Hi Folks,
I am interested in the best, favorite headstock inlays for mandos? Especially interested in vinatge inlays that are cool but less well know?
Thanks!
Hi Folks,
I am interested in the best, favorite headstock inlays for mandos? Especially interested in vinatge inlays that are cool but less well know?
Thanks!
I always liked the A-3 squiggle, and the long torch and wire.
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Some of the upper line early Epiphone archtops had really nice inlays. Look up the Broadway and Deluxe models.
Mike Kemnitzer (Nugget), Tom Ellis, Andrew Mowry, Steve Gilchrist, Austin Clarke... just a few of the many modern masters of mandolin inlay...
The Michael Kelly Legacy Dragonfly fretboard inlay.
2021 The Loar LM700 VS
That Brentup mandola in the classifieds has some pretty spectacular headstock inlay going on.
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YouTube Original Recording of My composition "Closer Walk"
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The Gibson Torch and Wire (and the Brentrup above are probably my favorite.
There's a thread from 2019 on peghead inlays to scroll through as well.
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Ellis Hummingbird and this Oriole.....
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A bunch of stuff with four strings
Anyone else out there who cares more about how a mandolin plays and sounds than how good the bling is?
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The original post was about mandolin headstock inlays, and I see we’ve wandered into guitar bling. So dare I bring up banjo headstocks? If so, my vote is for William Lange/Paramounts. And if banjo is beyond the boundaries of this discussion, paramount banjo-mandolin inlays were pretty sweet!
2018 Girouard Concert oval A
2015 JP "Whitechapel" tenor banjo
2018 Frank Tate tenor guitar
1969 Martin 00-18
my Youtube channel
Mutually exclusive? Not necessarily. But I certainly wouldn’t buy a mandolin because of it’s ornamentation and, to quite an extent, added bling generally puts me off.
I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the likes of Antoniotsai. His inlay work is impressive but I wouldn’t buy one of his instruments and, I suspect, neither would most serious mandolin players.
The headstock of my 23/4 snakehead is enough for me - it’s screenprinted!
I didn't see a post in this thread where someone said that they'd bought a mandolin because of it's ornamentation, but I'll scroll back and check, maybe I missed that one - I thought this was just a thread about inlays that people liked. Hopefully all the "serious" mandolin players out there aren't judging me too harshly for having inlay of my Beagle on the headstock of my mandolin.
2018 Girouard Concert oval A
2015 JP "Whitechapel" tenor banjo
2018 Frank Tate tenor guitar
1969 Martin 00-18
my Youtube channel
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