{"product_id":"bulas-blonde-a-style-oval-hole-mandolin-4169","title":"Bulas Blonde A-Style Oval Hole Mandolin #4169","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bulas Blonde carries the same master-grade Carpathian spruce top and curly maple body as the fully appointed Artemis, then strips the cosmetics back to almost nothing: no bound fretboard, no bound peghead, no back binding. What remains is the part that makes the sound. A hand-carved spruce top over figured curly maple, finished in a warm blonde amber that leaves the flame in the wood fully visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe oval soundhole drives the character here. Where an f-hole mandolin pushes a tight, percussive chop, the oval hole opens up the bass and low mids, trading some of that cut for warmth, sustain, and a thicker layer of overtones. It rewards melodic playing the most: Celtic tunes, fiddle-tune melody lines, and songwriting behind a vocal all sit naturally in this voice. The African ebony fingerboard runs a consistent 12-inch radius, and the 354 mm scale with a 29 mm nut keeps string spacing in familiar territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppointments stop at a three-layer maple binding on the top, white mother-of-pearl dot markers, and a pearl logo on the headstock, all under high-gloss nitrocellulose. Schaller tuners with ebony buttons and a cast Bulas tailpiece round out the hardware in nickel, and a Gator GL-Mandolin light case comes with it. For a player who wants oval-hole tone from a hand-built European shop and would rather put the money into the wood than the trim, the Blonde is the most direct route in the Bulas catalog.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bulas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52838599721277,"sku":"M\/2604169","price":3243.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0883\/3348\/4349\/files\/BulasBlondeA-StyleOvalHoleMandolin_4169-1.jpg?v=1789755739","url":"https:\/\/theacousticshoppe.com\/products\/bulas-blonde-a-style-oval-hole-mandolin-4169","provider":"The Acoustic Shoppe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}