custom made 5 string electric mandolin -
I'm an instrument maker and repairer and t his is a custom 5 string electric mandolin I have recently finished in metallic blue, The specs are - Solid swamp ash lightweight body, string through body construction, finished in durable 'sunset orange' satin shimmer custom USA motorcycle paint. Hard rock maple neck with adjustable truss rod finished with vintage tint lacquer. Split shaft vintage tuners (max.056" bottom C). Nickel plated 4 bolt neck plate with serial no. Indian rosewood radiused fingerboard with boxwood dots and side markers Nickel medium vint. frets tortoiseshell pickguard Custom wound alcomax 5 string neck pickup with nickel cover Custom wound alcomax 5 string bridge pickup Custom bridge assembly with one piece adjustable solid brass saddle Side mounted vint. tele style jack 3 way selector, volume and tone control all the parts, including pickups, nickel cover, scaled down bridge and control panel. knobs etc,.. pretty much all except the tuners, are handmade in my workshop in Northamptonshire. Tuning C/G/D/A/E, (so mandolin top 4, mandola bottom 4.) The action is low, intonation pre set adjusted and it sounds great, rings very nicely with great sustain, even if i do say so myself! It takes some considerable time and effort to make these so £585 I believe is cracking good deal for a handmade instrument so highly spec'd but I am open to a resonable offer. If you are interested but would like to try it out first that would certainly be ok. I also have some sound clips available. you can check out my contact details and a bit about me at www.davefarmiloe.com Please supply a contact tel no. for UPS delivery, thanks Delivery costs quoted are for main parts of the UK, please do ask about shipping costs if you are in the USA, Ireland or somewhere else remote, thanks