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Crafted with premium features like a hand-carved spruce top and thin V profile neck, the Loar LM-310F-BRB Honey Creek F-Style Mandolin offers signature old-world sound from the first strum. Get easy access to the upper frets thanks to the removal of the fretboard extension and play without fear of losing your tuning thanks to Grover tuners

The Eastman MD305 A-Style Mandolin is an elegant option for beginner and veteran mandolin players alike. With a solid spruce top on solid maple back and sides, the MD305 delivers timeless mandolin tone with a player-friendly price point. Pairing its classic A-style body shape with a vintage tinged satin finish, the MD305 looks almost as appealing as it sounds.

Finding as beautiful a mandolin as the Eastman MD315 F-Style is a tall order. Hand-crafted according to “Old World” specifications, and adorned with a classical finish, MD315 is as gorgeous as its sound.

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.

Eastman’s MD515 F-Style Mandolin is, like its MD315 sibling, a study in beauty. Likewise being hand-built according to “Old World” methods, the crafstmanship results in stunning tonal quality and playability.

The Fender FM52E acoustic-electric mandolin puts forth a lively, full-bodied tone thanks to its full-range pickup that'll have you heard easily over the rest of the band. The spruce top and rosewood fingerboard ensure a nice bright sound and great playability, giving this entry-level mando a sound that's equally as impressive as its fit and finish.

The Loar LM-700 is a professional-grade, expertly crafted F-style mandolin carved from premium spruce and maple. The sound is warm and clear with enormous projection, endless sustain and superior dynamics. The LM-700's bone nut and adjustable truss rod and bridge will keep this beautiful mandolin in great playing shape for touring and recording mandolinists who need a serious, reliable instrument.

The Loar LM-600 F-style mandolin boasts professional-grade sound and features at a wholly affordable price. Crafted and carved from solid spruce and maple with an ebony fretboard, the LM-600 is sonically comparable to the most prized vintage mandolins from the 1920s with a crystal-clear, full tone. A comfortable, rounded V-profile neck and larger frets allow for playing with less force on the strings and more speed. Premium tuners, adjustable trussrod and bridge, and a lifetime warranty will have the LM-600 in top shape for touring and recording musicians for decades to come.

With a bright tone and low price tag, the Rogue RM-100A A-Style mandolin is great for beginners. It has an easy-to-play neck and an adjustable rosewood bridge, making it perfect for new players who want to try bluegrass or any other style of music for mandolin. 

The Michael Kelly Legacy Elegante features a hand-carved spruce top, with solid flame maple comprising its F-style body. Its solid tailpiece and increased mass upgrades tone and eliminates any rattle. With radiused fretboards and flame maple binding, the Legacy Elegante boasts both style and fantastic tone.

The Ibanez M510EOVS Acoustic-Electric Mandolin updates the classic A-style body with contemporary electronics and precise Japanese construction for today's players. Built with the timeless combination of a solid Sitka spruce top and mahogany sides/back, this model brings the brings the deep, resonant sound into the 21st century with a single-coil magnetic pickup and knobs for volume and tone. An ideal route for gigging mandolinists, this is also an excellent avenue for newcomers who want a quality instrument without breaking the bank.

The Martin Vintage A Style Mandolin represents an archetype of craftsmanship in the golden era of folk instruments. Full, round, and robust, the A-style body allows you to project while retaining a sedate distinction in every note. Constructed with a flatback design as opposed to the traditional bowl for a more nuanced character and classic appointments like an oval soundhole and rosewood sides/back, this is a crown jewel in any patron's collection.

The Epiphone Mandobird is an electric 8-string mandolin built in the shape of a Firebird. 

A model with a teardrop-style body, magnetic neck pickup, and attainable price point? Done, done, and done. The Ibanez M510EDVS A-Style Acoustic-Electric Mandolin allows you to strum traditional six-string ditties or kick in the pickup volume and tone controls for filling out the sound at a show. Throw in a solid spruce top and mahogany backs and sides and you've got a little behemoth on your hands.

The Epiphone MM-30S A-Style Mandolin brings old-world sound and construction to the everyman with premium components and a price tag that won't break the bank. Incorporating a flat back that deviated from the traditional bowl-shape of previous mandolins, the MM-30S sports a solid spruce top and mahogany back/sides (a classic pairing) for robust tone without losing the articulation in every note. Perfect for beginners, the reasonable price also makes it a great option for a model to keep around the house to strum.

The Kentucky KM-140 Standard A-Model Mandolin is a timeless instrument, capturing the big, plucky sounds of the hills and presenting it in a modern package for today's players. Full and round in profile thanks to the A-style construction, The KM-140 employs maple in the sides and back along with a solid spruce top for projection without sacrificing clarity. An attractive option to professional mando players, the KM-140 Standard is an ideal avenue for any fan of folk.

Fender helped pioneer the solid body electric mandolin back in the '50s and '60s with a four string model. This modern reissue takes all the features of the original and provides modern precision, reliability and affordability. Fender also produces an 8-string version, known as the Mando-Strat 8.

The Fender Mando-Strat uses a gloss urethane finish over a 13.78" scale length Alder body. 

