Builder needs to meet 'A' Style tuners?

[Paul Statman]

This looks a little odd to me:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Bruce-Wei-Sol...3D142207919729

[mrmando]

My friend Eleanor faithfully brought her black Gibson snakehead mandolin to mandolin orchestra rehearsals for years. At some point in its life, this instrument had been fitted with F-style tuners. Not only that, they were installed upside down, so the longest shafts sat at the bottom of the headstock, and the gears turned in reverse. Eleanor eventually departed this life, and her son asked me to help sell some of the instruments his parents had left behind. I did sell that snakehead, but you can bet I put vintage A-style tuners on it first.

[MikeEdgerton]

This looks a little odd to me:

That's very kind. It looks a whole lot odd to me

[fentonjames]

the photo of the neck profile...is it twisted?

[Timbofood]

It looks "Wei" beyond me!
Sorry, I will go to my corner.
It's odd looking indeed, don't know much about him but, he's a fairly prolific builder. With the right tuners, the peghead would be pretty. Interesting use of the fern design.

[kkmm]

the photo of the neck profile...is it twisted?

It does look twisted to my eyes.
It's a very nice looking mandolin though, except for the odd F style tuners.
Were these put on by accident or by ignorance ?

[Bill Kammerzell]

Were these put on by accident or by ignorance ?

Or because those were laying around the shop and they didn't care? The possibilities abound.

[Timbofood]

Maybe he took a page from the old Gibson playbook.... had the parts, better use them up!

[Petrus]

On another angle, I've seen A style mandolins with a F style headstock (thinking of a particular Washburn model that has this feature), in which case F style tuners would be appropriate. One could argue about the aesthetics of putting an F style headstock on an A-bodied mandolin though.