Home project! Make your own Well Tempered style Simplex arm with a carbon fiber wand thru whole golf ball or or Amadeus-style arm with wand thru cap on top of half golf ball. Considered medium mass and handles a slew of different cartridges - add silicon fluid to the pot to control damping as needed. I made mine by hand and 3d printed a good many of the parts with a FlashForge Finder using PLA+ HatchBox filament. I cut brass rod, delrin rod, bent aluminum cut from a thin sheet for finger lift, etc. I made a 9" for my Braun PCS5 idler and a 10.75" for my Neat Shield MO-19 idler. Wires exit out the rear of the base... no drilling the plinth.
low mass tone arm suggestion sub $1k used
I’m adding another tone arm to my Garrard table. looking for a low mass arm 9" or 10", preferably with out the wires going through the bottom of the arm mount but not critical. I’d like to spend less then $1k used (I may stretch that for a quality used-new arm if a great deal lets say max $2k). This is not for supper critical listening I just want a low mass option for random low mass carts, I may run my older VDH MC 10 on it for example. I have a 12" Jelco 750L as my main arm but I don’t think the Jelco arms are particularly light enough for the low mass carts out there. So any suggestions used or new for that matter would be appreciated.