Years of Production: ca. 2013 - present

The Ibanez M700S-AVS F-Style Mandolin combines a classic folk instrument design with modern construction and appointments for a model made for today's players. Crafted with solid flamed maple on the sides and back with a solid spruce top and f-holes, the rich, lustrous character of the maple/spruce pairing articulate every note whether you're strumming or plucking. Finished in a high gloss with a vintage sunburst stain, this is an ideal avenue for professional players and enthusiasts alike.

With a bright tone and low price tag, the Rogue RM-100A A-Style mandolin is great for beginners. It has an easy-to-play neck and an adjustable rosewood bridge, making it perfect for new players who want to try bluegrass or any other style of music for mandolin. 

This Mandola has similar features to the Gibson A-2 Mandolin of this era. 

Years of Production: 1902 - 1922

The Loar LM-500 F-style mandolin features a vintage-tinged sound with modern appointments. The hand-carved spruce top and maple back and sides give the LM-500 a warm, clear sound while the scooped ebony fretboard allows for picking by the neck joint without hitting the upper frets. Most impressively, The Loar LM-500 comes in at an affordable price to make for a serious intermediate-level instrument or a great backup mandolin for the professional

Expanding on the success of their Warren Ellis tenor guitar series, Eastwood has released a line of solid-body electric mandocellos. With eight strings tuned Cc-Gg-dd-aa (in octaves for the C and G courses and doubled notes for the D and A courses), the Warren Ellis mandocello is a load of fun for any musician to expand their tonal capabilities.

Built on the basis of an f-style body shape with a solid spruce top and flame maple backs and sides, gold hardware appointments, and gold/pearloid tuning pegs, the Ibanez M522SDVS F-Style Mandolin is designed to catch as many eyes as ears. Topped off with a high-gloss polyurethane finish, this is a beautiful piece to have around the house or mic up for playing on stage.

The Breedlove Crossover FF F-Shape Mandolin is a classic arched rendition of an old-world instrument built with the design and components for today's players. Based on a arched top with resonant f-holes on the top, the Crossover incorporates laminated maple on the sides and back with a solid Sitka spruce top to produce tone that will reach the back of the room. Available in a high-gloss natural finish or vintage sunburst, this is a flagship instrument worthy of any serious player's consideration.

The mandocello is part of the mandolin family along with the mandola and mandobass. From about 1900 through the 1920s, Gibson produced all four of these instruments and marketed them together as a complete string orchestra. From 1908 until 1927, the K-1 matched the progression of the A-1 mandolin (as well as the H-1 mandola). 

Years of Production: 1902 - 1936

Wood Composition: Birch back and sides, Spruce top

The Eastwood Mandocaster is one of the best-selling electric mandolins in the world, and with good reason. With a classic vintage body shape and comfortable maple neck, the Mandocaster is immensely fun to play, with a range of sounds thanks to two single coil pickups that are clear as a bell and free from noise. Perfect for any mandolinist looking to break into effects pedals or being heard over a rock band, or guitar players looking for a different texture in their arrangements and recordings.

The Epiphone MM-50E Professional Mandolin brings together the allure of traditional craftsmanship and modern appointments by pairing a traditional flame maple back/sides and a solid spruce top with a Quad NanoMag pickup sporting Samarium cobalt magnets powered by a lithium preamp. Built for modern playing with a nod to rustic heritage, the MM-50E is a formidable choice for the touring mandolinist.

Morgan Monroe is a Asian-made brand that is distributed by SHS International. Morgan Monroe makes a range of instruments including the MM-100 series of F-style Mandolins. The E in the title indicates that this is the acoustic-electric version. 

Wood Composition: Maple back and sides, Spruce top 

Gibson F-style Mandolins stand as some of the most important and iconic Mandolins ever made. While those made after World War II are not nearly as highly regarded as those made in the '20s and '30s, higher-end Gibsons like the F-5G are still very sought-after instruments. Given contemporary demand for Mandolins, these instruments are typically built in very limited production runs. 

Years of Production: 1993 - present 

Wood Composition: Maple body, Mahogany neck, Rosewood fingerboard

Design Elements: Single-bound top, unbound fingerboard, pointed body, f-holes

The Gretsch G9320 New Yorker Deluxe Mandolin resurrects one of the company's classic models of the '50s in a package built for the modern mandolinist. Fashioned in the traditional bowl-like form for deep response, the spruce top and mahogany sides/back are a time-honored combination that project with clarity and balance. Finished with reliable components including Grover Sta-Tite tuners and nickel hardware, the G9320 brings the best of the old and new into one mandolin.

The 1920s era Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 Mandolins are some of the most valuable 20th century mandolins in existence. The actual value of each individual specimen varies greatly depends on the specific tone, date of production and appointments such as side binding and virzi. 

Intonation is notoriously inaccurate if left in original condition. Most specimens require significant work to become playable in a modern context, but produce a robust range of tones. 

Years of Production: 1922 - 1943, 1949 - 1980

Notable Players: Chris Thile, John Paul Jones, Mike Marshall

The A-00 was an A-shaped mandolin produced in the '30s and early '40s. It featured a carved, bound top and dot inlays. The A-00 used an oval sound-hole as opposed to the F-holes found on Gibson's more famous Mandolins from this era.

Years of Production: 1933 - 1943

Body Style: A-shaped