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Beautiful traditional and contemporary stringed instruments hand-crafted

in the Scottish Borders

Gallery

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Side view, octave mandola, Ref. GL11                  Custom-made Selmer-style ukulele

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‘Kelso’ guitar, Ref. GL13K1                 Back, Doughboy mandolin, Ref. GL15DB

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Headstock, Selmer-style guitar, Ref. MM03SG      Parlour guitar (00 model), Ref. GL12p1

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Detail, 5-string fiddle, Ref. GL07                            Top, 'Doughboy' mandolin, Ref. GD01DB

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End-pin inlay, 5-string fiddle, Ref. GL07                 Bull's-horn scroll, prior to peg dressing. 5-String fiddle, Ref. GL07

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Inlaid back, bouzouki, Ref. GL06                           Detail, bouzouki, Ref. GL06

 

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End-pin inlay, folk fiddle, Ref. GL05                       Headstock, bouzouki, Ref. GL06

 

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Back of cittern, Ref. GL03                                      Modern kit fiddle, detail, Ref. GL04

 

The instruments shown below are some of those made by Mark pre-Small Strings —

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