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Or look in our Library. Several members have build drum sanders before.

More stuff may have happened in the old days, Clay, but it has been many, many years since there has been any pruning for archiving at all, so it is kind of a moot point. Nothing is pruned now, just minor spelling corrections and the rare prohibited material removal. This new phpBB software we use n...

See if you can find something a little bigger than a Dixie cup, more like a 16 oz sour cream container. Dixie cups are rather small and might have too tight of a radius. I think the two sides of the reed are basically supposed to be just touching, not open.

Deb had us aggressively remove entire "content-less" posts in the old days when prepping a discussion for archiving (to minimize size), but we were (and still are!) absolutely forbidden from ever changing anyone's posts, short of very minor corrects. Other than staff, only the original pos...

There generally is no need for thinning when using yoghurt containers. They are about the correct thickness to start with. Try adjusting how far the reed sticks out from the end of the tube. Do you have a close-up picture of the reed?

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Peter, I did a very similar repairs years ago, except the head was somehow lost after some "sat" on the guitar. Very low tech, but the proof is in the pudding: https://www.mimf.com/old-lib/replace_peghead.htm There may be other similar repairs in the Library as well. The job at first appea...

If you used the bottled liquid hide glue, check the date code. That stuff degrades quickly and has a notoriously short useful life. Don't even think about it if it is more than a year old. I used a fresh bottle once years and never had a problem, but I have long since switched to hot hide glue. As B...

FYI, you should be able to edit your own posts within 30 minutes of creation (pencil icon on the message). I deleted your duplicate message.

Mine came with a USB C (small) connector, and an adapter for the normal size USB port, so you can plug it into anything with a USB port. I don't use it very much, but it does come in very handy when I do. The biggest problem with them is holding them still enough to take a good picture. It is less o...

I'm no expert on these old woodwinds, but since the free end reed is contained inside the cap, I wouldn't think the cap dimensions will make that much difference. In general, only the bore dimensions from the reed to the open end matter for pitch, etc. You might want to think about a replaceable cap...

Awesome chatoyance on that one! Like Clay's, the body on mine is also tapered, 75 mm sides at the neck, 84 mm at the tail. Not sure where I picked that idea up from.

You might want to mock up the top of the neck out of a 2x4 or whatever to see if it works for you. Mine neck was ever so slightly wider than McDonald's dimensions, but, as I said, I would probably make it wider if I were to make another. It all depends on your preferences. There are no real standard...

Gotcha! I think I basically did the same thing with 4 wedges, got the intonation correct, then made a single compensated bridge.

No, sorry, it's been 20 years and I have no clue why. I did not have access to many plans back then, and Graham McDonald's Octave Mandolin book wasn't out yet. I remember carving the neck more or less by feel, and found that a rounded V fit my hand much better than an even curve. Maybe I determined ...

I made mine 35 mm (1 3/8") at the nut. 45 mm (1 11/16") at the 12th fret, and 48 mm (1 7/8") at the 20th, 585 mm scale length (about 23", if I remember correctly). If anything, I wouldn't mind the fretboard being slightly wider. I made my own custom compensated bridge, so I can't...

Don't forget we still have the entire archives of the previous forum, as well as the current, 24 years worth in total! Go to the MIMF Library from the forum home page. You have a choice of searching either the new or old archives.

Intel did it, so can you!
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We don't have big on-line parties like we used to, but the MIMF opened 24 years ago today and it still informative and sane after all these years. That means July 5, 2022 will mark our 25th "silver" anniversary. Please share your thoughts on how we should celebrate this monumentous occasio...

I agree. This is a flute, not a whistle, so the tapered side of the embouchure hole is not needed or wanted. The embouchure hole needs to be a clean and sharp pipe perpendicular to the main bore. Adding an external plate probably will not help, you need to actually fix the embouchure hole. Peter, fi...