An old East German Musima mandolin was converted to electric mandolin to an electric guitarist who wants to test on learning to play mandolin. From the net

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Musima: is a brand name of musical instruments from the former GDR. The brand name is an abbreviation of the manufacturing company, the former VEB-Musima of Markneukirchen. Musima was founded in 1952 as a trust company with 20 employees.
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Funny construction with two thick spruce tiles in a sandwich with a mahogany tile in the middle of the lid and bottom. The pieces have then been carved out with mahogany as a decorative edge as a result. THICK wood in the lid and bottom, probably 7 mm. No higher acoustic, but perfect for avoiding a round in an electric mandolin.

New stand and tuning screws and an Almuse "Moongazer" pickup that can work as either a single coil or as a humbucker. The knobs are replicas of old American electric guitar knobs, big but nice 🙂 The stem had to be shortened on the ends. Milled a carbon fiber rod into the neck, took the extreme radius of the grip board down to 6″ (!) and re-banded. Put around the neck. Had to cut holes in the lid and reinforce the single rib on the inside. The base re-glued and everything coated with cellulose varnish.

It had been fixed with before, some ugly wooden plugs had been inserted at the neck and the lower part of the neck foot was replaced. The best thing was to solder the pickup, got help from Almuse as I did not really grasp the circuit diagram in the first attempt.

Added a cord through the bottom block to the string holder before I closed the store.