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At 10:40am on December 30, 2008, Roy said…: Hello Steve,
I am a new member of this site. I´m a luthier from México city and I´m glad to be in touch with ya.

At 4:01pm on January 5, 2009, Roy said…: Ok man.... happy new year.
God Bless ya!

At 5:26pm on April 11, 2009, Frank Ford said…: Well, sorry not to have contributed sooner! I guess if I wanted to do a first-class job on that mandolin, I'd consider a variant of fishin's carbon fiber reinforcement. I'd remove the fingerboard and reglue the headstock as cleanly as I could using whatever glue and those little dowels for alignment.

Then, I'd set up and rout or mill as much out of that area as I could for a really solid maple reinforcement right down the middle, hopefully running up the peghead and down the neck about the same distance. A good fitting heavy spline like that (approaching as close as possible to actually breaking through the back side) set in with hide glue should provide terrific strength without being visible when fingerboard and peghead cap are back in place.

At 10:50am on April 18, 2011, Kerry Krishna said…: Nice looking Dove Steve. I just got my '68 back in my shop for brokering/selling, and did a photoessay if you want to see the pics, let me know. Doves sure are showpieces eh? I hardly remember a single show I did with that axe that I did not get a comment afterwards on how pretty it is...

At 1:36pm on March 8, 2012, Eric Steven Johansen said…: Hey Steve, I can be emailed directly at jobro4@aol.com and would be glad to help in any way I can. Thanks, Eric