Kentucky KM-5000 Bill Monroe Master Model All Solid Adirondack Top F-Style Mandolin - Spirit Varnish
Product Code: KM-5000
Our Price: $2,699.99
Description
It’s like traveling in time back to 1923 when you purchase the Bill
Monroe Model KM-5000! We’ve recreated this fabulous mandolin with the
finest woods, subtle Cremona sunburst finish (of spirit varnish—like the
original) and we include a repro oblong case and cover and a
Certificate signed by Bill’s son, James!
The new master model KM-5000 from Kentucky uses the finest, most highly figured Michigan Maple combined with the whitest, most fine-grained Adirondack Spruce. These solid woods are meticulously hand carved and graduated — just as were the fabled originals of the early ’20s — to achieve the finest tone quality and volume possible in a new instrument.
It’s like traveling in time back to 1923 when you purchase the Bill Monroe Model KM-5000! We’ve recreated this fabulous mandolin with the finest woods, subtle Cremona sunburst finish (of spirit varnish—like the original) and we include a repro oblong case and cover and a Certificate signed by Bill’s son, James!.
The new master model KM-5000 from Kentucky uses the finest, most highly figured Michigan Maple combined with the whitest, most fine-grained Adirondack Spruce. These solid woods are meticulously hand carved and graduated — just as were the fabled originals of the early ’20s — to achieve the finest tone quality and volume possible in a new instrument.
It’s like traveling in time back to 1923 when you purchase the Bill Monroe Model KM-5000! We’ve recreated this fabulous mandolin with the finest woods, subtle Cremona sunburst finish (of spirit varnish—like the original) and we include a repro oblong case and cover and a Certificate signed by Bill’s son, James!.
Kentucky KM-5000 Bill Monroe Pro Mandolin Features:
- Finest, most select Adirondack spruce top
- Finest, selected Michigan maple back and sides
- 1-piece, highly figured maple neck joins at the 15th fret
- Traditional spirit varnish finish
- Delicately shaded, vintage sunburst finish
- 29-fret bound ebony extension fingerboard with M-O-P dot position markers
- Ivoroid binding on all edges
- Distinctive pearl peghead inlay of Bill Monroe with commemorative banner and
- signature
- Vintage-style ebony bridge with small, gold-plated adjustment wheels
- M-O-P nut
- Finest quality engraved, gold-plated Gotoh tuning machines w/M-O-P buttons
- Engraved, gold-plated tailpiece with hand engraved cover
- Comes with Superior® CS-1520 deluxe case
- Elegantly bound, imitation tortoise pickguard with authentic fastenings (optional)
- 1 Year Warranty