Mandolins
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Holst Custom Stringed Instruments
Builder of carved top mandolins built with each customer's design input to ensure each order is unique and special and reflects both the customer and builder.Website: Holst Custom Stringed Instruments -
Andersen Stringed Instruments
Manufacturer of A-Style Mandolins, Mandolas and Mandocellos as well as F-Style Mandolin Prototypes. Offered Mandolins are available with f-holes for a Bluegrass sound, or oval soundhole for a warmer, more "old-timey" sound. Standard features include Ivoroid binding on body and neck and an arched fretboard.Website: Andersen Stringed Instruments -
Arches Musical Instrument Co.
Two-man Utah-based manufacturer of Flat-Top and Arch-Top Mandolins. Website has mp3 Sound Clips of each available Mandolin. Image Galleries on the site include pictures of Back and Side Wood Options in addition to finished A-Style and F-Style Archtop Mandolins and Flattop Octave Mandolins.Website: Arches Musical Instrument Co. -
Bacorn Custom Guitars and Mandolins
Offering six standard Mandolins, including 5-String and 8-String "Les Paul" Style Electric Mandolins. Other Mandolins include the Alright, a reproduction on the early "Gibson Alrite" mandolin with scalloped X bracing, and a reproduction of the "Loar Era" K-5 Mandocello with a spruce top and paralell bracing. Website offers Players' Feedback on all lines of guitars and mandolins.Website: Bacorn Custom Guitars and Mandolins -
Benjamin R. Wilcox
One-man shop located in Ohio that manufactures five unique Mandolin styles. Website offers galleries of each Mandolin, as well as real-time customization with pricing and 360° views. Also available are mp3 Sound Clips of professional players using BRW Instruments.Website: Benjamin R. Wilcox -
Bertoncini Guitars
Dave Bertoncini builds a variety of stringed instruments by hand, including F5 type mandolins.Website: Bertoncini Guitars -
Bluet Brothers
Bluet Brothers offers custom crafted mandolins. They can create any style mandolin, including F5, F4, Florentine, mandolas, and mandocellos. The undercut fingerboard extension is available as an option on all the handcrafted mandolins.Website: Bluet Brothers -
Brentrup Mandolines
Johann D. Brentrup handcrafts mandolins using Engelmann, West Virginia Red, German, and Italian spruces, and maples ranging from well-flamed to finest old tonewood. He offers six models, including Model 21, Brentrup's rendition of the "A" style mandolin. The standard models are bound in tortoise shell celluloid, resulting in a beautifully understated instrument. Ivoroid binding is an option for a strictly traditional mandolin. The website includes a sound samples page with demos of five mandolins.Website: Brentrup Mandolines -
Brunkalla Fine Stringed Instruments
Martin F. Brunkalla builds a variety of stringed instruments, including F-style mandolins. They are offered either with Price tailpieces and Waverly tuning machines or with formed tailpieces and Schaller machines.Website: Brunkalla Fine Stringed Instruments -
Bryan England
Bryan England offers ten different models of mandolins with a variety of add-on features, including ebony bridges and mother of pearl inlays.Website: Bryan England -
Clark Fine Handcrafted Instruments
Clark Mandolins are handmade by Austin Clark and are crafted to the buyer's specifications. He builds F style, 2-point, and A style mandolins using the color, hardware, and wood to fit the playing style and personal style of the owner.Website: Clark Fine Handcrafted Instruments -
Cohen Musical Instruments
Cohen Musical Instruments builds several models of mandolins. Buyers can choose from A Models, C# Models, F Models, Two Points, and Oval Models with the options of and oval soundhole or C holes and either 13.875" or 13.125" scale lengths.Website: Cohen Musical Instruments -
Cole Mandolins
Cole Mandolins are custom built and hand crafted in the traditional style that suits the bluegrass sound. The F5's and A's both come standard with mother-of-pearl and abalone inlays, solid spruce tops, curly maple backs, sides, and necks, ebony fingerboards, peghead overlays, and bridges, sunburst or custom color finishes, ivory bindings, gold hardware, and mother-of-pearl or bone nuts.Website: Cole Mandolins -
Collings Guitars
The Collings MF mandolin is crafted with a select spruce top and maple back and sides. It has an adjustable ebony bridge, matte finish, and tortoise bindings. It has a scale length of 13 7/8" and a depth of 1 13/16".Website: Collings Guitars -
