The Loar LM-520 Performer Series F-Style Mandolin

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This hand-carved F-style mandolin combines a maple body and spruce top to create sweet, resonant tone. It's great for both group jams and solo picking.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
Bound rosewood fretboard Warm rosewood tone; beautiful binding
Ebony bridge Enhanced mass and beauty
Maple back and sides Bright, focused tone with enhanced sustain
Solid hand-carved, hand-graduated spruce top Clear, focused sound with good projection

The hand-carved The Loar LM-520 F-model mandolin is our response to players' requests for a great-sounding, high-value mandolin with low key appointments. The LM-520 is carefully assembled in the same hand-carved workshop that gave birth to the LM-400 and 700, and has a similar hand-carved, fully graduated spruce top. The solid maple back is also hand-carved, and the solid maple sides complete the all-solid package.

The maple neck has a comfortable rounded "V" profile finished with a rosewood fretboard. The compensated adjustable ebony bridge and high quality vintage-style Grover tuning machines insure that these mandolins have great intonation and stay in tune no matter how hard they are played.

Perfect for players who want a high-quality, great-sounding hand-carved mandolin but don't need all of the bells and whistles, these minimally appointed instruments deliver the high-end tone, chop and projection mandolin players have come to expect from The Loar.

Features:

- Solid Hand-Carved, Fully Graduated Spruce Top
- Solid Hand-Carved, Fully Graduated Maple Back, Solid Maple sides
- Maple Neck w/ Rounded "V" Profile
- Scale Length: 13-29/32"
- Bone Nut, 1-1/8" Width
- Compensated Adjustable Ebony Bridge
- Grover Tuning Machines with Pearloid Buttons
- Vintage Sunburst Gloss Finish

- Top: Solid Hand-Carved, Fully Graduated Spruce Top
- Back & Sides: Solid Hand-Carved, Fully Graduated Maple Back, Solid Maple Sides
- Neck: Maple w/Rounded "V" Profile
- Fretboard: Bound Rosewood
- Headstock Inlay: M.O.P. Logo
- Finish Type: Gloss
- Finish Options: Vintage Sunburst
- Tuning Machines: Grover with Pearloid Buttons
- Scale Length: 13-3/4"
- Truss Rod: Adjustable
- Frets: 29
- Binding: Ivoroid
- Bridge: Compensated Adjustable Ebony
- Upper Bout: 6-3/4"
- Lower Bout: 10"
- Nut, Width: Bone, 1-1/8"
- Depth: 2-1/2"
- Body Length: 12-3/4"
- Total Length: 27-1/4"
- Pickup: None
- Item: LM-520-VS

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