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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