Epiphone and Gibson Custom Collaborate on an Exceptional Mandolin
Orville Gibson invented the modern mandolin, and mandolins have been a part of Epiphone’s DNA since its earliest days. Company founder Anastasios Stathopoulo’s first (and only) patent, filed in 1909, was for a mandolin. Gibson Master Luthier Lloyd Loar designed the original F-5 mandolin in the early 1920s, and its eventual success even led to the creation of new musical genres, such as bluegrass. Now, Epiphone has collaborated with the Gibson Custom Shop on the new F-5G. Epiphone’s finest mandolin model to date, this exceptional Inspired by Gibson Custom instrument is a faithful recreation of the time-honored original. It features all solid wood construction with a figured maple back and sides and a solid Sitka spruce top. The figured maple neck has an ebony fretboard with a compound radius (10” at the nut, 12” at the end of the fretboard) and an F-style scroll headstock with vintage-style tuners with pearloid buttons. Ornate touches include the three-ply top binding, mother-of-pearl “The Epiphone” and flowerpot headstock inlays, and the rich Cremona Sunburst finish. Whether you’re playing rhythmic chops or lead lines, its tone is balanced, deep, and resonant, with great carrying power. A vintage-style rectangular hardshell case is also included.
Specifications
Body Specs
Back: Solid Figured Maple
Binding: 3-ply Top, Single-ply Fretboard; Ivory
Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
Body Material: Solid Figured Maple
Body Shape: F-Style Mandolin
Body Styles: F-Style
Side: Solid Figured Maple
Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
Neck Specs
Fingerboard Material: Ebony
Fingerboard Radius: 1.0mm / 0.04in
Fret Count: 23
Frets: Narrow Medium
Inlays: Mother of Pearl Dot
Joint: Glued In, Dovetail Joint
Neck Material: Figured Maple
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 28.58mm / 1.13in
Profile: C
Scale Length: 350.0mm / 13.78in
Hardware Specs
Bridge: Standard Adjustable and Compensated Mandolin, Ebony
Finish: Nickel
Pickguard: None
Saddle Material: Ebony
Strap Buttons: 1 - At Tailpiece
Tailpiece: Modern Cast
Truss Rod: Adjustable
Truss Rod Cover: Two-ply, Two-hole, Black
Tuning Machines: Vintage F-style Inline with Pearloid Button
Misc Specs
Case: Vintage Rectangular-style Black Hardshell with Green Interior
Model:EIGCMF5GCRBNH1
Headstock: Gibson F-Style Scroll
Headstock Inlay: The Epiphone and Flowerpot in Mother of Pearl