Corrado Giacomel
Corrado Giacomel mandolins come in four models, each featuring curly maple backs, necks, and rims, ebony fretboards and bridges, and spruce tops. Buyers can choose between J5, J3, F5, and J3L style mandolins.Website: Corrado Giacomel -
Crafters of Tennessee
Crafters of Tennessee mandolins come in two series: the TN F5 and the TN A5. Both the TN F5 and the TN A5 feature a select red spruce top, spruce tone bars, figured maple back, curly maple sides, ebony fingerboard, and genuine pearl nut. The TN F5 has gold plated hardware while the A5 has nickel-plated hardware.Website: Crafters of Tennessee -
Dart Instruments
Dart Mandolins are hand built by David Dart. His models include the f-5 which has a spruce top, maple back, sides, neck, and head, ebony fretboard, sunburst finsih, and f sound holes, the A5 which features triple later binding on the bdoy, fingerboard, and peghead, ebony overlay on the front and back of the head, and 22 frets, and the F-4 which has an oval sound hole, flamed maple back, sides, neck, and head, spruce top, ebony fretboard, and sunburst finish.Website: Dart Instruments -
Davis Mandolins
Buddy Davis designs and handcrafts mandolins for serious musicians. His instruments are all unique and crafted to suit the individual style of their players.Website: Davis Mandolins -
Dearstone Mandolin Works
Dearstone Mandolin Works builds a wide variety of mandolins. They offer flamed maple, figured maple, maple, spruce, red spruce tops, backs, and sides. Models include the F-1V, F-1L, F-5LC, F-5M, F-5AV, H-5M, A-5E, F-5E, A-5M, F-5MV, A-1M, D-1A, D-1M, and the Shawn Lane model.Website: Dearstone Mandolin Works -
Devil's Dream Mandolins
Devil's Dream offers the Bluegrass Special and the Devil's Dream mandolins. The Bluegrass Special features a spruce top and quilted maple back and sides with alternating ebony and maple top binding and shellac based spirit varnish finish. It is also available with ivoroid binding and flamed maple. The Devil's Dream features violin-style f-holes and is made with a spruce top and quilted maple back and sides. It is also available with ivoroid binding and flamed maple.Website: Devil's Dream Mandolins -
Eastman Mandolins
The Eastman Mandolins 500, 600, 800, and 900 Series all feature spirit-varnish finish and a rich lacquer finish. The 500 Series has a maple neck, ebony fingerboard, and nickel plated fittings. The 600 series is handcrafted with a solid flamed maple back and sides with an aged spruce top. The 800 series is similar to the 600 series but has gold or nickel plated hardware, highly flamed maple back and sides, and 3 ply binding on the headstock, body, and sides. The 900 series features highly flamed maple, gold plated hardware, multi-ply maple wood binding on the headstock and body, and is available in a blonde finish.Website: Eastman Mandolins -
Elkhorn Mandolins
Elkhorn mandolins are handcrafted by Robb L. Brophy. These unique instruments are built in the F-5 or A-5 style with koa, sitka spruce, and maple woods. They are finished with a hand rubbed varnish, satin lacquer, or high gloss.Website: Elkhorn Mandolins -
Ellis Mandolins
Ellis Mandolins specializes in F-5 models. Their instruments feature Adirondack red spruce tops, high figured red maple, sugar maple, or bigleaf quilted maple backs, figured sugar maple necks, white, black, or grained Ivoroid on the top and back bindings, and a traditional subrst with hand rubbed oil varnish finish.Website: Ellis Mandolins -
Evergreen Mountain Instruments
Evergreen Mountain Instruments builds their mandolins in the A style, F hole model. These instruments feature bonenuts, ebony bridges, wood bindings, hand rubbed violin varnish finishes, high curl bigleaf maple backs and sides, Englemann spruce tops, high curl bigleaf maple necks, ebony fingerboards, and curl maple with ebony purfling bindings.Website: Evergreen Mountain Instruments -
Fletcher Brock Stringed Instruments
Fletcher Brock Stringed Instruments builds F5 and A style mandolins. For these instruments, Engelmann spruce is typically used for the top wood with red or sitka spruce tone bars. The backs and sides are typically curly eastern Red maple but western Big Leaf and eastern Sugar maple are options. Necks are eastern Sugar maple with radiused ebony fingerboards. Color schemes range from blond to sunburst with a French Polished spirit varnish finish.Website: Fletcher Brock Stringed Instruments