruments we are playing it on)!
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    Three custom inlays.
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    Been working 98% of my time on redoing a couple of doors and remodeling the foyer... but the other 2% I've picked out enough time to do the binding and stain the top for #002. I've got a cream colored binding on a black top, very pleased with how this is turning out!

    For my first build I ordered a CA Bridge, but for this one I'm thinking I'll make my own. However, with a black top, and an ebony fretboard, it seems like an awful lot of black, I was thinking about doing the bridge out of a hard maple instead of ebony, maybe to compliment the binding... any pros or cons there I should be aware of? Is there another light colored species that would be better for a bridge?

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    Tukano--what is your aim in building with two tops? What is gained? I have tried to reason it out but my brain cannot grasp the advantage. Please post an explanation.

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    Those are lovely. I'd love to have the dexterity to do work like that!

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    Beautiful headstocks John!

    This week's post is not what's on my workbench, but what is above it.

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