News
June '10 The Zoufest raffle mandolin has been won by fellow bouzouki builder Joe Mendel. Congratulations! I have just delivered a new Wombat fiddle and strung up a prototype Pocket Mandolin, which has been an interesting design exercise.
May '10 I built a mandolin for ZoukFest in the US last yaer and they have put it up for raffle to raise funds for the event. They sold all 100 tickets in 5 days, which was very pleasing to see. A picture below as well as on the Mandolin page where there are a few more two point instruments. A new F model will be up soon.
There is also some content on the Mandola and Mandocello pages (at last).
Jan '10 The Mandolin Project has been available through Independent Publishing Group from October 2009 and available through just about every book store anywhere as well as on-line stores such as Amazon.
It has been printed in 'perfect bound' form using 'lay flat' binding with the plans included in an envlope in the back. I still have a few of the ring bound versions left if people really want those. The retail price of the new print run is now US$25 so all the original print run will be $25 (plus postage) as well
I currently do not have any copies of The Bouzouki Book here but they will soon be back in stock. Luthiers Mercantile and Stewart MacDonald do have copies.
A chapter on building mandolins from the
1908 book Violins and Other Stringed Instruments, edited by Paul N Hasluck
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