Well as some of you know I decided recently to build a mandolin. This has been a project I've been wanting to do for a long time. I've been practicing and playing my Fender A style mandolin and enjoying it, but it's just not an F style. I've had Roger Siminoff's Constructing a Bluegrass Mandolin for a long time with the intention of building one "someday". Well that someday started this past weekend.
The first step was finding a nice piece of Maple which I did at Woodcraft. JohnW offered to help me resaw the piece of Maple and Friday afternoon we revealed the beauty of the piece of Maple. It started out as a block about 10/4 :
Then made the first cut to rip the piece in half lengthwise and this is what we saw:
We then split the two halves in half and after glueing up the 2 bookmatched sets and cutting them to a rough shape this is where I am on the build.
I will be documenting and posting as much about the build as I can. I am really excited about going through this process. I hope everyone else enjoys the WIP pics as I move through this build.
Thanks for looking.
The first step was finding a nice piece of Maple which I did at Woodcraft. JohnW offered to help me resaw the piece of Maple and Friday afternoon we revealed the beauty of the piece of Maple. It started out as a block about 10/4 :
Then made the first cut to rip the piece in half lengthwise and this is what we saw:
We then split the two halves in half and after glueing up the 2 bookmatched sets and cutting them to a rough shape this is where I am on the build.
I will be documenting and posting as much about the build as I can. I am really excited about going through this process. I hope everyone else enjoys the WIP pics as I move through this build.
Thanks for looking.