This week’s mystery 8 string thing, previously pictured but not identified here, is now somewhat apart and in process, the neck repair being necessary.
Internal inspection shows no evidence of top braces, just a sort of thick soundpost behind and to the treble side of the bridge.
The top itself is still flat, no cant, looks like mahogany or another very dark wood.
Anybody seen this species before?
Also, there is no block at the tail. The fretboard is likely from some other mandolin, and the head must have had pegs, not machines.
I’m debating adding a brace.
Ideas?
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