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Dave,

It looks like Mike Doolin has taken his drawings, pictures, and instructions down off his site. I still have them. Let me know if you want a copy of my files.

Ed

Yesterday, I got to see several of these mandolin bridges in rosewood and ebony that Michael made using his CNC set up. They are super nice and the process by which they are made is slick. It's cool that the saddles have the desired radius and the string slots accurately positioned and cut right off the CNC. It doesn't stand out in the photo, but the saddles have some nice surface shaping details that catch the light from different angles and I think those shapes would be very hard to accomplish, especially to this level of quality and consistency, using hand tool methods. Very nice work.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

We're in full stop on taking in any more big jobs for a while, again. This happened half of last year and we didn't even make it through January this year without getting booked up on bigger jobs.

Last week was busy as indicated and some of the highlights were:

Put a Lyric in a Lowden for a Lady named Lindon and no the alteration did not escape me (or her after I joked with her about it). The nice thing now about being an old man is you can get away with a lot more with people in so much as they think you're a harmless old fart.

Several Les Pauls in for pup swaps and set-ups. A very nice Collings acoustic that got an Anthem. Lots of Teles and Strats too for set-ups, pup swaps, etc. Two Martins for pups and set-ups and one Martin with a full length back split, very unusual and abuse caused we're sure, they let it dry out in a dorm.

Dave got done a couple "whole nice yards" jobs. The whole nine yards to us refers to neck resets, maybe a bridge reglue or replacement, likely fret dressing, new nut, saddle and usually undoing all the really poor prior work that someone else did... One of the neck resets had had a prior California neck reset where the....... person...... split the neck bock and left it that way....

We also had our share of folks complaining about intonation problems when as we have been discussing here most of their issues were the nut slots were too high making a simple set-up all they needed. I frequently have to speak with guys my age about why we geezers and jumbo frets may, not always but may have issues with intonation too especially if running wimpy 9's.

Anyway we are busy and that's when I love my work when I can just go through one after another and by noon have earned us all $500 or so. So far this month every day has been busy for me and the weather here has been pretty good too so no complaints.

PS: Been playing a lot and we are getting the band back together. . Some of my childhood friends who are still alive are getting together to jam and play some of the old stuff we used to play.

VIDEO!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Working on my third Flamenco guitar. I have also started flamenco playing lessons.

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My memory is so good, sometimes I remember things that never happened.

I was thinking the same exact thing! Lol

Pat

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Pat

The only commonality that we have is people would throw beer bottles at us too

Yup, mission from God, was the first thing that popped into my head too