2022 Apitius Club Jazz Carved-Top Archtop Acoustic/Electric Mandolin

Above: electric video

Above: acoustic video

Hoo, baby! Is that all I can say about this? I mean, probably! It's tip-top, high-class, curvaceously-gorgeous, cut clean, and cut well. If you're browsing this you may already know that these mandolins are the bee's knees in upper-crust jazz-mandolin society. Or -- maybe not? In any case, this is one of the headliners of that school.

This mandolin has "Club Jazz" on the headstock inlay but it's really appointed somewhere between the Apitius Yorkville model (cream of the crop) and the normal Club Jazz model. It's got the unbound f-holes of the Club Jazz but a fretboard inlay pattern that's even fancier than the Yorkville's standard pattern. It's a neat blend of styles that are very deco and it sounds like a million bucks both unplugged and plugged-in. I'm shocked, to be honest, with how close the magnetic pickup sounds like the acoustic sound of the instrument. It's sort-of uncanny.

Oh, and, the beautiful blonde finish -- revealing all the flamed maple on the back and sides -- doesn't hurt, either!

Repairs included: a very light setup.

• Weight: 2 lbs 3 oz
• Scale length: 14"
• Nut width: 1 1/8"
• Neck shape: medium V
• Board radius: 10"
• Body width: 10"
• Body depth: 1 3/4"
• Top wood: solid carved spruce
• Back & sides wood: solid flamed maple
• Bracing type: tonebar
• Bridge: ebony
• Fretboard: ebony
• Neck wood: maple
• Action height at 12th fret: hair-under 1/16" (fast, spot-on)
• String gauges: 34w-10 or similar Thomastik flatwound
• Truss rod: adjustable
• Neck relief: straight
• Fret style: medium (EVO Gold?)

Condition notes: it's basically new with just the lightest playwear in evidence and mostly on the pickup cover.

It comes with: is original hard case.

Consignor tag: MBu