Collings MF Adirondack Maple Mandolin F1698
Our luthier Rob Sharer demos this amazing Collings mandolin. Bright, crispy, F-style tone. This Adirondack spruce top and maple back and sides mandolin is a killer instrument.
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Sound Pure's Take
Whoa, what a mando. It's not often a mandolin comes through the shop that makes one feel powerful when it's played, but this Collings does. It's got attitude, it's got bright, crispy F-style tone, and it plays so well you can't help but feel completely confident when you play it. Commanding sunburst finish and classic F-style aesthetics, it demands to be taken seriously. This mando simply kills.
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From Collings Guitars
The MF is our satin finish F-model with simplified appointments. With a fully carved Adirondack spruce top and maple back and sides, the MF is built with the same quality construction as our fully-appointed models. These instruments produce the rich, woody tone that one would expect from a professional quality mandolin at an affordable price.
Standard Features Include
Select Adirondack spruce top
Select figured maple back, sides and neck
Parallel tone bar bracing
F-soundholes
- Ivoroid Binding
- Satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Gloss Top
- Unbound Florentine-style 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 1/8" Bone nut
13 7/8" 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
Recommended string gauge - D'Addario J-74 (.011"-.040")
Collings deluxe hardshell case by TKL
Dimensions
- Body Length
- 12 7/8"
- Body Depth at Side
- 1 13/16"
- Lower Bout Width
- 9 15/16"
- Total Length
- 27 7/16"
- Scale Length
- 13 7/8"
- Standard Nut Width
- 1 1/8"
Strings
- Factory Strings
- D' Addario J-74 (.011"-.040")
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