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Spring F5 – 8 – fretboard4

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Chris Oliver

Keeping to the fretboard work. Here is one fretboard ready for binding.

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Spring F5 – 4 – fretboard1

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Chris Oliver

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 →

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Spring F5 -2

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Chris Oliver

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.

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Spring F5 -1

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Chris Oliver

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 →

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Rick Mari vs. Cocozilla

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Chris Oliver

Local rock guitar hero, Rick Mari, stopped by the shop with Hipbone Sam recently to talk shop and while here gave Cocozilla a hard hitting test drive. I grabbed this video of Rick without any warm-up or approval… sorry Rick, … Continue reading →

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