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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 22, 2018 at 9:10am

Cool.

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Permalink Reply by Fergus Lester on February 22, 2018 at 5:42am

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 22, 2018 at 9:16am

How thick is the box?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 23, 2018 at 8:40pm

More work done on the Bo Diddly build to the neck, still a little ways to go.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 23, 2018 at 8:42pm

Found this tennis racket on the curbside. Always wanted a A-style Mandolin.;)

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 9, 2018 at 9:27pm

I went back to work on my Bo Diddly style git. I stained the sides and back of the box with a light shade of Ebony stain. Then I used the same stain on the neck, headstock and fretboad in a dark shade. Also drill ed holes and installed fret markers. I used Seafoam Green plastic coat hanger for that, though it would look nice against the black and look nice with the Caymen Green Metalflake that's going on the box top.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 9, 2018 at 9:31pm

Next will be the side markers, frets and Tru-Oil on the fretboard, headstock, neck and box sides.

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Permalink Reply by Blues Frog on March 10, 2018 at 2:01am

Paul,

What do you use to cut your dots from the coat hanger? That's a great idea. One hanger can provides many gits worth of dots.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Dean on March 10, 2018 at 4:20am

I took Paul's suggestion as well, I used my dremel with a thin cutoff wheel, then used an exacto to clean up the flashing.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 10, 2018 at 9:10am

I use a Xacto hand saw. The problem with the "coat hanger dots" is that some have a hollow center through them. So 1 hanger was used for this fretboard and the rest went in the trash. Still not a bad deal since I got 9 or 10 hangers for less than 2 bucks at Walmart. Some of the hangers have a weird design in the middle that can look great.

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on March 10, 2018 at 7:00am

Looks good Paul and I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who takes off his pants to build instruments.  :D

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Permalink Reply by Richard Dean on March 10, 2018 at 9:02am

As long as you don't have to take off your pants to play with your instrument LOL

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