SOLD

Offered for sale is this newly completed flat-top mandolin. Its design is best summed up by the Japanese word Shibui.

This mandolin has a simple elegance which depends only on its form and its materials rather than any unnecessary embellishment: everything you see is pure mandolin.

Please note that this instrument has been made without the use of any tropical/rainforest hardwoods or animal derived products.

What does it sound like? Please watch the YouTube video for a full-description and demonstration of this mandolin.

Features include:

Western Red Cedar soundboard with bound sound hole

English Walnut back and sides with black binding

Maple neck with carbon-fibre reinforcement

30mm width @ nut (Tusq) 360mm scale length

Bog Oak compound radius fretboard, side markers, wide gold evo frets

Mini Gotoh enclosed tuners

Customised Prucha tailpiece

Solid Bog Oak bridge with removable (Tusq) saddle (can be shimmed to raise action)

Open-pore satin finish, hand buffed with microcrystalline wax

Set-up for D'Addario J73 strings (10, 14, 24, 38)

PRICE 985 GBP including Hiscox case (shipping is extra)

Feel free to email me if you have any questions about this instrument.

Thanks for looking, Gary.