Description

The hand-carved LM-520 F-model mandolin is our response to players’ requests for a great-sounding, high-value mandolin with low key appointments.

The LM-520 is carefully assembled in the same hand-carved workshop that gave birth to the LM-400 and 700, and has a similar hand-carved, fully graduated spruce top. The solid maple back is also hand-carved, and the solid maple sides complete the all-solid package. The maple neck has a comfortable rounded “V” profile finished with a padauk fretboard. The compensated adjustable ebony bridge and high quality vintage-style Grover tuning machines insure that these mandolins have great intonation and stay in tune no matter how hard they are played.

Perfect for players who want a high-quality, great-sounding hand-carved mandolin but don’t need all of the bells and whistles, these minimally appointed instruments deliver the high-end tone, chop and projection mandolin players have come to expect from The Loar.

• Top: Solid Hand-Carved, Fully Graduated Spruce Top
• Back & Sides: Solid Hand-Carved, Fully Graduated Maple Back, Solid Maple Sides
• Neck: Maple w/Rounded “V” Profile
• Fretboard: Bound Padauk
• Headstock Inlay: M.O.P. Logo
• Finish Type: Gloss
• Finish Options: Vintage Sunburst
• Tuning Machines: Grover with Pearloid Buttons
• Scale Length: 13-3/4″
• Truss Rod: Adjustable
• Frets: 29
• Binding: Ivoroid
• Bridge: Compensated Adjustable Ebony
• Upper Bout: 6-3/4″
• Lower Bout: 10″
• Nut, Width: Bone, 1-1/8″
• Depth: 2-1/2″
• Body Length: 12-3/4″
• Total Length: 27-1/4″