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Mandonator™ Features

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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

 


Topher Gayle • music@TopherGayle.com • 408-221-9378