Eastman MD815-SB Sunburst F-Style Mandolin #3348

The Eastman MD815-SB pairs a hand-carved solid Adirondack spruce top with solid highly flamed maple back and sides, the same tonewood pairing that built the reputation of the pre-war F-style mandolins bluegrass players still chase. A gloss sunburst finish, full ivoroid binding across the top, back, fingerboard, and headstock, and a pearl flower-pot peghead inlay give it the fully dressed, traditional look serious mandolin players expect from an F-style instrument.

Adirondack spruce brings a stiffer, louder top than Sitka — similar in punch to what it does on a dreadnought guitar, but here it's paired with dense flamed maple that tightens up the low end and sharpens the attack. The F-holes push out a focused, barking chop that cuts through a crowded jam, and notes decay fast enough that flatpicked fiddle tunes stay clear and separated instead of blurring together on faster passages.

A solid maple neck with an ebony fingerboard and 12-inch radius carries 23 Jescar frets, so single-note runs up the neck and chop-chord shapes across all four courses stay comfortable at speed. An adjustable compensated ebony bridge, Eastman's cast aluminum tailpiece, and Gotoh tuners keep intonation and tuning stable night after night, and it ships in a hardshell case with a low, fast factory setup — built for a working bluegrass player who needs an F-style mandolin that holds up on stage, not just on the porch.

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