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 | "Weber's most traditional F style mandolin. It has their unique abalone fern peghead design and a matching abalone-in-ebony truss-rod cover. The fingerboard has an 10 inch radius, 6.5mm mother-of-pearl dots, ivory binding, and a double cutaway fingerboard extension. The body has a spruce top carved from either Sitka, Engelmann, or red spruce with tone bar bracing. The back is carved from curly maple. A one-piece back is available on request. Full body binding frames a gorgeous sunburst finish. Available with or without pickguard."
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 | "A gorgeous hand-rubbed finish, precision carved natural spruce top, graceful twin F-holes, and rich ebony fretboard with small diamond inlays deliver fetching looks and stellar tone. Features curly maple back, rim and neck; logo and knot inlaid on the ebony peghead veneer; an adjustable ebony bridge; and engraved Schaller tuners with pearloid buttons."
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 | One of the generic brand Korean-made "Irish" octave mandolas sold under a wide variety of brand names. It's a decent beginner/intermediate instrument made from solid wood (no plywood here!) and with a short and slim neck that makes it very easy to play.
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 | Irish style octave mandolin (octave mandola). The Gold Tone OM-800 features a solid spruce top, curly maple back and sides, bone nut and saddle, 20 1/4" scale, and dot inlay. Its design and spesifications are similar to "the generic brand Korean-made 'Irish' octave mandola" although it's supposedly assembled in the USA from parts imported from AsiaI don't know much about Gold Tone's mandos, but their banjos are very decent instruments for the price. Production quality might vary a lot, but the factory's always quick to repair or replace any less successful instruments. Some banjoists complain about the Gold Tones having too light an action, but for a less experienced players that's often an advantage, and it's easy to change anyway.
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 | "The Michael Kelly Legacy Octave gives mandolin players that deeper Octave mandolin tone and in an f-style. The Legacy Octave has a 22" scale length, all solid wood body and dovetail neck joint."
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