Flat Top Mandolin Back and Side Sets
PIMS14390 - Grafted Pistachio, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Salvaged from Commercial Grove, Amazing Colors & Contrast, Very Hard, Dense Fine Grain, Visually Stunning, Excellent Tone, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6.5" X 17.25", S2S, and 2 panels each 0.19"
Grafted Pistachio, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Salvaged from Commercial Grove, Amazing Colors & Contrast, Very Hard, Dense Fine Grai...
View full detailsPIMS14389 - Grafted Pistachio, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Salvaged from Commercial Grove, Amazing Colors & Contrast, Very Hard, Dense Fine Grain, Visually Stunning, Excellent Tone, 2 panels each 0.16" x 6.25" X 19", S2S, and 2 panels each 0.16" x
Grafted Pistachio, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Salvaged from Commercial Grove, Amazing Colors & Contrast, Very Hard, Dense Fine Grai...
View full detailsPIMS14388 - Pistachio, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Salvaged from Commercial Grove, Amazing Colors & Contrast, Very Hard, Dense Fine Grain, Visually Stunning, Excellent Tone, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6.5" X 17", S2S, and 2 panels each 0.19" x 2.25" X 2
Pistachio, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Salvaged from Commercial Grove, Amazing Colors & Contrast, Very Hard, Dense Fine Grain, Visua...
View full detailsMAMS14895 - Western Big Leaf Maple, Mandolin Flattop Back & Side Set, Salvaged Old Growth, Excellent Color & Curl, Traditional Mandolin Tonewood, Minor sticker mark, should be stained, 2 panels each 0.15" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.15" x 2" X 28
Western Big Leaf Maple, Mandolin Flattop Back & Side Set, Salvaged Old Growth, Excellent Color & Curl, Traditional Mandolin Tonewood, Minor...
View full detailsMAMS14894 - Western Big Leaf Maple, Mandolin Flattop Back & Side Set, Salvaged Old Growth, Excellent Color & Curl, Traditional Mandolin Tonewood, Minor sticker mark, should be stained, 2 panels each 0.15" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.15" x 2" X 28
Western Big Leaf Maple, Mandolin Flattop Back & Side Set, Salvaged Old Growth, Excellent Color & Curl, Traditional Mandolin Tonewood, Minor...
View full detailsMAMS14892 - Western Big Leaf Maple, Mandolin Flattop Back & Side Set, Salvaged Old Growth, Excellent Color & Curl, Traditional Mandolin Tonewood, Minor sticker mark, should be stained, 2 panels each 0.15" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.15" x 2" X 28
Western Big Leaf Maple, Mandolin Flattop Back & Side Set, Salvaged Old Growth, Excellent Color & Curl, Traditional Mandolin Tonewood, Minor...
View full detailsDFMS14136 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14133 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14132 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14131 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14130 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14129 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14128 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14127 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14125 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14124 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Proj...
View full detailsDFMS14123 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound &a...
View full detailsDFMS14122 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound &a...
View full detailsDFMS14121 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound &a...
View full detailsDFMS14120 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound &a...
View full detailsDFMS14119 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound &a...
View full detailsDFMS14118 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound &a...
View full detailsDFMS14116 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound &a...
View full detailsDFMS14115 - Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound & Projection, 2 panels each 0.19" x 6" X 16", S1S, and 2 panels each 0.17" x 2.25" X 28", S1S
Douglas Fir, Mandolin Flat Top Back & Side Set, Med. to Fine Grain, Excellent Color, Highly Resonant Mandolin Tonewood, Yields Amazing Sound &a...
View full detailsPort Orford Cedar (POC) is a stellar choice for Mandolin flat top soundboards, backs, sides & necks. POC tonewood, (actually a Pseudo-Cypress), is also very light weight, strong, amazingly stable, easily worked and takes a glass-like finish. Most important, it’s highly resonant with fabulous projection, great sustain and rich harmonic development.
You know Pistachio nuts and ice cream, but wait till you see and hear a Pistachio mandolin..! The wood is very dense and hard, with a bright, crisp sound. The colors include a kaleidoscope of green, red, white, and tan to dark brown. Due to the small size of these trees, instrument size stock will always be very limited and provides a unique tonewood option for your next flat top Mandolin.
Myrtlewood tonewood is a stellar choice for flat top Mandolin back & side sets and necks. It yields magnificent sound, with some of the sweetest harmonic development to be heard. Easily fashioned to a lustrous finish, Myrtlewood Mandolins look as sweet as they sound. This rare deciduous evergreen is also known as California Laurel.
Douglas fir tonewood is becoming recognized for generating outstanding projection, sustain and harmonic development. These characteristics can greatly improve the sound your next Mandolin. It’s extremely stable wood and takes a great finish. Builders using Douglas fir tonewood claim it makes the finest sounding Mandolins they’ve ever heard.
Claro Walnut tonewood is a great option for flat top Mandolin back & side sets and necks. Rich warm sound, bold and clear, with superb harmonics best describe Walnuts’ tonal qualities. We air dry all of our stock to achieve the best colors, structural and tonal characteristics. Easily fashioned, Claro Walnut will yield visually stunning Mandolins.
Western Bigleaf Maple is the preferred mandolin tonewood for back and side sets by many luthiers and players seeking traditional mandolin sound. The curly (fiddleback) and somewhat rarer quilted figure yield beautiful instruments. Janka hardness is approximately 850 and it is known to take a nice finish.