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Mandolins, mandolas, octave mandolins, mandocellos, makers, and related model families.

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  • Eastman MD815

    Mandolin · China

    The Eastman MD815 is an F-style (F-hole) mandolin with a solid Adirondack spruce top and solid highly flamed maple back and sides, an ebony 12-inch-radius fingerboard with pearl dots, gloss finish, Gotoh tuners, and an Eastman cast-aluminum tailpiece.

  • Prucha F5

    Mandolin · Czech Republic

    The Prucha F5 is a carved-body F-style mandolin with edge binding, handcrafted in the Czech Republic by the Prucha workshop. Musicians praise its smooth feel and clean sound. Available in standard, T, and premium configurations, starting at EUR 3,010.

  • Technical line drawing of Collings MF

    Collings MF

    Mandolin · United States

    A Collings satin-finish F-model mandolin with carved spruce top and maple back and sides.

  • Recording King RAM-3

    Mandolin · China

    The Recording King RAM-3 Dirty 30s is an A-style mandolin with a solid spruce top, tone-bar bracing, and maple back and sides, designed as an affordable instrument for songwriters and folk players.

  • Collings MT

    United States

    The Collings MT is the satin-finish A-style mandolin built by Collings in Austin, Texas. It features a carved Engelmann spruce top with figured maple back and sides, a maple neck, ebony fingerboard, and adjustable ebony bridge, delivering a clear, focused tone in a cleanly appointed instrument.

  • The Loar LM-700

    Mandolin · China

    The Loar LM-700 Supreme is a hand-carved F-style mandolin with an AAA spruce top and AAA flamed maple back and sides, a one-piece maple neck, a bound ebony fretboard, and abalone/mother-of-pearl headstock inlay, styled after Golden Age instruments.

  • Breedlove FF Mandolin

    Mandolin · United States

    The Breedlove FF is a US-made F-style mandolin from Breedlove's now-discontinued mandolin line, built with a carved spruce top and maple back and sides; Breedlove produced mandolins from the late 1990s before ending the line.

  • Technical line drawing of Eastman MD315

    Eastman MD315

    Mandolin · China

    An Eastman F-style mandolin with solid spruce top and solid maple back and sides.

  • Technical line drawing of Eastman MD515

    Eastman MD515

    Mandolin · China

    An Eastman F-style mandolin with gloss finish, solid spruce top, and solid maple back and sides.

  • Northfield Big Mon

    Mandolin · China

    The Northfield Big Mon is an F-style F5 mandolin, slightly enlarged from Northfield's standard F5 body with larger f-holes for greater midrange warmth, bass, and volume. It is built with an Adirondack red or Engelmann spruce top and highly figured maple back, sides, and neck, and is one of Northfield's flagship instruments.

  • Kentucky KM-950

    Mandolin · China

    The Kentucky KM-950 Master A-model has a hand-carved and graduated solid spruce top, hand-carved figured maple back, sides, and neck, a compound-radius ebony fingerboard, and a scooped fingerboard extension for aggressive rhythm chopping.

  • The Loar LM-520

    China

    The Loar LM-520 is a hand-carved F-style mandolin with a graduated solid spruce top and solid maple back, sides, and neck. It carries violin-style f-holes, an adjustable ebony bridge, and vintage Grover tuners, offering classic 1920s F-model tone and appointments at an accessible price.

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Makers

  • Collings Guitars

    Collings Guitars is a United States boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

  • Girouard Mandolins

    Girouard Mandolins is a boutique workshop at Sunny Acres Farm in Glocester, Rhode Island, building high-end carved oval-hole and f-hole mandolins prized for their three-dimensional, sustaining voice.

  • Recording King

    Recording King is an American instrument brand reviving a historic Montgomery Ward name, known for affordable bluegrass and old-time banjos built around Mastertone-style tone rings and flanges, alongside guitars and resonator instruments.

  • Breedlove Guitars

    Breedlove is an American acoustic guitar maker founded in Oregon in 1990, known for distinctive body and bridge shapes and a focus on sustainable tonewoods.

  • Gibson

    Gibson is an American guitar manufacturer founded in 1902 and based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is known for archtop, hollow-body, and solid-body electric guitars such as the Les Paul, SG, and ES-335, as well as acoustic flat-tops.

  • Northfield Mandolins

    Northfield Mandolins is a mandolin-focused instrument company with A-style, F-style, octave, electric, and artist-oriented mandolin lines.

  • The Loar

    The Loar is a fretted-instrument brand from distributor The Music Link, named for Gibson acoustic engineer Lloyd Loar. It offers hand-carved F-style and A-style mandolins, archtop and small-body acoustic guitars, and resonator instruments inspired by 1920s and 1930s designs, built in a workshop the company operates in China.

  • Eastman Guitars

    Eastman is a maker of handcrafted acoustic and archtop guitars known for traditional, hand-carved construction at relatively accessible prices.

  • Kentucky Mandolins

    Kentucky Mandolins is a Saga Musical Instruments mandolin brand with A-style and F-style mandolin-family instruments.

  • Weber Mandolins

    Weber Mandolins is an Oregon mandolin-family maker with A-style, F-style, octave mandolin, mandola, and mandocello lines.

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