Northfield F5s
Northfield instruments offer serious mandolin players a beautifully built, excellent-sounding, highly detailed traditional F5 at a price-point that, while not inexpensive, is significantly less than anything comparable. Folkway Music is proud to be Northfield's exclusive Canadian dealer.
A small company with a grand total of 7 owner/employees (at the time of this writing), Northfield is highly committed to building excellent sounding, and meticulously well made mandolins. That they are now offered at Folkway Music is hopefully all the testimony required!
The F5s is a simply appointed instrument in order to keep pricing in check, but is built to the same exacting specifications as Northfield's more expensive master-models. The mandolin features figured hand-graduated hard maple back and sides and master-grade red spruce top, traditional tobacco sunburst lacquer satin finish, ivoroid-bound top and unbound back. The neck features a radiussed ebony fingerboard with scooped end, fiddleback maple with 1920's carve, and a very tasteful fine inlay around the headstock's perimeter. Bound ebony finger rest, cast tailpiece, Loar-style adjustable bridge, bone nut, and Schaller tuners.
Each F5s is offered with a high-quality formed hardshell case
Individual instruments may vary slightly in appearance
A small company with a grand total of 7 owner/employees (at the time of this writing), Northfield is highly committed to building excellent sounding, and meticulously well made mandolins. That they are now offered at Folkway Music is hopefully all the testimony required!
The F5s is a simply appointed instrument in order to keep pricing in check, but is built to the same exacting specifications as Northfield's more expensive master-models. The mandolin features figured hand-graduated hard maple back and sides and master-grade red spruce top, traditional tobacco sunburst lacquer satin finish, ivoroid-bound top and unbound back. The neck features a radiussed ebony fingerboard with scooped end, fiddleback maple with 1920's carve, and a very tasteful fine inlay around the headstock's perimeter. Bound ebony finger rest, cast tailpiece, Loar-style adjustable bridge, bone nut, and Schaller tuners.
Each F5s is offered with a high-quality formed hardshell case
Individual instruments may vary slightly in appearance