Gallery of Mandonator™ Instruments
= Mandonator™ Serial #9 ===
This is a 5-string mandolin-mandola.
The optional features are:
- Five strings with scale 14.295"
- Monkeypod body with rosewood binding
- One F-shaped soundhole
- African ebony fingerboard
- Multi-colored mother-of-pearl Japanese maple inlays on head and fingerboard
- Snakehead shaped headstock and African ebony veneer
- Gotoh 510 Mini tuners; James tailpiece
- Gayle design resonator coverplate
Standard features include:
- Spherically arched back
- Mahogany neck
- Radiused fingerboard
- Spider bridge and resonator cone
- Cutaway
- Maple saddle and amber buffalo horn nut
- Gloss nitrocellulose finish by Addam Stark of Santa Cruz
The rosewood binding accents the gorgeous wood of the monkeypod body very nicely. An extra maple leaf inlay found a home on the heel cap.
The Japanese maple leaf inlays glisten in light, and shift color as you move the instrument around.
A closer look at some of the inlay.
You can see photos of this instrument under construction on its Shop Talk page.