This was an engraving project for a friends 25' unsigned Loar.

I didn't have a good photo of a Loar tailpiece cover to go by to get the lettering style correct. I called up a man that I knew had one and took a good close up photo of his and copied the lettering and the wriggle cut border exactly like the original.

It was then that I noticed that the wriggle pattern on all the original covers I've seen on Mandolin Cafe' forum have all varied in the way they were cut as far as consistency in the distance between the little zig zags. Some of the lettering of the same style is cut differently also.

I'd rather not have been that faithful to the original but I wanted to re-create it that way so that after it is gold plated, Tom can rub some of the gold off and make it look old and put his original in the safe so it never gets cracked.