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"All my CBGs (and banjo and mandola) since my very first have used bone for the nut.…" Mark Werner replied Mar 30, 2009 to Shaping and slotting the nut	13	Mar 30, 2009 Reply by spencer
"Look around the site, you'll see many ideas. Most of our cigar-box items only have t…" Mark Werner replied Mar 21, 2009 to Building a Neck	6	Mar 22, 2009 Reply by William H Bonney
"Looking around a bit, I found a Kay baritone uke advertised on eBay...The seller giv…" Mark Werner replied Feb 7, 2009 to Cigar Box Baritone Ukulele	3	Feb 7, 2009 Reply by Charlie
"There are more-or-less standard neck angles on commercially-produced instruments, bu…" Mark Werner replied Feb 6, 2009 to neck angles really necessary?	7	Feb 6, 2009 Reply by Mark Werner
"Working here at "Wash U" as I do, I find a lot of scrap around here from the constan…" Mark Werner replied Feb 2, 2009 to Size of neck blanks	15	Feb 2, 2009 Reply by Wade
"Looks like a bunch of potential guitar necks to me..." Mark Werner replied Feb 1, 2009 to Size of neck blanks	15	Feb 2, 2009 Reply by Wade
"If you want to pick through a lot of lumber, Ideally you'd want to find a piece that…" Mark Werner replied Jan 30, 2009 to Size of neck blanks	15	Feb 2, 2009 Reply by Wade
"I usually use standard 1X2 lumber; oak is easily the stiffest from the big-box hardw…" Mark Werner replied Jan 29, 2009 to Size of neck blanks	15	Feb 2, 2009 Reply by Wade
"A couple of weeks ago, Harbor Freight (importers of Chinese-made tools) had a pretty…" Mark Werner replied Jan 14, 2009 to cutting Soundhole diameters	5	Jan 14, 2009 Reply by lenny purnell

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Mark Werner's Discussions (401)

"All my CBGs (and banjo and mandola) since my very first have used bone for the nut.…"

"Look around the site, you'll see many ideas. Most of our cigar-box items only have t…"

"Looking around a bit, I found a Kay baritone uke advertised on eBay...The seller giv…"

"There are more-or-less standard neck angles on commercially-produced instruments, bu…"

"Working here at "Wash U" as I do, I find a lot of scrap around here from the constan…"

"Looks like a bunch of potential guitar necks to me..."

"If you want to pick through a lot of lumber, Ideally you'd want to find a piece that…"

"I usually use standard 1X2 lumber; oak is easily the stiffest from the big-box hardw…"

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