Mandola bridge? - mandolincafe. com I would recommend that for a flattop, you use a bridge with a continuous foot The bridge is an essential brace—particularly on a flattop—and there's no sense in breaking up the contact
Which Hofner mandolin? This old German Höfner (Hofner) mandolin is currently being restored for me by a skilled luthier While looking for info on this specific model I wasn't able to google any models with similar f-holes
Flat top with f-holes - mandolincafe. com I'm building a little single cutaway guitar shaped flat top here, and I was planning to use f-holes Well, f-holes of a sort, but anyway
Soundboard Woods - Mandolin Cafe Such a proposed exercise would have limited use and would certainly hold no interest for me at all! When you are finished, you will have x number of instruments representing x number of rim assemblies, x backs, x tops, x necks (and the fastening to body therof) and x number of variables (to the umpteenth power)
Italian Folk Songs - mandolincafe. com Sheri Mignano is about to release a big book of Italian tunes at the SF Mandolin Festival coming right up She's an accordion player and I imagine the book, like the site Martin mentioned above, will require some adapting for mandolin
From Guitar to Mandocello. . . Thanks Folks It's good to know I have options This Froggy one is very interesting, especially because it obviously looks like a guitar 'turned' mandocello
The infamous Savannah SF 100 - Mandolin Cafe Hello I just bought my first mandolin It is a Savannah SF 100 The guy wanted 130 $ for the case strap and all I talked him down to 100 because the intonation was bad
Swedish octave mandolin? Is there such a thing, or, is it called Swedish bizouki? Is it simply an octave mandolin tuned how is it tuned?