The Loar LM-500 Contemporary F-Style Mandolin

All of our instruments ship fully set-up and ready to play!

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 LM-400 and 700, 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 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 mandolin players have come to expect from The Loar.  
 

• TOP: SOLID HAND-CARVED, FULLY GRADUATED SPRUCE TOP

• BACK & SIDES SOLID HAND-CARVED, FULLY GRADUATED MAPLE BACK, SOLID MAPLE SIDES

• NECK: MAPLE W/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"

• TRUSS ROD: ADJUSTABLE

• FRETS: 29

• BINDING: IVOROID

• BRIDGE: COMPENSATED ADJUSTABLE EBONY

• UPPER BOUT: 6-3/4"

• LOWER BOUT: 10"

• NUT, WIDTH: BONE, 1-1/8"

• DEPTH: 2-1/2"

• BODY LENGTH: 12-3/4"

• TOTAL LENGTH: 27-1/4"