Kentucky KM-270 A Style Mandolin - Vintage Sunburst

Based on classic instruments of the early 20th century, this A-style mandolin features a carved spruce top, carved maple back and sides, and an oval sound hole for warm, sustaining tone. Stylish appointments include an ornate peghead inlay and a sunburst nitrocellulose finish.

• Solid, handcarved and graduated spruce top
• Solid, handcarved and graduated maple back and sides
• Authentic, vintage 1920s-style body design
• Traditional oval soundhole
• One-piece maple neck with dovetail neck/body joint at the 14th fret
• Rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl dot position markers
• Fingerboard bound in white ABS
• Vintage-correct raised pickguard of laminated black/white/black ABS with beveled edge and vintage-style attachment hardware
• Snakehead rosewood peghead with rosewood overlay depicting a vintage Wreath design and Kentucky logo script in white pearl
• Vintage-style, adjustable rosewood bridge with small adjustment wheels
• Traditional 2-screw black truss rod cover
• Bone nut
• 13 7/8-inch scale length
• 22 highly-polished nickel silver frets
• Nickel-plated tailpiece and coverplate with Kentucky script and leather insert
• High-quality tuning machines with accurate 18:1 gear ratio and plastic buttons
• High-gloss nitrocellulose vintage sunburst finish