Description of Tanglewood Master Design Mandolin

In collaboration with the renowned Scandinavian luthier Michael Sanden, MasterDesign by Sanden represents the zenith of Tanglewood guitar manufacturing. Michael builds luxury boutique guitars at his workshop in Southern Sweden and has designed a range of guitars and mandolins incorporating some of his most functional and stylistic handcrafted features.

All solid sapele construction with unique flat top design and vintage sunburst finish.

About our Mandolins

Our instruments come with a full professional set-up!

We never send instruments out straight from the box. Some of the less expensive folk instuments come from the factory set-up up poorly and strung up with cheap inferior strings. When the instruments arrive at the shop we replace the strings with a much higher quality set and give the instrument a full set-up, making all adjustments necessary so that the instrument plays as well as possible.

Things included in the set-up are: New strings, neck relief, action at nut and bridge, intonation and fret profiling.

We also restring all of our mandolins with a fresh set of strings before dispatch (11 gauge on most mandolins, 10 guage on beginner models).

Your mandolin will be delivered to you setup, tuned and ready to play!