Description
- Top: Adirondack (Red) Spruce
- Sides / Back / Neck: Highly figured 2-piece, quarter sawn Sugar Maple from Vermont or Michigan
- Tailpiece: Nickel-plated engraved Bill James
- Nut Width: 1-1/8″
- String Spacing: 1.5″
- Neck Shape: Soft V
- Fingerboard Radius: 5.7″ at nut, 7.7″ at 20th fret
- Tuners: Waverly tuners with ebony buttons
- Binding: Side or Top triple bound
- Pick Guard: Bound ebony
- Bridge / Fingerboard Material: Premium Ebony
- Finish Material: Shellac finish with French polished top layers.
- Finish Color: Cremona Burst, meticulously hand-shaded
- Tone Bar Construction: 2 Bar
- Scale Length: 13-7/8″ (front edge of E string)
- Inlay: Mop dots and headstock logo
- Tailpiece: Gilchrist tailpiece (as of late 2020)
- Case: Airloom “Deluxe”
- Construction: Built collaboratively between the Northfield shops in Marshall, Michigan and Qingdao, China
- Northfield Says: “We wanted a specific voicing. We wanted the toughness and clarity in projection, within a band context. We’d heard this perfected by a handful of instruments: a 1922 F5, an amazing reproduction of that instrument made by Mike Kemnitzer that we acquired a couple years ago, Mike Marshall’s F5, and one of our own Artist Series mandolins. We borrowed, we modified, we built examples and we recorded extensively in a variety of settings. We prepared instruments for Mike Marshall’s on-the-job experimenting (and thrashing…we love you Mike) and he took it to them, hard. After every instrument we’d gather comments, make some tweaks and hold our breath. After a couple years of testing we know we have something different and worth reporting on. “
