Martin style 000 12 fret Guitar

Archtop Mandolin

Our archtop mandolins are based on Gibson style instruments.
Front and back are hand carved from bookmatched solid blocks of quality timber with just a single brace on the front soundboard to support the acoustical integrity of the instrument while enhancing tonal richness.

Solid Flame Maple hand carved back and flame Maple sides.
Solid hand carved Spruce front with oval soundhole with line of Abalone with contrasting black and white veneers.
Two part laminated Maple neck with Rosewood veneered peghead fitted with Gotoh 4-in-line tuners. Decorated with “David Oddy” brand and “Vine” inlay all in Mother-of-Pearl
Maple bindings with contrasting veneers between all boards and binding
Setup with Elixir 10-34 strings and tuned GDAE. Scale length of 1 3/16” / 360mm
supplied with hard case

Prices start from £2200

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Celtic Style !

We can also produce the same style of instrument with a flat back .. well not flat, still curved but flat 2mm thick boards with a few shaped spruce braces.

These are often dubbed Celtic Mandolins although for some what we call a flat back is a 'Celtic' style instrument .. In this instance 'customer is always right' and they can call an instrument shape and style what they like and we can build to whatever hybrid of timbers and construction style is preferred.

The Celtic instrument is still built to a high quality but the easier construction of the flat back makes these instruments more value for money.

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"I've played many hand-made instruments over the years, and David and Nick's combination of construction and high quality materials is among the best in the business. There's also nothing that can touch their cello-mandolin in terms of unique sound, depth and songwriting inspiration!" Ian Cleverdon of The Huers