#290 custom F-5

by | Jun 23, 2023 | F5-Style, Mandolin, Recent Mandolins

This one completed in June of 2023, a blond F-5. It features: Red maple figured sides and back Englemenn spruce top with tone bars fully bound in Ivoroid Rubner tuners 1 3/16″″ width bone nut Shop made ebony adjustable bridge/saddle Adjustable truss rod and 3...

#286 V style oval hole

by | Jun 23, 2023 | A - Oval Hole, Mandolin, Recent Mandolins

Just completed in March of 2023, another V style oval hole, this one with natural color tones. It also features: “V” style construction, plates overhanging the sides with inlaid violin perfling top and back Artist grade Englemenn spruce top, X braced Rubner tuners 1...

#289 short scale octave, oval hole

by | Jun 7, 2023 | Octave, Recent Mandolins

  This custom build was completed in May, 2023 for a good friend and member of our local, weekly old time/celtic jam. For her, a 19″ scale length is the best of all worlds.. as close as we could come without the transposing involved with a mandola! It does...

#285 oval hole mandola

by | May 6, 2023 | Mandola, Recent Mandolins

This one completed in February 2023, a custom “basic” oval hole mandola, featuring Englemenn spruce top and figured maple back, sides and neck, built for the same customer that ordered mandolin #284. They were built in sequence but delivered to him at the...