Eastman MD315 F-Style Hand-Carved Mandolin #6014
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Description
The Eastman MD315 carries a hand-carved solid spruce top over solid maple back and sides in a traditional F-style body, construction you'd normally find on mandolins costing twice as much. Spruce delivers the top-end clarity and articulation a mandolin needs to cut through a band mix, while the maple back and sides tighten the low end and add the percussive chop bluegrass players chase. This is the mandolin for pickers who've outgrown a laminate A-style instrument and want real carved-top dynamics for stage and jam sessions.
Tremolo passages ring clean instead of blurring together, and the chop chord snaps with the attack bluegrass rhythm sections demand. The satin-finished neck and 12" radius ebony fingerboard let the hand move fast through long sets, while the adjustable ebony bridge and cast aluminum tailpiece hold tuning steady under aggressive picking.
Ivoroid binding and pearl dot inlays dress up the F-style scroll without adding weight, and the Proline tuners keep every string locked in. It ships with D'Addario XT Phosphor Bronze strings and a padded gig bag, ready for a Saturday night bluegrass jam or a quieter singer-songwriter set alike.
Serial #6014 — this listing is for the exact instrument shown in the photos above.
Specifications
Overview
- Style
- F-Style
- Top Wood
- Solid Adirondack Spruce
- Back & Sides
- Solid Maple
- Scale Length
- 13 7/8"
- Nut Width
- 1 3/16"
- Handedness
- Right-Handed
Body
- Top Wood
- Solid Adirondack Spruce
- Back & Sides Wood
- Solid Maple
- Torrefied / Thermo-Cured
- No
- Rosette
- None
- Binding
- Top
- Pickguard
- None
- Color
- Classic
Neck & Fingerboard
- Neck Wood
- Maple
- Neck Shape
- Traditional
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Fingerboard Inlay
- Pearl Dots
- Radius
- 12"
- Scale Length
- 13 7/8"
- Nut Width
- 1 3/16"
- Nut Material
- Bone
- String Spacing
- 1 5/8"
- Fret Material
- 23 Jescar FW37053
Hardware & Electronics
- Tuning Machines
- Proline J-105
- Bridge
- Adjustable Compensated Ebony Bridge
- Tailpiece
- Eastman Cast Aluminum Tailpiece
- Hardware Color
- Nickel
- Headstock Inlay
- Pearl Headstock
- Truss Rod
- Single Acting
In the Case
- Case / Gig Bag
- Padded Gig Bag
- Strings
- D'Addario XT Phosphor Bronze 1140
