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PERFORMER F-STYLE MANDOLIN

  • Hand-Carved Solid Spruce Top
  • Hand-Carved Solid Maple Back & Sides
  • Maple Neck with Thin ”V” Profile
  • 1-1/8” Nut Width
  • Available w/ Fishman Pickup (LM-520E-VS)
  • Vintage Sunburst Finish

From The Load website: The hand-carved LM-520 F-model mandolin is our response to players' requests for a great-sounding, high-value mandolin with low key appointments.

The LM-520 is carefully assembled in the same hand-carved workshop that gave birth to the industry-leading LM-700-VS, and has a similar hand-carved, fully graduated spruce top. The solid maple back is also hand-carved, and the solid maple sides complete the all-solid package. The maple neck has a comfortable rounded "V" profile finished with a padauk 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 mandolin players have come to expect from The Loar.


SPECIFICATIONS

Model Number: LM-520-VS

Model Name: Performer F-Style

Top: Hand-Carved Solid Spruce

Back & Sides Hand-Carved Solid Maple

Bracing Pattern: Longitudinal Tone Bars

Neck: Maple

Fretboard: Padauk

Headstock Inlay: None

Finish: Gloss Vintage Sunburst

Tuning Machines: Nickel with Ivory Buttons

Scale Length: 13-29/32"

Truss Rod: Two-way adjustable

Frets: 29

Binding: Ivoroid

Bridge: Ebony, adjustable

Nut, Width: Bone, 1-1/8"

Pickup Model: LM-520E-VS


Pictures may vary slightly from actual product.

Condition
Brand
Model
  • LM-520 Performer F-Style Mandolin
Finish
  • Vintage Sunburst
Categories
Year
  • 2023
Made In
  • China

About the Seller

12th Fret Music

Boise, ID, United States
(560)
Joined Reverb:2017
Items Sold:1,049
Product Overview
The Loar LM-520-VS mandolin is a study in elegant, minimalistic design. A hand-carved F-style (Florentine) mandolin, it’s a high-quality and great-sounding instrument at an affordable price. What makes the Loar LM-520-VS an attractive budget mandolin is a lack of gold hardware and inlays. But if it sounds great, most players won't miss the ornamentation.
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The Loar LM-520 Performer F-Style Mandolin 2023 Vintage Sunburst
The Loar LM-520 Performer F-Style Mandolin 2023 Vintage Sunburst
A$965.86

About This Listing

PERFORMER F-STYLE MANDOLIN

  • Hand-Carved Solid Spruce Top
  • Hand-Carved Solid Maple Back & Sides
  • Maple Neck with Thin ”V” Profile
  • 1-1/8” Nut Width
  • Available w/ Fishman Pickup (LM-520E-VS)
  • Vintage Sunburst Finish

From The Load website: The hand-carved LM-520 F-model mandolin is our response to players' requests for a great-sounding, high-value mandolin with low key appointments.

The LM-520 is carefully assembled in the same hand-carved workshop that gave birth to the industry-leading LM-700-VS, and has a similar hand-carved, fully graduated spruce top. The solid maple back is also hand-carved, and the solid maple sides complete the all-solid package. The maple neck has a comfortable rounded "V" profile finished with a padauk 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 mandolin players have come to expect from The Loar.


SPECIFICATIONS

Model Number: LM-520-VS

Model Name: Performer F-Style

Top: Hand-Carved Solid Spruce

Back & Sides Hand-Carved Solid Maple

Bracing Pattern: Longitudinal Tone Bars

Neck: Maple

Fretboard: Padauk

Headstock Inlay: None

Finish: Gloss Vintage Sunburst

Tuning Machines: Nickel with Ivory Buttons

Scale Length: 13-29/32"

Truss Rod: Two-way adjustable

Frets: 29

Binding: Ivoroid

Bridge: Ebony, adjustable

Nut, Width: Bone, 1-1/8"

Pickup Model: LM-520E-VS


Pictures may vary slightly from actual product.

Condition
Brand
Model
  • LM-520 Performer F-Style Mandolin
Finish
  • Vintage Sunburst
Categories
Year
  • 2023
Made In
  • China

About the Seller

12th Fret Music

Boise, ID, United States
(560)
Joined Reverb:2017
Items Sold:1,049
Product Overview
The Loar LM-520-VS mandolin is a study in elegant, minimalistic design. A hand-carved F-style (Florentine) mandolin, it’s a high-quality and great-sounding instrument at an affordable price. What makes the Loar LM-520-VS an attractive budget mandolin is a lack of gold hardware and inlays. But if it sounds great, most players won't miss the ornamentation.
Shop 4 options from A$965.86
Product Reviews

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