The Loar Golden Age F-Model Mandolin is getting great reviews!
Embodying the spirit of the rare and costly vintage mandolins from the Golden Age of mandolin lutherie, the all-solid carved wood mandolin from Loar has high-end features at a affordable price (it's still not cheap, as it is a bona fide professional mandolin). We are proud to introduce The Loar as the first mandolin in our new store. It is named after the master luthier, Lloyd Loar, who worked at Gibson from 1919-1924 and did nothing less than revolutionize the mandolin. He is most famous for his F5 model mandolin, made famous by the bluegrass music of Bill Monroe who used a Gibson F5 model signed by Loar during most of his career. The F5 became the basic design after which contemporary F-type mandolins are patterned. Original signed Loar mandolins have sold for $200,000!

The Loar Mandolin features a premium solid spruce top, solid highly-flamed maple back and sides, a flamed maple neck, and an ebony fretboard and bridge. With an abalone/ M.O.P. custom flower pot headstock inlay, this model fulfills every artistic demand. Vintage white binding borders the entire instrument with an added black and white inlay on the top, back, headstock, fingerboard and pickguard. The pickguard is the same tortoise-shell plastic as the vintage original, and a reproduction tailpiece with an engraved cover divides the string pressure in the correct manner. This model also comes with premium Grover tuning machines with pearloid buttons to assure easy, precise tuning. The tone, craftsmanship and features of this marvelous instrument will make your jaw drop.

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