Fibenare produces this model in three serial types with various neck joints, woods, pickups, etc. in lefthanded, four, five, six & seven string variations as well. Do you wish something 'Unique'? Fibenare can build you a custom shop instrument. Please make your choice!
Currently, Jonathan Mann is building three styles of acoustic mandolins; the A-7, the F-7 and the Two Point. All three incorporate a "neck-thru" (patent pending) construction technique. While at first glance most people think "how can that thing sound right when it has that big hunk of wood going through the body?" Well... the body is actually hollow and carved just like any other fine arched top/back instrument...
Jonathan Mann currently makes two main variations on the electric mandolin; the EM 4, 5 or 8 string - a hollow body electric, and the SEM 4 & 5 string - a solid body electric. The EM is a "morph" between a few popular body styles and is made of only the finest materials available. There are lots of available options for this mandolin. The SEM 4 & 5 string electrics are available with double or single cutaways. The SEM has a 3 piece maple neck thru, solid mahogany body with carved curly maple top and hand machined aluminum wrap around tailpiece. This is the ultimate mandolin for sustain!
Myka offers both electric and acoustic instrument designs. The styles in this gallery can be used as a starting point for a new instrument or modified to fit your particular needs or something entirely new can be designed..
No, you didn't forget to put on your glasses! These fractured, yet crafted, random yet profoundly organized instruments are the creations of Phil Sylvester of Pheo Guitars. They are the very epitome of functional art - they play, beautifully, even startlingly well. They are consummate instruments that press hard at the boundaries of what we normally think an instrument "should" be.
The first SLAB Scharpach made was for Hans Theessink, probably the only famous, internationally successful Dutch Blues Player in the world. Later, Scharpach made another one for the well known songwriter in the Netherlands; Boudewijn de Groot. He liked the dark colored sound of the d-tuned guitar to fit his voice.
The played D-chord sounds one octave lower, when playing the E- finger setting in the first position, which gives the guitar an open tuning character.
Western Red Cedar body, 34" inch scale, fretless neck with pao ferro fingerboard, Hipshot "ultra light" tuners, Carved cocobolo tailpiece, Clear natural satin finish, Exclusive Wendler MagPi transducer system
- Grover cast plate machines - EMG dual coil magnetic in the MagPi system - "Select" Western Red Cedar body - Cocobolo peg head overlay - Bone nut - Sperzel lightweight tuning machines - Carved cocobolo tailpiece - Compensated saddle - Tortoise pick guard - Clear natural satin finish
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