Dart HO-5 Octave Mandolin – English sycamore & Sitka spruce (2021)

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