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Mandolin

The Loar LM-590

Name: The Loar LM-590
Brand: The Loar

The Loar · LM-590 F-Style

Price: 637 EUR – 682 EUR

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Availability: 2/10 (Very rare)

A hand-carved solid spruce and figured maple F-style with a rounded V-shaped neck and Padauk fingerboard, positioned by The Loar as its Contemporary series rather than the vintage-reverent finish of its 300-series models.

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About the The Loar LM-590

The LM-590 uses solid, hand-carved spruce over solid figured maple back and sides, the same core recipe as The Loar's entry LM-310F, but at a longer 13.9-inch scale and with a rounded V-shaped maple neck profile - a rounder, fuller feel than the thin V used on the LM-310F, aimed at players who find a very thin neck fatiguing over long sessions. The fingerboard is Padauk with a flat extension beyond the 20th of its 20 frets rather than a floating extension.

Hardware includes nickel tuners with ivory-colored buttons, a bone nut at 1.12 inches, and an adjustable ebony bridge. The "Contemporary" designation in The Loar's naming distinguishes it from the brand's vintage-reissue-styled models: satin tobacco sunburst finish and mother-of-pearl dot inlays rather than the antiqüd varnish and abalone flowerpot ornamentation of higher-tier vintage-look Loar mandolins.

Where to buy

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Sound character of the The Loar LM-590

Same solid spruce-over-maple recipe and Padauk fingerboard as The Loar's entry LM-310F, so a similarly bright, resonant F-style voice with attack slightly softened compared to an ebony board. The rounded V neck and figured-maple cosmetics change feel and looks, not the underlying tone.

Bright Resonant Warm

Technical data for the The Loar LM-590

Top	Solid spruce, hand-carved
Back/Sides	Solid figured maple
Neck	Maple, rounded V
Fretboard	Padauk
Frets	20
Scale length	13.9"
Nut width	1.12"

Price history for the The Loar LM-590

Cheapest seen: 637 EUR · Most expensive seen: 682 EUR

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The history of the The Loar LM-590

The LM-590 sits in The Loar's mid-range, aimed at players who want the brand's hand-carved solid-wood construction without either the budget-tier neck profile of the LM-310F or the vintage cosmetic ornamentation of its top-tier models.