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"Building the American Mandolin", Hans Brentrup's step by step unorthodox method of building the F5 mandolin is available. With 48 photos, all the important aspects of building are covered, detailed graduations are given from his 25 years of building this instrument. As in the guitar book, it is a spiral bound booklet that lays flat on your workbench. The booklet is written for folks that have some background in building the instrument... Johann (Hans) Brentrup has been a woodworker all his life and a guitar and mandolin maker since the 1970's. In the 1990's he began building mandolins exclusively and has built over 250 mandolins and mandolas, earning the reputation of being one of the finest mandolin builders in the United States.