hi! well this is my personal mandola that i want sell: it is unique in the world:
Year: 2007  seasoned wood! perfect action
33 fluted maple ribs
Tortoise's style around the neck, laterals strep, binding, pickplate : gold sheet under  the tortoiseshell of the neck:
Gilded machine head Schaller 24ct
Rosewood harmguard
maple headstock
Suspended arch form brace! my special brace system
Handmade tailpiece
Long fingerboard in ebony.
this mandola was used from the famous mandolin player Emanuele buzi and brother during a tour in japan. the sound is on:  

ALSO: LOOKING FOR DEALER; BUSINESS MAN TO OPEN with me, ONE SHOP OF MANDOLINS, VIOLINS, CLASSIC GUITAR  all Hand made , and vintage instruments coming from Italy,     IN JAPAN, KOREA, CINA  send me email for info and contacts.Also: for all my intruments the return is ever possible but privately: i will refund the money personally after deducted all shipping price and custom fee if there are, and after received the instruments and verified that is all OK. so the shipping of the returns is to your charge and insurance also.  my word is important for me. of course if you will pay some custom fee i cannot refund its, and i cannot refund also the custom fee that perhaps i have to pay to receive the instruments back, but if you write that is a return i think that there are not custom fee to pay...however there are severals way to do it...
call me  for info ..however my shipping are full insured, and my parcels are in wood of 1cm of thickness glued nailed and sealed! very safety shipping. Ps: please visit also my facebook page if you like to see others models, or if you like do a Course on the mandolin making construction with neapolitan thecniques  
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