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Specifications: |
8-string Mandolin. |
Arched top & back. |
Body width: 260 mm. |
Hand carved top & back. |
Spruce top with undetermined bracing. |
Flame maple back & sides. |
Single-bound top with unbound f-holes. |
Single-bound back. |
Single-bound pickguard. |
Single-bound headstock. |
Flame maple neck with non-adjustable T-shaped duraluminum truss rod. |
Single-bound ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl diamond inlay. |
Nickel plated tuners. |
Sunburst finish. |
Ten year warranty. |
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Introduced: Circa 1937 |
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Circa 19??: |
Slanted block fingerboard inlay. |
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Circa 1942: |
Walnut or flame maple back & sides. |
Changed tailpiece design. |
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Earliest known example: 133591 (1942) |
134748 (1942) |
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Circa 1942: |
Walnut neck. |
Rosewood fingerboard with pearloid diamond inlay. |
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Circa 1947: |
Replaced by |
Model 41 King. |
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Latest known example: 197667 (1948) |
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