Sound and playability are not affected, it just doesn’t look as nice as I wish it did. This instrument would have been $900, but I listed it for $850 because of the defect. You can see the bookmatched dark lines from the repair, below the bridge in the top picture. The most widely used cable with 2.

Eastman MDO305 Octave Mandolin w/ Bag - Classic Finish. That's an F style and this has more of the guitar-style body as opposed to the mandolin style body. Find deals on mandolins from top brands like Eastman, Washburn, Gibson, and more. The soundboard on this one has a cosmetic flaw, there was a weak grain line in the soundboard that passed through the edge of both halves and I missed it when I was putting the wood together. I have a Weber Octave that I play as well. I don’t have any mandolin playing skills but I hope the video will give some idea of the sound. The nut and saddle are Corian and the tuners came from Stew-Mac. The neck, sides, and back are cherry, the soundboard is spruce, the binding is curly maple, the peghead overlay is cherry burl and the fretboard and bridge are jatoba. I know that the go-to response is 'play them both' but that's not a privilege everyone has. The chance that they have both octaves and tenor guitars is slim and the chance that they carry Ponos is non-existent. I was very pleasantly surprised by how resonant the first one was, and now that I have built more to the same specifications they are just as good. The closest store that even carries mandolins is 9 hours away. This leaves the bridge in the same position it would be in on the guitar. The guitar had a 14 fret neck with a longer scale, but the mandolin has a 12 fret neck with a 22″ scale length. The only change I made to the soundbox was to reduce the depth to 3″ throughout. 1937 Gibson L-00 (Guild of American Luthiers plan #55) from which the soundbox design is taken. I worked it out in consultation with the person who placed the custom order for it, and he provided a plan for a ca. This instrument design was originally an experiment.

Octave mandolin vs guitar