It works just as well with org or com - thanks john.It's amazing what you can find up there. And thanks to everyone on this refreshingly unnameable-free thread.

The thing that's puzzling me at present is how to get round the problem that the walls of the mandolin aren't an even height all round - they range from about an inch and a half at the fingerboard end to three inches, and not a straight line either. Very elegant, but tricky. I've got about three ideas for getting round that...But I'm not sure they are good ones.

Vinegar...hot hide glue...it's as well the shed I'm planning to do it in is well away from the house, my wife has a much more sensitive nose than I have.