OK. I have discussed this with Scott (and Dan) and we believe this will be a fun project. I hereby donate this mandolin to the Cafe and will serve as a sub-moderator over this thread. The object will be involve as many of our member luthiers and our equipment suppliers in a collaborative restoration of this instrument. When the instrument is finished it will be auctioned off here and the proceeds will all go to Mandolincafe.com. I will also provide some sort of signed label and a certificate will denote all of the participants and their part in the effort.
All members are invited to join in with discussion here of the various aspects of the project and participate in certain decisions that will be made during the course of time. Each luthier that participates will be asked to donate their time and/or materials and pay for shipping to the next luthier that chimes in "I would like to..do such.." It is hoped that the individual tasks can be broken down to where nobody would really be investing more than 2-4 hours of time plus shipping to the next volunteer.
The first task is for me to check a few things out on the mandolin so that there are no surprises later. Then we can proceed with determining the order of tasks. For example, I believe it will need a new rosette prior to a fingerboard. So, obviously the first task cannot be a fingerboard.
I also think it may be appropriate to throw historically correct restoration out the window and invite some modern taste and variety. For example, it is really a straight A, but I have routed the back for binding. At this point anything may go. I think this might be the first thing we discuss and decide.
Game On..........
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