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Below is a listing of our monthly newsletters and a brief description of what's in each issue. Please note that some pictures may have been deleted from the newsletters, links to our website, and prices listed may have changed. |
- 2014 Newsletters
- December 2014
- November 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- Editorial: Marketing: The "Old" way
Featured Products: Straight Up Strings, Heavy and F4 and A5 Kits
Luthier's Tip: Attaching a V-joint
Readers Ask: A 4-string mandolin? - June 2014 - Special Straight Up Strings Launch
- Editorial: Straight Up Strings
Featured Products: String Break Angle Gauge, String Spacing Template, Triangular Needle File - April 2014
- Editorial: What if Shutt was in a Barbershop?
Featured Products: Luthier's Detail Blade, Ebony Fretboard Extender, Fret Cutter and Positioning Hammer
Luthier's Tip: Mastering the Volutes
Readers Ask: Changing guitar bridge pins? - March 2014
- Editorial: Wood Selection
Featured Products: Rim/rib assembly option, Master Grade F4/F5 backboard, Peghole drilling guides
Luthier's Tip: Assembling Ribs
Readers Ask: Lower Note from two vibrating strings - January 2014
- Editorial: Is it Time for You to Come to Camp?
Featured Products: New Ivoroid/Black/Ivoroid Binding (.090" x 1/4" x 56"), Banjo T-shirt (preorder), Master Mandolin reprint
Luthier's Tip: Fitting Tone Bars
Readers Ask: Making Banjo Neck "Faster"
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- 2013 Newsletters
- December 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: What's a Virzi?
Featured Product: Pickin' Magazine Peghead Poster reprint
Luthier's Tip: A Light to Guide Your Way
Readers Ask: Backboard or Soundboard First? - November 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: Lacquer vs. French Polish
Featured Products: Siminoff Binding Routing Tool, Mini Scraper Set (5 per set), Signature F5 Women's T-shirt
Luthier's Tip: Crafting Body Scrolls
Readers Ask: Adirondack Red Spruce? - September 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: A Short Treatise on Truss Rods
Featured Products: Siminoff Go-Bar Deck, Spool Clamp Set, The Physics of Music
Luthier's Tip: Inlaying Rosettes
Readers Ask: Easy String Tip - August 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: Finding Your Starting Note When Tap Tuning
Featured Products: Siminoff Luthier's Shirt, Gold- and Nickel-plated Loar Machines
Luthier's Tip: Elastic Band - Your Binding Best Friend
Readers Ask: Is Titebond II Better? - July 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: Soundboards and What they Do
Featured Products: Nickel- or Gold-Plated Engraved Tailpieces, Nickel- or Gold-Plated Tailpieces, Locating Pins
Luthier's Tip: Aligning and Joining with Locating Pins
Readers Ask: Why Does the Body Have to Be Assembled Before Tap Tuning? - June 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: What Backboards Do...And How They Do It
Featured Products: String Break Angle Gauge, Fret Extraction Tool
Luthier's Tip: Solving Excessive String Break Angle Problems - May 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: Intonation - what's it all about?
Featured Products: Mini Scraper Set (5 per set), Fret End Nipper, Fret Setting Tool
Luthier's Tip: Gauzeing the Easy Way - March 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: The Right "Action"
Featured Products: Siminoff Luthier's Tshirt, Men's (2013), Siminoff Luthier's Tshirt, Youth
Luthier's Tip: Fitting One-Piece Bridges - February 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: String Break Angles
Featured Products: Hardshell A5 mandolin case with strap, Siminoff Luthier's Shirt, Men's
Luthier's Tip: Installing Frets on Fretboard Extenders - January 2013 Newsletter
- Editorial: Sycamore vs. Maple
Featured Products: Abalone Fretboard Position Dots, Tortoise-Shell 15th Fret Crosspiece, Tortoise-Shell Binding
Luthier's Tip: Installing Frets on Fretboard Extenders
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- 2012 Newsletters
- April 2012 Newsletter
- Editorial: A Legend Passes (Earl Scruggs)
Featured Products: Sanding Blocks for Radiused Fretboard, Diamond Sanding/Cutting Sheets, Fret Setting Tool
Luthier's Tip: Getting things tight - February 2012 Newsletter
- Editorial: More on backboards
Featured Products: Reproduction Fretwire, Fish Glue, Notebook from Loar's Class
Luthier's Tip: Easy way to scrap binding - January 2012 Newsletter
- Editorial: The contribution of the backboard
Featured Products: Calibrated Tuning Forks, New Spool Clamps, Template Sets
Luthier's Tip: Inlay Filler and Crack Repair
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- 2010 Newsletters
- December 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: A Word on Bridges
Featured Products: Fret File, Fret Slot Cleaning Tool, Scalloped Fretboards
Luthiers Tip: Strengthening a Neck Connection - October 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: Tap Tuning
Featured Products: Mandolin and Mandola Bridges, Mother of Pearl Buttons, Spool Clamp Set
Luthiers Tip: Keeping out dust and spray - September 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: What's a Virzi?
Featured Products: Virzi Tone Producer, Position Dot Stock Drill Kit, Notebook from Lloyd Loars Class
Luthiers Tip: A light to guide your way - August 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: The A's of Wood Grading
Featured Products: H4 Mandola Kits, Peghole Drilling Guides, String Spacing Template, StroboClip Tuner
Luthiers Tip: Bridge Fitting Made Easy - June 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: Seconds
Featured Products: Luthiers T-Shirts, Luthiers Caps, H4 Mandola ProSeries Drawings
Luthiers Tip: Repairing Ribs - May 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: Gibson bridge designs
Featured Products: H4 Rosette, DTF5, Siminoffs Luthiers Glossary
Luthiers Tip: Save on Wipes - April 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: Inverted machines, worm gears, slippage, and more
Featured Products: Locating Pins, Spool Clamp Set, Fingerrest (Pickguard) Material
Luthiers Tip: Keeping Dust Away - March 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: Intonation - what's it all about?
