I thought about posting this in the perpetual guitar thread, but in the end I don't think it fits. I'm a mandolin player, and one problem I've found is that mandolins are just too quiet for a lot of ...

Make a unique homemade instrument by following Wayne Erbsen’s homemade mandolin (or “hamdolin”) instructions using a ham can and inexpensive building materials. Before I explain the particulars on how ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. School is out and the dog days of summers ...