Archtop Octave Mandolins
The octave mandolin is a fretted string instrument with four pairs of strings tuned in fifths, G, D, A, E (low to high), tuned an octave below a mandolin. It is larger than the mandola, but smaller than the mandocello and its construction is like other instruments in the mandolin family.
Our Archtop Octave Mandolins are inspired by the L5 Archtop guitar style body of the early 1920’s. Each Octave Mandolin has a 14″ lower bout, 21.78″ scale length and produces a very powerful, resonant tone.
If you are interested in online Octave mandolin lessons, contact Don Julin of Mandolins Heal the World – https://www.mandolinshealtheworld.com/
- Select, solid Alaskan Sitka spruce carved\graduated archtop
- Premium figured maple carved\graduated arch back, sides, and neck
- Adjustable truss rod with carbon fiber reinforced neck
- Tuned tone bar bracing
- Tension compensated fret scale, 21.788”.
- Ebony compound radius fingerboard with mother of pearl dot inlays
- Ebony headstock veneer with mother of pearl inlays: “Lewandowski”
- Celluloid binding on body, neck, and peg head
- White\Black\White\Black
- CMM custom Ebony\Nickel plated, Trapeze tailpiece
- Nickel plated, Rubner A-style “4 to a Plate” tuners w/Ebony knobs
- Adjustable Ebony bridge
- Bone nut, 1 5/16” width
- Tobacco brown sunburst
- Spirit varnish, French polish finish top only
- UV curable finish for rim, back, and head stock
- Pickups – K & K Mandolin twin piezo pickup installed
BASE PRICED FROM $5,800
- Soundboard woods - Engelmann or Red spruce, Redwood or Cedar
- Sound hole shapes – S holes, bound sound holes
- Back & Rim woods – downgrade to non-figured maple
- Neck, Fretboard, Bridge woods – Rosewood, Ebony, additional species. Wide\Narrow Nut or neck widths and custom profiles. Flat or Compound radius fretboard
- Fretwire – Nickel-silver or EVO gold, various dimensions
- Headstock veneers – Front wood type: Ebony, Rosewood, or special request. Backside: none, ebonized fiberboard, or special request
- Binding – Ivoroid, Tortoise, No binding, Various combinations of colors and line orientation
- Inlays – “Lewandowski”, MOP, gold MOP, Abalone or alternate species of shell, design complexity is up to you
- Tuners – Waverly, Alessi, Rubner, Schaller, Gotoh
- Pickguard – various shapes & materials
- Tailpiece – non-trapeze tailpiece, James type mandolin, Nickel, silver or gold, custom engraved or plain; Traditional stamped tailpiece, various plating
- Finish– various colors, sunburst styles, and solid color options. Spirit varnish only option
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