A beautiful F4 style octave mandolin with hand graduated spruce top and solid mahogany back and sides. It as a 20" scale length and 1 3/8" nut with a traditional Brekke bridge giving excellent playability. The top is bound, the fretboard is radiussed and bound ebony and it has a solid/cast stainless steel tailpiece, dual action truss rod, Grover tuners, Celtic knot and 'Weber' headstock design and a custom hard case.

Wonderful deep and full tone, fantastic warmth and resonance with well defined basses, complex mids and clear, ringing trebles and with the 20" scale it plays very easily.

Fantastic rich and full sounding octave mandolin with 20" scale making it very easy to play. It has great resonance and warmth and depth of tone with excellent definition and projection from the lowest to highest notes.

A5 style octave mandolin with hand graduated spruce top and solid mahogany back and sides. 20" scale length and 1 3/8" nut with a traditional Brekke bridge (adjustable under tension). The top is bound, the fretboard is radiussed and bound ebony and it has a solid/cast stainless steel tailpiece, dual action truss rod, Grover tuners, Celtic knot and 'Weber' headstock design and a custom hard case.

A beautiful F5 style octave mandolin with hand graduated spruce top and solid mahogany back and sides. It as a 20" scale length and 1 3/8" nut with a traditional Brekke bridge giving excellent playability. The top is bound, the fretboard is radiussed and bound ebony and it has a solid/cast stainless steel tailpiece, dual action truss rod, Grover tuners, Celtic knot and 'Weber' headstock design and a custom hard case.

It is tone bar braced so there is none of that floppiness common to flat top octave mandolins. It has great power and definition with plenty of character and depth of tone and excellent projection. With a 20" scale it is very easy to play.

TAMCO's first harp guitar and what a beauty. If you haven't heard a harp guitar you should check out Stephen Bennett

This really is incredible with a fantastic guitar tone and those wonderful rich and melodious harp strings.

The harp strings are currently tuned E G A C D E, low to high.

Top - Lutz Spruce
Back & sides - Rosewood
Neck - Mahogany/Rosewood/Maple
Fretboard - Ebony
Case - Colorado Case Co soft case

Frets to the body - 14
Scale length - 25.4"
Neck profile - C
Nut width - 44.0mm
Nut spacing - 7.5mm
Bridge spacing - 11.4mm
Action fret 1 low E - 0.5mm
Action fret 12 low E - 2.15mm
Action fret 1 high E - 0.5mm
Action fret 12 high E - 2.15mm
Lower bout width - 16"

Black/white/black purfling - Koa bindings - Ebony headstock veneer - No position markers (with abalone side dots) - Cocobolo rosette - Ebony bridge - Gotoh 510 mini tuners - Black tuner buttons - Bone nut and saddle - Ebony bridge pins

Another amazing octave mandolin from Bill. Colorado engelmann spruce top (milled 1997) with red spruce spruce x bracing, Vermont mamaple (milled 2006) 2 piece back, 16" radius macassar ebony fretboard, bridge, pickguard, and peghead veneer, ivoroid celluloid binding, abalone position dots and wave inlay, 1 3/8 bison bone nut, grover tuners, sunburst lacquer finish over shella, Mangan custom 48-34-23-13 strings, tweed hardshell case.

I have only ever owned two octave mandolins personally, both made by Mr. Bussmann.To use one of my favourite cliches again it sounds as good as it looks. Well defined bass (not a common feature on octave mandolins) with depth and resonance, warm and complex mids with clear and strong trebles... fantastic.

A fantastic custom order.

Customised for TAMCO to my specifications, with incredible quilted maple back and sides, this is a very special mandola.

All the depth and warmth you would expect from a great mandola but with the legendary Collings definition and projection. Yes you can have it all, resonance and clarity in one package. Mandolas don't get any better than this.

Select Adirondack spruce top
Select figured maple back, sides and neck
Parallel tone bar bracing
F-soundholes
Ivoroid binding
Satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish
Bound "Haircut" headstock
13 Degree headstock angle
Ebony peghead overlay with inlaid Collings logo
Ebony fingerboard
Mortise and tenon neck joint
22-frets, neck joins the body at the 15th fret
V shaped neck profile with 1 9/16" string spacing
5 1/2"-11 5/8" Compound fingerboard radius
1 11/16" Bone nut
15.9" Scale length
Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
Mother of pearl dot fingerboard inlays
Fully adjustable truss rod
Custom adjustable floating ebony bridge
Collings original one-piece nickel tailpiece
Nickel tuners with black or pearl buttons
Collings deluxe hardshell case

Double bound body, red sunburst on spruce top, bound oval soundhole, 3 ring rosette, mahogany neck, bound ebony fretboard, dot inlays, 24 frets (professional re-fret), original tailpiece cover and bridge, fleur-de-lis and logo inlays, 4-on-a-plate tuners with Handel inlaid tuner buttons. In excellent condition with low action.

It sounds fantastic, lots of that great vintage gibbo tone with solid bases, sweet mids and clear trebles.

With original case (not the modern one shown in the photos).

Sold to Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention.

1918 F4 that's seen some action. It structurally sound all round, with original tuners with the fantastic Handel buttons, original tailpiece and cover, later adjustable bridge and a modern shaped hardshell case.

I love its well worn look and it sounds terrific, its warm and full with plenty of volume. A great price for a wonderful piece of history that has many a year of entertainment in it yet for players and audiences.