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Bluegrass F5 style mandolin making

Bluegrass F5 style mandolin making

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Bluegrass F5 style mandolin making

Here is an F5 mandolin I have finished during the Summer 2012.
It is built under the original model of Lloyd Loar, in the early 1920s, for the Gibson company in the US.
This kind of build, introduced by the Great American luthier, somewhat reconciles the traditional guitar type luthiery with the one of the violin makers :

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