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Thanks Thomaston. I appreciate it. I'm glad you like the blog buddhu. I'm trying to keep it updated as often as possible. I'm actually about to mount the tuning machines, tail piece, and sand the bridge. Then it will be time to string 'er up in the white . . . finally. :shock: Hopefully I will be pl...

buddhu - sounds like you are ready to go! Grab a tool or two and jump in!!

Thanks for the nice comments.

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Trout

Thanks fearfaoin. I appreciate it!

Thomaston - Very cool! Sounds great too! I will ditto this over on the MandoCafe board. Thanks for the post.

rh wrote:Joe Foley mandolin #268


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Beautiful mando!

s1m0n - Don has a really nice kit. Well worth the money. Good luck if you choose to build!

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Trout

Hi All: Besides 'trying' (optimal word . . . 'try') to play, I also like to mess around with woodworking. A few years ago I built a zouk kit that came out ok. But since then I've really started reading a lot of material on luthery, and have watched a fair number of videos, as I want to give building...

Thanks RainInEden_K. I appreciate your input. I'm glad that the shadows work for you and your band. I finally had to give up though. I went w/a Baggs and a pre-amp and made all the difference in the world. No 'hum' at all now. On a different note - I checked out your band's webpage. Love the music! ...

Hi Projektio 28 - I've had a TC for about 3 or 4 years now and really like it. I'm not great with it (even though I play it a lot), but even with my flub-ups it still has a nice clean tone, and good volume. I've never played a CS, so I can't speak about them, but I don't think you would go wrong wit...

Great! Thanks for posting the link. I really enjoy his tune playing. Plus, my first wooden flute was one of his . . .

Well, it was apparently the Shadow pickups . . . both of them. While buying the Bagg Para Acoustic today, I also purchased a Bagg Radius pickup. Came home, hooked up the preamp, pasted the pickup on the bouzouki and absolutely no 'hum'. Tried it on the mando, and no hum. The Shadow (for the second t...

Tim, I can't thank you enough for that very lucid response. It makes loads of sense. I have spent the morning plugging the amp into different outlets in the house (testing the 3-to-2 on all of them), and it is the same problem everywhere. Tried the wire test and that sometimes 'worked' and sometimes...

Thanks a lot for the responses folks. I will definately try the wire trick, and the 3-to-2 plug in the morning. I really appreciate it! If you don't mind, a couple more questions/comments? fearfaoin - I'm not sure if the volume/tone control is technically a preamp. It doesn't have a battery or any p...

Thanks fearfaoin! This is really helpful. But, I think my problem is that I don't have a preamp . . . I was told on the other board that piezo pickups probably need a preamp. Does that sound correct to you? Right now I just plugging directly into the amp. (Told y'all I was clueless!) Thanks again fo...

Hi fearfaoin: Thanks for the post. If you take a look at the photo of the Shadow pickup (follow the link above in the original post), you will be able to see that the male end is all metal. It is not covered by another material. So, that is what I meant when I said 'I grasped the metal end'. Hope th...

Thanks Tim! I just posted over there. Fingers crossed . . .

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Trout