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how to make a bluegrass mandolin, f5 mandolin construction.
Full size drawings for building a Gibson style f-hole F-5 mandolin designed by Lloyd Loar.
Plans for building an F5 mandolin
How to inlay pearl and abalone in musical instruments.
selecting tonewoods and woods for building mandolins
Instructions to make a bluegrass Gibson-style mandolin like Bill Monroe's
blueprints for building an F5 mandolin.
mandolin kit
Lloyd Loar mandolin
plans for makinf an F5 mandolin
Technical drawing of a mandolin bridge assembly with labeled parts and text instructions.
Roger Siminoff

The Ultimate Bluegrass Mandolin Construction Manual - 4th Edition

$ 54.95 $ 0.00

First published in 1973,  the 4th edition of the Ultimate Bluegrass Mandolin Construction Manual was released in 2021 and has been fully updated and revised with more than 330 color photos and everything you need to know about building a Bill Monroe-style F5 mandolin designed by Gibson's acoustical engineer Lloyd Loar. This book is considered by many to be the luthier's bible for building F-style mandolins. The text includes: a primer on musical acoustics, wood selection, graduating the soundboard and backboard, making the neck, truss rod installation, assembling the rim and body, constructing the fretboard, installing frets, cutting and installing pearl inlay, preparing neck joints, binding the body and peghead, coloring and finishing, string selection, set up, a primer on tap tuning, and 21 full-size fold-out highly-detailed drawings - by themselves a $37.95 value!. A stellar instrument-building manual by heralded luthier and author Roger H. Siminoff.  (2.8 lbs.)

Introduction by heralded luthier Steven Gilchrist

  • 21 full-size fold-out ProSeries F5 construction drawings
  • 2 full-size fold-out fixture drawings
  • 10 full-size peghead inlay drawings by DiAnne Patrick
  • 330+ color photographs
  • 16 luthier signature/date labels
  • A primer on tap tuning and deflection tuning methods
  • Coloring, shading, and finishing techniques
  • Musical frequency charts (for A440 and A431)
  • 150 text pages
  • 9˝x12˝, spiral bound

Purchasers of this book also like our F5 Mandolin Templates and Fixture Drawings.

For highly accurate laser-cut acrylic-plastic templates for building the F5, F4, A1, A5 mandolins and the H5 mandola please visit our sister site, www.siminoffbooks.com or CLICK HERE.