Check out the specs on this mandolin; they read like those of a mandolin costing much more. Chiefly, the fact that it is constructed of all solid wood distinguishes it in its price range. It features a solid spruce top, and a maple back and sides. It additionally has a radiused ebony fretboard with traditional inlays and an adjustable radiused bridge, gold-plated hardware, bone nut, cast-brass tailpiece and Grover tuning machine-heads.