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Beautiful traditional and contemporary stringed instruments hand-crafted

in the Scottish Borders


Instruments sold

The instruments shown below are some of those we have sold as Small Strings.

Additional photos of these instruments are shown on the Gallery page, as well as pictures of a selection of the instruments made by Mark pre-Small Strings.

Kit fiddle (modern design)

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Light sea green

Back and sides: sycamore

Top: spruce

Finger board: ebony

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Bouzouki

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Back and sides: maple

Top: spruce

Neck: sycamore

Finger board: bound ebony

Inlaid back; more photos on the Gallery page

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3 'Doughboy' mandolins

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Back and sides: 2 in figured walnut, 1 in amboyna

Tops: spruce

Finger boards: ebony

Schaller machine heads

Additional photo on the Gallery page

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Prototype kit fiddle

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    Back and sides: sycamore

    Top: spruce

    Finger board: ebony

 

 

 

 

 


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Octave mandola

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Back and sides: walnut

Top: spruce

Neck: mahogany

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Maple and maple & walnut mandolins

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Three mandolins with stainless-steel 'Sun' tailpieces (unfortunately, we are no longer able to source these tailpieces)

Backs and sides:

    maple and walnut; walnut

Tops: spruce

Necks: mahogany

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