Models

Every model, most significant first.

12 models

  • The Loar LM-520

    Hand-carved F-style mandolin model

    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.

  • Kentucky KM-1000

    Master Model F-style mandolin

    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.

  • Technical line drawing of Eastman MD315

    Eastman MD315

    F-style mandolin

    Mandolin · China

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

  • Recording King RAM-3

    Dirty 30s A-style mandolin

    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.

  • Weber Bitterroot

    Sitka/maple F-style mandolin

    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.

  • The Loar LM-700

    Hand-carved F-style mandolin

    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.

  • Kentucky KM-150

    Solid-wood A-style mandolin

    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.

  • Kentucky KM-950

    Master-grade A-style mandolin

    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.

  • Gibson F-5

    F-style mandolin model

    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.

  • Eastman MD815

    Adirondack/maple F-style mandolin

    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.

  • Technical line drawing of Eastman MD515

    Eastman MD515

    Gloss-finish F-style mandolin

    Mandolin · China

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

  • Collings MT

    A-style mandolin model

    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.