Description of Fylde Touchstone Walnut Custom Mandolin

Over years of cutting English Walnut for the Alchemist and Magician, Fylde have a lot of undersize sets of lovely timber, and they haven’t made mandolins with cedar soundboards for a long time, so here we are, a new mandolin model. Very sweet and warm sounding, charming in every way.

English Walnut back and sides,Western Red Cedar top, Honduras Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard and bridge, gold plated Gotoh tuners, Rosewood bindings, marquetry purfling front.

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!