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Custom, hand-built guitars and mandolins, restoration, repair and consignment for collectors and Bluegrass and acoustic musicians by Chris Oliver in Springfield, Illinois.
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Category Archives: Mandolin
Spring F5 – 4 – fretboard1
An ebony billet turned into several fretboards. When working with solid wood, always make more than you need… you know what happens otherwise. I cut the blanks from a billet I acquired from a woodworker in the state of Washington. … Continue reading
Spring F5 – 3
More easy items arrive. Here are the “PAT’D JAN 19 – 21″ ebony bridges.
Spring F5 -2
Wow, the easiest part of the build is complete. The cases have arrived! Here are a few flight cases and a couple soft backpacker-style cases.
Spring F5 -1
This spring I will be building several mandolins based on the Lloyd Loar signed model I wrote about in another post, 1923 Gibson F-5 Lloyd Loar #73984. I will be naming each post “Spring F5″ followed by the post number … Continue reading
Paduak Fret Marker Dots
Some days it is the little victories that keep the spirits up!