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Mandolins · Models
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.
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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.
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Collings MF
Mandolin · United States
A Collings satin-finish F-model mandolin with carved spruce top and maple back and sides.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eastman MD315
Mandolin · China
An Eastman F-style mandolin with solid spruce top and solid maple back and sides.
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Eastman MD515
Mandolin · China
An Eastman F-style mandolin with gloss finish, solid spruce top, and solid maple back and sides.
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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.
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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.
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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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Gibson F-5
United States
The Gibson F-5 is the archetypal F-style mandolin, introduced in 1922 and refined under acoustic engineer Lloyd Loar. It pairs a carved solid spruce top with figured maple back and sides, violin-style f-holes, a longer neck with fifteen frets clear of the body, and the scrolled body that became the reference design for bluegrass mandolins.
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Northfield S Series
Mandolin · China
The S Series is the accessible entry in the Northfield mandolin line, available in oval-hole (NFS-F2, with lateral bracing) and F-hole (NFS-F5, with tonebar bracing) configurations. Built with a spruce top, figured maple back, sides, and neck, and an ebony fingerboard and bridge, finished in matte nitrocellulose lacquer. Materials are sourced from North America and matched in Marshall, Michigan; assembly and finishing are completed in Qingdao. Priced at USD 3,995.
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Weber Yellowstone F14-F
Mandolin · United States
A Weber Yellowstone Series F-style mandolin made in Bend, Oregon.
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Kentucky KM-150
Mandolin · China
The Kentucky KM-150 is an all-solid A-style mandolin with a hand-carved and graduated solid German spruce top and solid Alpine maple back and sides, built to period-correct vintage specifications at an entry price.
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Northfield Calhoun
Mandolin · China
The Northfield Calhoun is an F-style F5 mandolin from Northfield, offered as a more accessible entry into the maker's F5 line with a spruce top and figured maple back and sides.
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Girouard Concert A5
Mandolin · United States
The Girouard Concert A5 is a hand-built oval-hole A-body mandolin from the Girouard workshop in Rhode Island, noted for a wide-open, three-dimensional voice with rich sustain, warm bass, and sweet treble.
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Kentucky KM-1000
China
The Kentucky KM-1000 is Kentucky's Master Model F-style mandolin, introduced in the late 1970s to revive classic 1920s tone and appointments. It features a carved solid Adirondack spruce top, flamed maple back, sides, and neck, an ebony fingerboard with 29-fret extension, and engraved silver-plated hardware in a 1920s sunburst finish.
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Weber Bitterroot
Mandolin · United States
The Weber Bitterroot is a traditional F-style mandolin with f-holes, a hand-graduated solid Sitka spruce top with tone-bar bracing, a maple neck, an ebony fingerboard, ivoroid binding, a 14-inch scale, and a cast Weber tailpiece.