Featured Products: Tortoise Shell Celluloid Binding, Catalog Reprints
Luthiers Tip: Rosette Clamps - February 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: Why Frets Wear?
Featured Products: Loar Style Machines, Pearl Nuts, Ebony Fretboard Extenders
Luthiers Tip: Binding the End of the Peghead - January 2010 Newsletter
- Editorial: What was Loar hearing?
Featured Products: H5 Mandola Kits, Body Assembly Fixtures, Peghead Templates
Luthiers Tip: Scroll Protector
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- 2009 Newsletters
- November 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: How original was Orville?
Featured Products: DTF5, Notebook from Lloyd Loars, Fingerrest Kit
Luthiers Tip: Filling Binding Seams - October 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: Adirondack Red Spruce and more such confusing names
Featured Products: End Pins, F5 Mandolin Bridges, Fret Setting tool
Luthiers Tip: Binding - September 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: Wood Surprises
Featured Products: Template Sets, binding tape, fret setting tool
Luthiers Tip: Sanding Tone Bars - August 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: Fret Scales
Featured Products: F5/F4 mandolin body scroll peak template, F5/A5 mandolin neck profile template, Virzi Tone Producer
Luthiers Tip: Truss Rod Slot and Pocket - July 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: Loar wasn't a luthier
Featured Products: Neck profiling templates
Luthiers Tip: Removing kerfed lining - June 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: Picking the best glue...
Featured Products: W/B/W Side Stripe Binding, body templates, ebony fretboard extenders
Luthiers Tip: Selecting wood for braces and tone bars - May 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: Siminoff's Luthierie Camp
Featured Products: Loar Style F5 mandolin machines
Luthiers Tip: A minor but important detail - April 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: The language of luthierie
Featured Products: Spool Clamp Set, Single Spool Clamp
Luthiers Tip: Ribs that change shape - March 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: Perception, and how great is great?
Featured Products: Loar Style F5 Case and Cover, Shaped Hardshell F5 Case
Luthiers Tip: Knowing the difference between flamed and curly - February 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: NAMM...
Featured Products: W/B/W Side Stripe Binding, W/B/W Fretboard Binding, Position Dot Drill Set
Luthiers Tip: Pulling a Soundboard or Backboard - January 2009 Newsletter
- Editorial: New shop...
Featured Products: Peterson 490 Manual
Luthiers Tip: Fitting one-piece bridges
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- 2008 Newsletters
- December 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: Changes...
Featured Products: Luthiers Glossary, F4 Machines, F4 Rosette Instrutions
Luthiers Tip: Bending rims with hot air. - November 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: StroboSoft v.2 is Ready!
Featured Products: A1 ProSeries Drawings, H5 Mandola Fretboard Cauls, Fingerrest Kit
Luthiers Tip: Measuring Inside. - October 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: Sometimes it's out of your hands.
Featured Products: Mandola Kits (Levels 1, 2, and 3)
Luthiers Tip: Getting things tight - September 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: Words of our craft.
Featured Products: Body Templates, Peghead Templates, f-hole templates
Luthiers Tip: Gauzing the easy way. - August 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: Update on Tap Tuning
Featured Products: Fretboard Cauls, tap tune hammer, body assembly fixture
Luthiers Tip: Tone Bar Clamps - July 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: Mandola kits?
Featured Products: Modulator Bridge, ebony end pins, fingerrest material
Luthiers Tip: Positioning Tone Bars - June 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: To hide or not to hide
Featured Products: Engraved Tailpieces, Notebook from Lloyd Loars class, Fretboard Caul
Luthiers Tip: Filling Binding Gaps - May 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: Loar-signed Whistle!
Featured Products: Mandola Ribs, DTF5, F5 Body Templates
Luthiers Tip: Fret Dressing File - April 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: What if a Shutt was in the barbershop?
Featured Products: Fret Setting tool, end pins, pearl position dots
Luthiers Tip: Solid Work Surface - March 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: That Elusive woody sound
Featured Products: Position dot stock drill kit, ebony fretboard extenders, mandola block sets
Luthiers Tip: Flush trimming soundboards and backboards - February 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: Tap Tuning Is it necessary?
Featured Products: Mandola Necks, Physics of Music, W/B/W Side Binding
Luthiers Tip: Installing Rosettes - January 2008 Newsletter
- Editorial: String break angle
Featured Products: Tap tuning microphone, one-piece bridge, Virzi Tone Producers
Luthiers Tip: Making your linings fit flush
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- 2007 Newsletters
- December 2007 Newsletter
- Editorial: De-damping what is it about
Featured Products: Nut & Saddle Files, Pearl nuts, mandola body fixtures
Luthiers Tip: Save your ribs! - November 2007 Newsletter
- Editorial: To V or not to V
Featured Products: Fingerrest Kits, Fret Leveling Gauge, Early Style 1-piece bridge
Luthiers Tip: Caring for your Wood - October 2007 Newsletter
- Editorial: To Kit or not to Kit
Featured Products: DTF5, Mandola Bridges, Decorative Buttons
Luthiers Tip: Dust Free Work
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Siminoff Banjo and Mandolin Parts
P.O. Box 2992
Atascadero, California 93423
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