Hans is the master of old and new. My M21v is the ultimate in traditional design and old fashioned tastefulness. The recently sold Stealth and this Eclipse demonstrate his mastery of pushing the boundaries of design, some will love it some won't. Regular visitors to this site will know of my love of different designs so that puts me firmly in the former camp. The sound is Brentrup plus. I've had the privilege of playing some very fine mandolins over the last few years but few match a Brentrup. It has incredible power with a richness and depth of tone that is amazing. From the most delicate touch to the hardest chop it responds willingly, a truly amazing mandolin.


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Our first F5 from Hans. This beauty is in Virginia red spruce (Adirondack) and sugar maple with flowerpot abalone headstock inlay, tortoise pickguard, James tailpiece and a scalloped fingerboard extension. Hans achieves a balance of power, sweetness and cut that few others can emulate. This amazing mandolin responds to whatever you want it to do. It will cut through with the best of them with incredibly punchy chop chords. It has depth and complexity with clarity and sweetness, characteristics that from a lesser luthier are an either/or choice. It is one of the most versatile mandolins I have played.



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This is one of the sweetest, richest most complex mandolins I've ever heard. It looks incredible too with immaculate workmanship and the most beautiful quilted maple back and sides.

Unfortunately due to ill health Hans has had to announce his retirement. If he hadn't agreed to finish the Eclipse V6 I have on order I wouldn't be selling this amazing mandolin.

I'm thinking of going back to oval hole mandolins after playing this beauty from Hans. It has the thickness of a good oval hole mandolin but with incredible volume and clarity at the high end. Spruce top, flamed maple back and sides, McIntyre feather pickup, James tailpiece, 1 3/16" nut width, ebony fretboard and bridge, tortoise bound top and back, ebony sculpted pickguard, twenty one frets, abalone inlaid logo, tortoise bound soundhole with white coach-line and hard case.