Collings MF 5 Mandolin F Style with Adirondack and Flame Maple in Full Sheraton Brown ID-8075

Collings MF 5 Mandolin F Style with Adirondack and Flame Maple in Full Sheraton Brown

Hand-crafted in Austin, TX, Collings mandolins are built with finest seasoned spruce and eastern maple. With equal emphasis placed on tone, fit and finish, and playability, they strive to create a new benchmark of quality in mandolins. The Collings MF 5 fully appointed F-model with a carved, seasoned Adirondack Spruce top and premium Flame Maple back and sides. The tone is thick and rich, with clear resonant highs that never sound thin. The Ebony fretboard plays extremely fast, making those bluegrass classics a breeze at any tempo, although the tone of this instrument is versatile enough to fit well into any genre from Irish to Classical.

Not only does this mandolin have tremendous playability the tone of this mandolin is very distinctive, with clear high end with plenty of headroom to make sure the mandolin is heard over a group jam session. This MF5 is finished in Full Sheraton Brown.

Musicians who prefer & play Collings mandolins include James Nash (The Waybacks), Adam Steffey, James Key (Hamilton County Ramblers), Sarah Jarosz, Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons), and The Greencards!

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Specifications:

Shipping Weight: 20

Serial: F1624

Top Wood: Adirondack Spruce

Back Wood: Premium Birdseye Maple

Nut Width: 1 1/8"

Scale: 13 7/8"

Bracing: Parallel tone bar bracing

Inlays: Mother of pearl dot fingerboard inlays

Fretboard: Ebony 5 1/2"-11 5/8" Compound fingerboard radius

Nut Material: Bone

Saddle Spacing: 1 9/16" string spacing

Bridge: Custom adjustable floating ebony bridge

Tuners: Nickel Tuners with Ivoroid Buttons

Purfling: Black/white purflings

Body Binding: Grained ivoroid

Fretboard Binding: Grained ivoroid

Headstock Binding: Grained ivoroid

Headstock Shape: Bound Florentine-style headstock

Headstock Overlay: Ebony

Headstock Inlay: Collings logo and flourish inlay

Frets To Body: 15

Neck Profile: V shaped neck profile

Body Depth: 1 13/16"

Lower Bout Width: 9 15/16"

Body Length: 12 7/8"

Total Length: 27 7/16"

Case: Hardshell Case Included

Misc. 1: Full Sheraton Brown Finish

Misc. 2: Mortise and tenon neck joint

Misc. 3: Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire

Misc. 5: F-soundholes

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