Headstocks

**Quavers** · Nov-21-2006, 9:02am

Here's one for you....Setting aside the usual F5-style headstock...which for me is the most beautiful way to end a mandolin...are there any other headstocks (either seen or owned) that match it?

Pics appreciated.

Nov-21-2006, 9:17am

I know my friend Uncle Choppy will insist that I am sick in the head but I really, really like my eastman 505 headstock. Quite unusual.

**Keith Owen** · Nov-21-2006, 9:55am

I like tapered headstocks...snakeheads and their derivatives.

Here's my Newell modified-scroll F with tapered headstock. It's not traditional but I think it is beautiful.

**Keith Owen** · Nov-21-2006, 10:01am

I do not have a good picture of the front of mine, but here is the headstock design that's on it, though mine is ebony. Simple and elegant in my opinion.

**Jim Garber** · Nov-21-2006, 10:08am

Crookneck on my Pandini bowlback.

Jim

**Hans** · Nov-21-2006, 10:57am

My wife's pink ivory Eclipse.

**Keith Owen** · Nov-21-2006, 11:01am

I do like that Eclipse headstock.

**otterly2k** · Nov-21-2006, 11:34am

Not a traditional mando design, but here's the carved headstock from my Brian Dean OM... he does some really unique work...

**SternART** · Nov-21-2006, 12:45pm

Monteleone Grand Artist Delux

**SternART** · Nov-21-2006, 12:48pm

Monteleone Radio Flyer

**SternART** · Nov-21-2006, 12:53pm

Monteleone Grand Artist Delux

**Jonathan Peck** · Nov-21-2006, 12:59pm

I like this oneHeadstock

**F5G WIZ** · Nov-21-2006, 2:42pm

Jgarber: How many channels does that little TV pic up?

Just kidding. Very unique, is it a bowlback?

**Jim Garber** · Nov-21-2006, 3:27pm

Originally Posted by (jgarber @ Nov. 21 2006, 11:08)

Crookneck on my Pandini bowlback.

Jim

Funny, I thought I said bowlback...

I can only view youtube on it.

Jim

**F5G WIZ** · Nov-24-2006, 3:42pm

Sorry guess I should read a little closer. You tube, good one.

**The Old Sarge** · Nov-24-2006, 6:46pm

Originally Posted by (mandomadman @ Nov. 24 2006, 18:23)

I'm trying to post a pic of my headstock. I click the Image button and a box comes up asking for a URL http://

What am I doing wrong?

You are doing nothing wrong. You have to have your picture on a host such as Photobucket or Tinypic. Then you enter the host address and the picture will appear on your message.

**mandomadman** · Nov-24-2006, 6:50pm

Hey, I figured it out !

Kentucky KM-DAWG

**Ted Eschliman** · Nov-24-2006, 7:30pm

Old Wave Jazz Mandola 4-string (in progress)...

**Larry S Sherman** · Nov-24-2006, 7:53pm

This is my Michael Terris. Kinda looks like a traditional F-5 headstock that has had the scrolls knocked off. I really like the design.

Larry

**cooper4205** · Nov-25-2006, 12:07am

here's an unfinished headstock on a parson's mandolin

**Michael Lewis** · Nov-25-2006, 11:33pm

In the POST A PHOTO section there is a thresd about headstocks that is several pages long. There are some realy nice things there.

**jasona** · Nov-25-2006, 11:34pm

..including Michael's awsome Art Deco style headstocks. He's an artist of wood.

**Michael Lewis** · Nov-27-2006, 12:17am

(BLUSH!)

**Uncle Choppy** · Nov-28-2006, 4:08am

Originally Posted by (deputydawg @ Nov. 21 2006, 15:17)

I know my friend Uncle Choppy will insist that I am sick in the head but I really, really like my eastman 505 headstock. Quite unusual.

I insist that Deputy Dawg is sick in the head.

However, I do quite like the non-symmetrical Eastman headstock in this picture of an MD805 (top) from "The Twelfth Fret" website.

Having said that, I dearly wish that Eastman would do a blackface snakehead. I'm pretty sure one of them would make me sound like Andy Statman #