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Please ignore information to the contrary while my luthier web pages are in the process of being updated.

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Basic Mandonator™ features:

 

• 4 strings, standard scale
• Straight-grained African mahogany, American cherry, or black walnut body
• African mahogany neck with snakehead headstock
• Wood body binding
• Spherically arched back
• Radiused fingerboard
• Glossy nitrocellulose finish
• Gotoh tuning machines
• James tailpiece
• Gayle coverplate
• Beard spider and cone
• Custom fingerboard width
• Optional cutaway

 

Some special optional features that I have provided:

 

• 5th or 6th string
• Custom scale choices
• Premium woods
• Neck binding
• Special inlays
• Custom headstock shapes
• Sunburst or solid stains
• Purfling – many types and configurations
• Fan-frets
• Arm rest – wooden clamp-on or screw-on
• Pickguard – wooden or plastic
• Tone-Gard™ – custom fit for a Mandonator™
• Pickup
• Ebony strap buttons
• Case