Dart A-5 “Hummingbird” Mandolin – Massachusetts sugar maple & Sitka spruce (2021)

Standard maple & spruce A-style mandolin body with F-holes and custom peghead / fingerboard inlay. Hand-carved top & back. 

  • Curly Eastern sugar maple (Massachusetts) sides, back, & neck
  • Master-grade Sitka spruce (Ketchikan, Alaska) top
  • Indian ebony fingerboard & suspended Dart finger-rest
  • Ebony bridge
  • Bronze Dart tailpiece
  • Rubner tuners  
  • Ivoroid body/fingerboard/peghead binding
  • Hand-cut abalone & mother-of-pearl hummingbird peghead inlay
  • Hand-cut abalone Dart logo
  • Hand-cut abalone & sterling silver vine fingerboard inlay
  • Bone nut & saddle
  • Black side dots
  • Sunburst / nitrocellulose lacquer finish 
  • 13-7/8” string length
  • 1-1/8” nut width