Amateur Lutherie, Part 1

[failmaster]

As some of you will be aware, I've been saying for some time now that I'm going to build myself an octave mandola (it's kind of like a big mandolin). Well, I've finally started...

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[moreteadk]

My dad would love this. :) Then he would start wondering why it wasn't a guitar. :p

[failmaster]

You're welcome to point him at my journal - it's not a friends-locked post.

[moreteadk]

I might do that then. :)

He had ambitions of building his own electric guitar, but I think that project has been put on the shelf. Curiously enough he managed to inspire my uncle to build one too and learn how to play it. He actually finished his and is taking guitar lessons.

[failmaster]

When you say 'build' was he going to buy a read-made neck and/or fretboard, and just build the body and assemble it all, or was he starting from chunks of dead tree and finishing with a guitar?

Anyway, electrics are comparatively easy. Tell him he should make an acoustic! :p

[moreteadk]

No, really build-build. He got as far as glueing wood together for the next and getting it (I think) shaped. And that was about it, I think.

Well, electrics are really his main interest. He gave himself one for Christmas one year and barely had time to celebrate christmas with the rest of us for the rest of that evening.