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Bob_H

Post subject: Octave mandolin - first build

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 4:02 am

Walnut

Joined: Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:05 pm
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First name: Bob
Last Name: Holbert
City: Lyndoch
State: South Australia
Zip/Postal Code: 5351
Country: Australia
Focus: Build
Status: Amateur

I have been getting a great deal of pleasure from learning to build and play the mandolin, so have decided to add an octave mandolin to the family.

It is a 20 15/16 inch scale length, lattice braced with a pin bridge, drawing on the techniques and plans in Graham McDonald's "The Bouzouki Book". Sound board is sitka spruce, back and sides claro walnut, neck is Queensland maple and the fingerboard lacey sheoak. Headstock veneer, rosette and end graft will be river oak and have yet to decide on the bindings (either dark - ebony / blackwood - or light - maple).

I finished refining the bracing this afternoon and attached the sound board to the sides - a very satisfying stage of the build process!

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Bob_H

Post subject: Re: Octave mandolin - first build

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 6:02 am

Walnut

Box closed, overhang trimmed, mortise and tenon cut and fitted. Attachment bolts 5mm too short, so new ones in the mail. Time to start shaping the neck.

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