Dart HO-5 octave mandolin (2021) (front) 
Dart HO-5 octave mandolin (2021) (front close-up) 
Dart HO-5 octave mandolin (2021) (front close-up) 
Dart HO-5 octave mandolin (2021) (side) 
Dart HO-5 octave mandolin (2021) (back close-up) 
Dart HO-5 octave mandolin (2021) (peghead)
This is an octave mandolin, built with a mandola-sized A-style body, F-holes, with a peghead vine & diamond fingerboard markers. Highly figured English sycamore sides / back / neck. Hand-carved top & back. Custom order / NFS.
- Curly English sycamore 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 binding
- Hand-cut abalone & mother-of-pearl vine peghead inlay
- Hand-cut abalone Dart logo
- Hand-cut abalone fingerboard diamonds
- Mother-of-pearl side dots
- Bone nut & saddle
- Sunburst / nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- 21” string length
- 1-3/8” nut width