Another A-5

[Graham McDonald]

The second of this batch. Englemann soundboard and the back and sides of celery-top pine, a fairly heavy softwood from Tasmania, quite similar to Douglas fir (which is known here as Oregon pine for some reason). The neck is Black-heart sassafras (also from Tasmania) with a rosewood fingerboard and the head overlay from a piece of African blackwood cut from a chunk a friend gave me a few years back. Tortoiseshell celluloid binding, StewMac Golden Age tuners and an Ashton Bailey tailpiece.A bit lighter in sound than the Blackwood bodied mandolin and the Englemann left a little thicker than the really stiff Sitka on the other one.

[lflngpicker]

That's a beauty!

[Mark Wilson]

Nice looking mandolin. The head overlay and the ff hole design are super

[Steve Sorensen]

Nice clean design and execution.

Steve

[Randi Gormley]

I like blondes and that's a beauty!