Description of Fylde Touchstone Cedar Mandolin

Touchstone mandolin from Fylde. This model was originally made as a special model for Scayles, like the standard Touchstone model but with a solid cedar top. The mandolin is made from a solid cedar top matched with solid mahogany back and sides, ebony fingerboard and bridge. Fylde Instruments are handmade in the UK from the finest solid woods.

Here's what Fylde say about their standard Touchstone model -

About our Mandolins

Our instruments come with a full professional set-up!

We never send instruments out straight from the box. Some of the less expensive folk instuments come from the factory set-up up poorly and strung up with cheap inferior strings. When the instruments arrive at the shop we replace the strings with a much higher quality set and give the instrument a full set-up, making all adjustments necessary so that the instrument plays as well as possible.

Things included in the set-up are: New strings, neck relief, action at nut and bridge, intonation and fret profiling.

We also restring all of our mandolins with a fresh set of strings before dispatch (11 gauge on most mandolins, 10 guage on beginner models).

Your mandolin will be delivered to you setup, tuned and ready to play!