F4 Mandolin Peg Head Inlay-page. F4 Mandolin Peg Head Inlay, Full Size.

F4 Mandolin Peg Head
Inlay, Full Size

When I first decided to make these I was confronted with some problems.
First was the fact that of the many pictures we saw of old mandolins, there were no two that were exactly the same. So we found the one we
liked best and decided to use that as our model.
Second Problem is the original ones had silver wire for the “curly things”...I am not in the silver wire business, so we decided to make those of pearl shell also. Anyone who want’s to stay with the original design can just discard
those parts and use silver wire in thier place.

Third, we found that other people had shortened the design in a variety of ways to make room for a name logo on top. The original mandolins
didn’t have the name logo. Some luthiers had the “Flames” shortened until they looked squat to me, others had the torch shortened and still others had both parts shortened.
I really didn’t like any of the shortened ones I saw.
We decided that the best solution was to just reduce the hight of the
full sized inlay by .75” without changing the width.
I liked the way this looked, and that is what our “short” version is.
The “Long” one is like the original.
Another issue is that some mandolins had truss rod covers and some did not. The easy solution is to just discard the section of inlay where
the truss rod will be as the example here shows.

White MOP ====== $45.00
Gold MOP ======= $45.00
Red Abalone ====== $60.00
Paua Abalone ====== $60.00

F4 Mandolin Peg Head Inlay
White MOP ====== $45.00
Gold MOP ======= $45.00
Red Abalone ====== $60.00
Paua Abalone ====== $60.00

“A” Style Truss Rod Covers with F-4 Style Inlay.
Some mandolins have truss rods and some do not. These are designed to
use if you want a truss rod, but don’t want to miss part of the peg
head inlay. They will fit in the space between the inlay spirals.
TRC, White MOP, Inlay Paua Abalone == $20.00
TRC, White MOP, Inlay Gold MOP ====== $20.00
TRC, Black MOP, Inlay White MOP ======= $20.00
TRC, Black MOP, Inlay Gold MOP ========= $20.00
TRC, Black MOP, Inlay Paua Abalone ======= $20.00

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