The Loar LM-520 Performer F-Style Mandolin, Solid Spruce Top, Vintage Sunburst

Manufacturer’s 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 industry-leading LM-700-VS, 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.

Specifications

• Model Number: LM-520-VS
• Model Name: Performer F-Style
• Top: Hand-Carved Solid Spruce
• Back & Sides Hand-Carved Solid Maple
• Bracing Pattern: Longitudinal Tone Bars
• Neck: Maple
• Fretboard: Padauk
• Headstock Inlay: None
• Finish: Gloss Vintage Sunburst
• Tuning Machines: Nickel with Ivory Buttons
• Scale Length: 13-29/32″
• Truss Rod: Two-way adjustable
• Frets: 29
• Binding: Ivoroid
• Bridge: Ebony, adjustable
• Nut, Width: Bone, 1-1/8″

Overall Condition

Music Store Live is proud to be an authorized dealer for The Loar. This LM-520 is 100% brand new and is being sold with a full manufacturer’s warranty.

note: The photos above may not be of the exact guitar you’ll receive. The serial number may differ but specs will all be the same. Please feel free to get in touch with us for an in-hand description.

Our in-house guitar tech will inspect, test, set up, and clean all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.