Example Mandolins

Pricing of the McClanahan Mandolins are based on a list of standard items enhanced with selections of customizations not limited by the lists below.

The following item are standard for all McClanahan Models

  1. Curly Maple for the back, sides, and neck
  2. Red Spruce for the top
  3. Ebony Loar style bridge
  4. Hand Engraved Loar style tailpiece
  5. Ebony end pin
  6. Radiused Ebony fingerboard with pearl dots
  7. Pearl McClanahan
  8. Bone nut & tips
  9. Keys: Shaller
  10. Ebony veneers
  11. TKL rectangle case
  12. Frets: w-053, c-037, t-054
  13. Traditional Dove Tail joint

The Witness

  1. McClanahan in pearl - without insignia
  2. Fingerboard - unbound
  3. Top: bound - single ply binding
  4. Back: unbound

Price: $3000.00

The Descending Dove

  1. McClanahan in pearl - without insignia
  2. Fingerboard - unbound
  3. Top: bound - single ply binding
  4. Back: unbound

Price: $3500.00


The Via Dolorosa

  1. McClanahan in pearl - with insignia
  2. Fingerboard - unbound
  3. Top: bound - single ply
  4. Back: bound-single ply

Price: $3800.00

The Trinity

  1. McClanahan in pearl - with insignia
  2. Peg head - bound
  3. Fingerboard - bound
  4. Top: bound-single ply with Herringbone trim and side purfling
  5. Back:bound-single ply with side purfling

Price: $4500.00


Color choices: Honey Burst, Cremona, Vintage Amber, Antique Natural, Rugby, Natural, and Tobacco burst.

To maintain the cosmetic integrity of each mandolin, all substitutions and upgrades must be compliant to the proportions of the instrument as a whole.

*Three levels of aging are offered and the pricing is as follows: 30yr. Antiqued $200.00, 50 yr. Antiqued with scroll wear $300.00, and 80 yr. Antiqued with Laquer checking, neck wear, scroll wear, finger rest wear, and arm rest wear $500.00 (see examples of aging in the Gallery)

**Will apply Aging to your personal instrument for a charge of $500.00