Electric Mandolins (emandos)

I've always enjoyed making the occasional solid bodied instrument; I like the sculptural process of shaping a large solid piece of wood by hand. So, it's only natural that I find myself building e-mandos. An electric, solid body mandolin offers a robust alternative to an acoustic instrument for the gigging musician or an interesting variation for the player who wants a different voice.

There are many possible designs and here you can see some of mine, including 4 and 8 string octave mandolin variants.

Ash/Cocobolo/Maple

humbucker & piezo pick-ups with stereo output

Maple/Rosewood

humbucker & piezo pick-ups with stereo output

Black walnut left handed version 

humbucker & piezo pick-ups with stereo output

Ash/Maple

 Twin humbucker & piezo pick-ups with stereo output

Left-handed Figured Sapele/ash/maple

 Twin humbucker & piezo pick-ups with stereo output

Octave E-mando  

Wenge/Mahogany/ebony

4 string Octave E-mando  

Wenge/Mahogany/ebony

Sycamore and cocobolo, single humbucker, adjustable bridge

Chambered body electric mandolin #1:

Carved spruce top with Koa back & sides

The chambered body is designed to enhance the natural resonance of the emando and you can see its internal construction (and other details of how I built this emando) in a series of YouTube videos.

Solid body, Tasmanian Blackwood with Bird’s eye maple neck.

Twin humbuckers

Chambered body electric mandolin #2:

Carved spruce top with English walnut back & sides

The chambered body is designed to enhance the natural resonance of the emando and you can see its internal construction (and other details of how I built this emando) in a series of videos

Chambered Body Electric mandolin #3

English walnut back & sides, Sitka spruce top