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8-string mandolin, standard tuning, 13,3"scale length, mahogany & oak neck, oak fretboard, two disk piezos.Sounds surprisingly good acoustically. Pretty loud and very mellow for a mandolin. All the more after I added a violin style soundpost (sounds fancy but is just a piece of an old broomstick stuck between soundboard and back…). The piezos sound too sharp and tinny though – should probably have built in some kind of preamp. Thinking about putting in a magnetic pickup instead – any recommendations what works well for a mandolin?Anyway, now I’ll have to learn how to play the mandolin…
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  • Thanks, guys!

    I must say I'm really proud of it - never built anything with so many strings and never made a tapered neck before... and it worked!

  • looks great!

  • Nice!

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