The hand-carved LM-520 F-model mandolin is the response to players' requests for a value priced mandolin with more stripped down appointments yet a similar sound to the best-selling Loar LM-600 mandolin.

The 520 is carefully assembled in the same hand-carved workshop that gave birth to the LM-400 and 700, and have similar hand-carved, fully graduated spruce tops. The solid maple back of each instrument is also hand carved, and the solid maple sides complete the package. The maple neck has a comfortable rounded V profile finished with a rosewood 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 the music community has come to expect from The Loar.

MPN: LM-520-VS

• 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 Rosewood
  
• 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"