Try doing a Google search on Custom metal banjo truss rod covers. You might find more than you'll find if you specify mandolin and they are the same size. I've bought them in pearl but never metal.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Mark - If you want an engraved TRC,buy some sheet 'metal,make your own & then send it to a good engraver to be polished & engraved. There are engravers who would engrave a MOP TRC for you as well as a metal one,so there's more than one option.
I had a TRC made by Bryan England's Custom Inlay guys for a once owned banjo. It was a lovely piece of work. http://www.custominlay.com/home.html It maybe worth while contacting those guys ,
Ivan
PS - I was looking at Bruce Weber's new Montana Lutherie website yesterday & this TRC caught my eye.
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
Neither custom or engraved, I suspect the nickel plated TRC on my 1922 A4,
was to call attention to the introduction of the truss rod being in the necks
where none had been in earlier production years, or lesser models .
like the plain A0 I have, from a similar year..
Any speculation on this ?
..
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
What about having an ebony or some other wood TRC, and having a luthier do an inlay on it? Just a thought....
, Reid
2011 Black A5 (#9) Mandolin
1952 Gibson A-40N Mandolin
1924 Gibson TB-1 Trapdoor Tenor Banjo
1975 Gibson MK-35 Hybrid Braced Dreadnought Guitar
1993 Washburn M3 SW/TS F-Style Mandolin
2004 Martin D-16 GT Dreadnought Guitar
2006 Martin DC-16RGTE AURA Dreadnought Guitar
1997 Seagull S6 Dreadnought Guitar
1970's Kay KB-52 5-String Banjo
1960's Pirles 4-String Tenor Banjo
You can do anything you want!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Reid - That's one of the things that Bryan England's guys do. - https://shop.custominlay.com/Truss-Rod-Covers_c41.htm
If they haven't got 'exactly' what you want,they'll find a way to make it for you,
Ivan
PS - They made the TRC on my Weber. Bruce Weber didn't have a piece of MOP big enough at the time,so he farmed it out to Bryan's guys, & it's immaculate !.
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
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