F-Style Mandolins
Our F-Style Mandolins are inspired by the traditional Gibson Loar era designs from the mid-1920s and are available in both F-hole and oval hole versions. Each model incorporates innovative engineering advances like a Tension Compensated Fret Scale to eliminate any sharpness of fretted notes higher up the neck, regardless of action height.
Please visit our Custom Instruments page for additional options and then feel free to contact us to discuss your perfect mandolin!
- Select, solid Alaskan Sitka spruce top
- Premium figured maple back, sides, and neck
- Adjustable truss rod reinforced neck
- Tuned tone bar bracing
- Tension compensated fret scale 13.960 (standard), 13.861or traditional 13.875.
- 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
- Nickel plated, James tailpiece engraved “Lewandowski”
- Nickel plated, Rubner F-style tuners
- Adjustable Ebony bridge
- Bone nut, 1 1/8” width
- Tobacco brown sunburst
- Spirit varnish, French polish finish top only
- UV curable finish for rim, back, and head stock
BASE PRICED FROM $6,000
- Soundboard woods – Bearclaw figure spruce, Engelmann or Red spruce, Redwood or Cedar
- Sound hole shapes – S holes, bound sound holes
- Back & Rim woods – downgrade to non-figured maple (cost reduction)
- Neck, Fretboard, Bridge woods – Rosewood, Ebony. Wide\Narrow Nut or neck widths and custom profiles
- Truss rod – Carbon fiber D-shape truss rod
- 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 – 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
- Pickups – K & K Mandolin twin piezo pickup installed
Please contact us for more information and pricing
Joshua Mastel Playing on a new Lewandowski \ Cedar Mountain Mandolin F5 in our shop
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