Shop Gallery
Welcome to the Apitius Mandolins shop, located in the historic Alton Mill.
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1. The Alton
Mill


 
2. The Climate Room


3. Bandsawing
Side Stock


4. Thickness
Sander


 
5. Gluing Up
Top Plate

 
6. Truing the
Bottom Face


7. Rough
Plates

 


8. Drilling Gauge Holes

 


9. Cutting
F-Holes

 


10. Blue Chalk for
Tone Bar Fitting

 


11. Fitting the
Tone Bar

 


12. Finished
Tone Bars

 


13. Bending
Sides

 


14. Gluing
Kerfed Lining

 


15. Rim
Assembly

 


16. Measuring
Tap Tones

 


17. Gluing
Top Plate

 


18. Fitting
Dovetail

 


19. Sawing
Pearl Inlays

 


20. Scraping
Binding

 


21. Routing
Binding Rabbet

 


22. Binding
Rabbet

 


23. Gluing
Binding

 


24. Becky Smith Drops By

 


25. Binding
Fingerboard


26. Gluing
Fingerboard

 


27. Colour
Samples

 


28. Applying
Sunburst

 


29. Sunburst Progresses

 


30. Oiling
Fingerboard