I started to put this on "mandolin backs"...but why not just show some thing in progress
I started to put this on "mandolin backs"...but why not just show some thing in progress
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Another shot
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Red spruce tops
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
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No. 1 along with "Lloyd". Lloyd is the one with a neck!!
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
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You making mandos now Daryl?
Certainly trying to. Let's not say "making" until some are done. I have done two dobros and about 6 "Fender" electrics from scratch though
dgw
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Not a mando, but a lap steel, 25" Dobro scale. Shouldn't every instrument have a scroll?
Full view:
Now that looks truly bizzare (and I mean that in a good way).
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Keep your instruments in your cases. This is what happens when cousins marry.
My #1, first stringing up tonight, and no imploding tops or anything. I'd say I have about four million work hours left on this thing, but I just couldn't help stringing it up when I realized it was possible.
/Magnus
My latest two F-5 s prior to fench polishing..Western bigleaf maple on the left and Michigan Red on the right......Jamie
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The bigleaf one getting french polished.......Jamie
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Magnus,
Aaaaaaaaaand...........?
Good looking stuff guys!
That red maple has a sort of wiggly figure that I like (Darryl and Jamie). I have a bunch of big leaf that has similar figure and I can make 1 piece backs with much of it. I got it for making archtop guitars mostly, but there is enough short stuff to make a dozen mandos, it will be fun going through this wood.
Jamie...really nice looking work..keep it up
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
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Very nice work gentleman.....you've got me thinking about trying to build.
Very nice stuf..
I play steel and Must have a mando styled steel like that, Awsome Idea!!!! when, how much, that is the freaking coolest!!!! nice work!!
Russ
RR
Russ,
I've been itching to build a mando for a couple of years, but I know I need to build my woodworking skills. I've carved a couple of top plates out of scrap pine for practice, and I've done re-frets, refinishes, and some major repairs on cheap instruments. I play Dobro, too and I go the idea of making a lap steel because it seemed like one of the easiest stringed instruments to make. I bought Tele hardware and pickups and planned to just build it up on a 2 X 6 slab. As I was making a full scale drawing, I got to thinking that I wanted to give a little shape to the body, like the old Oahu models. Then, I ran across my plexiglass mando template, and set it on top of the drawing. I was just going to use the shape without a scroll, but one thing has led to another, and I figured that I'll just go ahead and give it everything I've got.
The headstock inlay is actually 1/16" maple. (I'm cheap) I actually found that flamed maple for the body at Home Depot. (I'm really cheap) I'm going to use more 1/16" mahogany, maple and cherry to do a vine inlay on the fretboard. (Did I mention I'm cheap?) I figure I'll be done by the end of August, making this a three month project, working evenings and weekends. I'm having a ball and it's coming out better than I expected.
This is instrument #1. When I'm done, I'll have to decide what I'm going to do next. CAUTION: Building is addictive! I've got about $200 in material and supplies. (We won't count that drill press!) I didn't plan on making this to sell, and I haven't kept track of the hours. Even at minimum wage, I'll bet I couldn't make and sell another to get much of a profit. You can buy a new Gold Tone lap steel for less than $400 - but ... it doesn't have a scroll!
Thanks for the encouragement. Someday I'll make a REAL instrument.
REAL NICE! good to hear man, I have a few steels and one pedal steel, ( Roy Smeck, no-name oldie supro?, a morrell 8, and a Sho-Bud) But that one would be awsome to play out with. The Finish is real nice too.
Keep on building!!
Russ
RR
Sharons guitar shaped octave, Rays 2 point with mesquite burl martin bowlback style peghead, on a bed of fresh creamy delicious engelmann tops, in the 103 degree shade the ol black walnut
Here's my first attempt at building: #Harlan #1 waiting on my lacquer order to arrive so it can shine!
First attempt? very very nice.
"The Mando Monster"
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I'm with you MandoMonster, this stuff kills me. I can't even nail two boards together. I am absolutely floored by the talent out there when it comes to building an instrument as difficult as a floretine style mandolin. This is just another factor that makes being a mando-head great!
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