10 string

 

 

Gallery

 

Here’s a 10 string – large body bouzouki. The case is by Keith Calton

 

Mandola1

 

  This is a short Mandola, scale length is 465mm, 18.3 inches. European Spruce top, Indian Roswood back and sides. Tuning was DAEA
 

Mandola2

 

  The Mandola front....
 

Mandola3

 

  ...and the back
 

DR1

 

  Dominique Riviere with his Large Body Bouzouki
 

KN1

 

  Standard 8 string Bouzouki. This instrument has a dual p/u system. A standard Headway under saddle pickup and a Fishman passive single coil p/u going through a second, but modified Headway preamp. Both preamps were balanced to work together or independently through the same output.
 

12 string

 

  A 12 string Cittern
 

AB1

 

  Alan Buckley with his Guitar/Cittern or is that Cittern/Guitar
 

RA1

 

 

This is a 10 string Cittern SL 580mm tuning ADADA complete with Calton case

 

LBB1

 

  Here’s a Large Body Bouzouki – just finished and about to be shipped to Poland
 

Rosette

 

  A rather blurred phot of the rosette
  Tailpiece   This is how I do the tailpiece – solid brass, a simple design for ball end strings which works very well.