(NEW) This might be our sweetest Honeybee yet! Troublesome Creek are a wonderful non-profit luthiery school and shop that trains and employs people in recovery to create well designed, affordable handmade instruments. Their instruments are made with excellent locally-sourced tonewoods, and are lightly built with a mix of classic style and modern flare. The Honeybee looks like a flat-top or "pancake" mandolin, but they've actually put a very subtle arch into the top via the bracing, and this produces a more robust, more complex sound.
The tonewood combo here is unusual but inspired: torrefied Adirondack has a quick response, dimensional stability and lots of volume. Figured walnut has a lot of the dry fundamental of mahogany, but with more sustain... and with more overtone than maple, usually utilized on mandolin family instruments. The tone profile is a bit more "folky" than an F-hole instrument, but has a certain richness to it. It's a pretty versatile little mando.
1 3/32" nut width, ebony fingerboard and bridge. Full gloss finish with ivoroid top binding, single-band rosette and fire stripe pickguard. Closed-back Kluson tuners with cream buttons. Includes TKL hard case.
Buying a Troublesome Creek instrument is rewarding in a lot of ways! We are proud to support this great cause.
Serial #126
AMW Price: $2,095 (Online checkout)
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