No frills, just a hand-carved, fully graduated spruce top and a hand-carved maple back for optimal tone.
The hand-carved LM-520 F-model mandolin is the response to players' requests for a value priced mandolin with more stripped down appointments yet a similar sound to the best-selling Loar LM-600 mandolin.
The 520 is carefully assembled in the same hand-carved workshop that gave birth to the LM-400 and 700, and have similar hand-carved, fully graduated spruce tops. The solid maple back of each instrument is also hand carved, and the solid maple sides complete the package. The maple neck has a comfortable rounded V profile finished with a rosewood fretboard. The compensated adjustable ebony bridge and high quality vintage-style Grover tuning machines insure that these mandolins have great intonation and stay in tune no matter how hard they are played.
Perfect for players who want a high-quality, great-sounding hand-carved mandolin but don't need all of the bells and whistles, these minimally appointed instruments deliver the high-end tone, chop and projection the music community has come to expect from The Loar. Case sold separately.
The 520 is carefully assembled in the same hand-carved workshop that gave birth to the LM-400 and 700, and have similar hand-carved, fully graduated spruce tops. The solid maple back of each instrument is also hand carved, and the solid maple sides complete the package. The maple neck has a comfortable rounded V profile finished with a rosewood fretboard. The compensated adjustable ebony bridge and high quality vintage-style Grover tuning machines insure that these mandolins have great intonation and stay in tune no matter how hard they are played.
Perfect for players who want a high-quality, great-sounding hand-carved mandolin but don't need all of the bells and whistles, these minimally appointed instruments deliver the high-end tone, chop and projection the music community has come to expect from The Loar. Case sold separately.
Features
- Top: Solid Hand-carved, fully graduated spruce
- Back & Sides: Solid hand-carved, fully graduated maple back, solid maple sides
- Neck: Maple with rounded "V" profile
- Fretboard: Bound rosewood
- Headstock Inlay: M.O.P. Logo
- Finish Type: Gloss
- Finish Options: Vintage Sunburst
- Tuning Machines: Grover with Pearloid Buttons
- Scale Length: 13-3/4 in.
- Truss Rod: Adjustable
- Frets: 29
- Binding: Ivoroid
- Nut and saddle: Bone
- Bridge: Compensated adjustable ebony
- Upper Bout: 6-3/4 in.
- Lower Bout: 10 in.
- Nut, Width: Bone, 1-1/8 in.
- Depth: 2-1/2 in.
- Body Length: 12-3/4 in.
- Total Length: 27-1/4 in.
- Case sold separately