Re: Mandolin Tail Pin
Originally Posted by
Fretbear
Every so often someone will post about a loose "Strap Pin", when what they are more properly referring to is actually a misbegotten VIOLIN style tail pin.
Violins are very well designed. A properly fit tail pin is right up there with one of it's most important design elements. It locates and loads the full string pressure upon itself, using only wood joinery. A loose tail pin can break almost very part of the violin, crack it's tail-block, collapse it's bridge, separate it's sides, or cause a complete catastrophic failure.
To install one in a mandolin, whose design IN NO WAY requires it, is to introduce an unnecessary weakness into modern mandolin design. It must be assumed that it was originally done as some kind of "nod" towards violin construction, but it was a bad idea then, and it's a bad idea now.
Sorry, what is the purpose of this post?
There is nothing wrong with a strap pin(which by the way is a totally correct name for it) and it doesn't weaken the mandolin the least, especially not the screw in type. The violin type needs a bigger hole but if afraid of weakening the mandolin, just glue the pin in.
What relevans has the violin design on a mandolin pin? You just describe a silly design of the violin, which depends on 1 element, that is only fastened by pressing it down and can destroy the whole instrument??!!
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