Source: Yanuziello Stringed Instruments A luthier who lives in the Niagara area – I found his website while perusing the Mandolin Cafe’s Builders directory. Time to update my own list!
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Mandolin Tailpiece Install or Replace
Gary Nava Archtop#5 Neck
Gary Nava demonstrates how he fabricates his laminated necks, and talks about why he does it that way. He then describes how he inlays the headstock. Finally he cuts the start of the volute.
Lawrence Smart Stringed Instruments
Source: Lawrence Smart Stringed Instruments Author of “The Modern Mandolin”, from a 1995 Guild of American Luthiers lecture.
Redhead Mandolins | An Alternative to Factory Production
An Alternative to Factory Production Source: Redhead Mandolins | An Alternative to Factory Production Redhead Mandolins. His website found by reference in an interview in Mandolin Cafe; I came across this luthier (Nevin Hahs) previously – he once called himself, and his blog, “Lex Luthier”. I’m not …
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Mandolin construction – soundhole trim
Description of the construction of a Coombe mandolin – soundhole trim Source: Mandolin construction – soundhole trim
Pickup The World – Love your sound
Source: Pickup The World – Love your sound
A Luthier’s Blog (Gary Nava – UK)
Gary Nava’s Blogspot. Source: A Luthier’s Blog (Gary Nava’s Blogspot). He seems to have had this going since 2006. Hi, I make mostly mandolins and guitars, entirely by myself and by hand. Although I’m based in the Norfolk Fens, my instruments can be found all over the world. I made my first guitar when I …
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Homepage – Wilkie Stringed Instruments
Custom Hand-crafted Archtop guitars (and Mandolins!) Source: Homepage – Wilkie Stringed Instruments He exhibited at the MGS in 2011 and 2012. I had a quick spin with one of his Mandos, and it sounded awesome! Made me want to make one myself… He had some some excellent photos of hand-carving backs and tops, and well …
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Allen Guitars & Luthier Supplies Fingerboard Slotting Article
Source: Allen Guitars & Luthier Supplies Fingerboard Slotting Article Fun With Fretboards by Bob Smakula Posted by permission. Originally printed in the WINTER ‘95 edition of THE OLD-TlME HERALD (In which Bob discovers that Allen Guitars makes better fretboard slots than Gibson did in the 1920s)