Completed in May 2026, another custom V style 2 point mandola, featuring:

Englemmen spruce top, 2 piece figured maple back, sides and neck

  • Rubner tuners
  • 1 1/4″  bone nut
  • Shop made ebony adjustable bridge/saddle
  • Adjustable truss rod and 3 piece laminate neck construction
  • Soft “V” neck profile
  • 12″ Radiused, ebony fingerboard with 5mm MOP dots and 2mm side markers
  • Bill James solid cast and engraved tailpiece

“Hi Don. Picked up the mandola this morning. It’s beautiful and the tone is incredible, sonorous, complex, and crazy sustain. I love it!”   Paul Benson, ownder