Classic Tone!!
Price: $9499.95
Stunning handcrafted F-5 mandolin from Jamie Wiens out of British Columbia. This exceptional example, s/n 34 is a fine Loar copy. It features top shelf woods and appointments combined with immaculate fit and finish work, excellent playability and a delightful voice.
Adirondack Spruce top, highly figured Sugar Maple back/sides/neck in a cremona burst varnish finish, 3-ply bindings throughout, flat Ebony fretboard with EVO frets, 1-1/8″ pearl nut width, parallel tone bars, nickel hardware includes; engraved tailpiece and Waverly tuning gears with pearl buttons. Elegant Fern headstock inlay.
Amazing sound. Classic Loar like tone, woody, rich and warm. Powerful mid-range, particularly the D string. The soundboard is very tight grained Adirondack, but this mandolin has mot been sitting around for the last 13 years. She’s been busy and the soundboard has opened up quite nicely. Excellent bluegrass chop.
Excellent-minus to excellent cosmetic condition. Top has multiple small scratches. Just playwear and pick marks. Headstock shows string scratches and marks from clip-on and such. Nothing significant. Re-fretted with EVO and set up by Danny Roberts.
Includes a Hoffee shell case. Trades gladly considered.
