Re: Sharing my incredible thrift store find with you fine folk
Looks like the original tailpiece pulled off –– 10 strings exert a lot of "pull" –– and damaged the top/side joint and binding when it did. There may need to be a fair amount of repair to the wood there; make sure you find a mandolin-experienced shop to handle it, if you don't try to do it yourself (which I wouldn't on a valuable vintage instrument).
Gonna be pretty hard to find a vintage 10-string tailpiece. You might consider -- if you can find one -- a 12-string mandriola tailpiece, which would have a couple extra hooks. A shop that does vintage instrument repairs, could have one pulled off an unrepairable instrument.
Allen Hopkins
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