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Very pretty

It's an Arrow custom four-string mandola made by Paul Lestock.

Beautiful work!

Nice work!

Bravo! Looks great!

Timelapse of building the body of a Brescian/Cremonese mandolin:
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Marty Jacobson is a whiz at CNC and can possibly help you design a ten string tailpiece.

Bent piece of brass with decorative wood over the top:

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The pins are just to hide the holes as the ball end strings go into "T" shaped slots in the underlying brass.

Can you provide a picture of those “ handmade brass ones you see on Irish and UK instruments”. Maybe someone here makes similar tailpieces.

Mandolino Napoletana. Tiger Myrtle and Rose Myrtle bowl, spruce top, NG Rosewood neck, Gidgee fingerboard and armrest. I think the mold is mostly accurate now, it could loose 5mm from the width but...

Really low tech answer: Ask for their e-mail address and send it in an e-mail.

I have two custom 10 string instrument's - a 17" A4 mandola and 25" F4 mandocello. Both have this Allen tailpiece. For some inexplicable reason you want "other than Allen"? Cost? Nothing is cheap...

I think this may be your best bet: http://www.allenguitar.com/tpcs_mr-10.htm

oops! I just re-read your post: “other than an Allen”. Is there something wrong with the Allen?

there used to be...

There are super cheap ones like these: https://www.browndogbanjos.co.uk/ashbury-cittern-10-string-tailpiece-brass--3-screws-fix-5264-p.asp

and these:...

Very nice David! I love the look of that style of Selmer and really want to do a 'dola version.

Another classic! Love that binding.

Very nice, thanks for posting. I like that renaissance look.

German style Mandolin. QLD Blackwood and Yellow Walnut bowl, old Sitka Spruce top, Fijian Mahogany neck, Gidgee bits and pieces. Again based on Alfred Woll’s excellent book. Just strung up so it...

I forgot to post some "finished" photos, so here we go:

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Sorry about the fuzzy photos, I knew my camera needed replacing, but didn't realise how much!

Here are some pictures of an Embergher model 5 I recently completed in Queensland Blackwood. The curl in the grain is more broken than in maple, so it was hard to get the same continuity of pattern...

Some interest in bowlback mandolins recently. I might as well post the one I have, as I have not seen "inside" views quite like this, anywhere else. I hope you find them entertaining.

This is the...

Thanks, David.

You know, I went back to look again on your photos and I realized what threw my eye off...being only single strung, there is a tad more distance between the edge of the fretboard...

Beautiful work, David. A pleasure to the eye and I'm certain to the ear.

I am an architect and a furniture and industrial designer, though not an instrument designer.

The task of designing...

A fine creation, David. Very elegant design and timber choices. The geared violin tuning pegs are such a good idea too.

Nice work Gary. Nice work David.