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Kentucky KM-252 Artist A-Model Mandolin Blonde
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A-style mandolin with F-holes, amber finish.
Features
- Solid, handcarved and graduated spruce top
- Solid, handcarved and graduated maple back and sides
- Authentic, vintage 1920s-style body outline
- F-shaped soundhole
- One-piece maple neck with dovetail neck/body joint at the 14th fret
- Rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl dot position markers, bound in white ABS
- Vintage-correct raised pickguard of laminated Black/White/Black ABS with beveled edge and vintage style attachment hardware
- Bone nut
- Snakehead rosewood peghead overlay with lovely, vintage Wreath white pearl peghead inlay and pearl Kentucky script
- Vintage-style, adjustable rosewood bridge with small adjustment wheels
- Traditional 2-screw black
- ABS truss-rod cover plate
- 13 7/8-inch scale length
- 22 highly-polished nickel silver frets
- Nickel-plated tailpiece with coverplate and leather insert
- High-quality tuning machines with white buttons
- High-gloss nitrocellulose finish
- Shop-adjusted
- Case sold separately
Order for an affordable A with classic bluegrass chop and clear, singing trebles.
KM-252 Artist A-Model Mandolin Specifications:
- Back and Side Material: Solid Maple
- Binding: Ivoroid
- Body Style: F-Model
- Bridge Material: Rosewood with Adjustment Wheels
- Fingerboard Binding: White ABS
- Fingerboard Inlay: M-O-P Dots
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
- Finish: High-gloss Transparent Amber Nitrocellulose
- Neck / Body Joint: Dovetail
- Neck Material: One-piece Maple
- Number of Frets Clear: 14
- Number of Frets Total: 22
- Nut Material: Bone
- Nut Width: 1 1/8"
- Peghead Inlay: Vintage Wreath white pearl and pearl Kentucky script
- Peghead Overlay: Snakehead Rosewood
- Pickguard: Black/White/Black ABS with beveled edge
- Plating: Nickel-plated / Pattern and Logo Stamped
- Scale
- Length: 13 7/8" (352.40mm)
- Sound Hole Shape: Traditional F-Hole
- Tailpiece: Nickel-plated with coverplate and leather insert
- Top: Solid Spruce
- Top Purfling: None
- Truss Rod: Traditional 2-screw black ABS
- Tuning Machines: High-quality tuning machines with white buttons
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