Be The FIRST To Hear This Mandolin! | Bourgeois M5F Review!

[@gottaflylee5521]

What a great sweet sound and look. I think they hit a home run with this one!

[@AcousticShoppe]

They definitely did!

[@steveyarbrough2300]

I love the tone and appearance. I’m glad Dana’s doing this.

[@chipwood5017]

Great job and it was a pleasure to meet all of you

[@davidrobinsonmusician]

Sounds good! What would be very helpful also is to see a comparison between the Bourgeois and a Northfield NF-F5s which is the only other good quality F style mandolin on the market in that price range that I’m aware of.

[@AcousticShoppe]

That’s a good idea, we can put that on our to do list. We would love to get some Northfields in here, even just for reviews!

[@packardlamont1314]

Would definitely love that comparison, as well!

[@SamFugarino]

Couldn't resist any longer. Can't wait until it comes.

[@AcousticShoppe]

Congrats!

[@howardmakely2169]

Jeremy could make a torrified toilet seat sound great, however I would buy a Bourgeois F5 if I was 50 years younger. Thanks for another good review!

[@carole8312]

😂 Agree!

[@magnusmacsween5322]

I have a wondrous Eastman 814. I think I would like this even better because of the wider nut, but slightly prefer the open, woody sound of the 814. I think this is very likely a great instrument. I'd love to hear a shout-out with some of the others in its class. Love the blonde.

[@packardlamont1314]

I heard there is also going to be a black edition. Any estimates on release dates of either?

[@AcousticShoppe]

Bourgeois is going to have more information on those models at NAMM & we’ll be trying them out this week but yes! There is a Blacktop in the A-Style at least. Stay turned for more information, we’ll be live-streaming at the Bourgeois booth this week!

[@Mandolin1944]

Very neat development -- although does the world really need yet another choice on an F-5! 😂🤣😂 Still even if we do not NEED another choice -- what can it hurt? It is a very handsome and tasteful design -- the colors are just right. The last mandolin I made is amber and that so beats doing a sunburst -- especially trying to sunburst on a porous wood like spruce? I think if you measure that nut will be 1 3/16" I heard 1 3/8" and 1 3/32" mentioned in the video. I think 1 3/16" is what it is?

[@AcousticShoppe]

The official spec on the nut width is 1 5/32"!

[@FunsongsMusicByPeterRahill]

24th subscriber LIKE, 260th desktop view to be the first to hear this blonde bombshell of a mandolin. Would that be like "The Marilyn 'Monroe'..." model? I think that for most ears-opinion, a tone-sample really needs to be a side-by-side comparison with other 'similar' models. 2 cents.

[@luvbgrass]

I'm sure its a nice build. I personally don't like blond mandolins, or banjos, but some people do of course. Northfield does make one in that price range. I know you would need side by side comparison, but I think Northfield might have that one beat on tone. Maybe not. 🙃

[@SamFugarino]

Want one!

[@Plorzie]

I’d like to have one in green💚

[@f5mando]

Don’t freak out, peeps- I’m sure that Jeremy meant to say that the nut width is 1 3/16” not 1 3/8”! I wonder how it compares to the sound and feel of your Gibson SB….

[@luvbgrass]

That's what I was thinking also. Probably 1-3/16". I just caught he said 1-3/32" later in the video'

[@AcousticShoppe]

The official spec is actually 1 5/32"!

[@f5mando]

@@AcousticShoppe Aha! Gilchrist nut spec, then..! Noice. In between 1 1/8" and 1 3/16"

[@luvbgrass]

@@AcousticShoppe I like the wider nut also.

[@williamfleming892]

What is the word you’re saying. “Tourified”? Is that the wood as opposed to sitka or Adirondack?

[@AcousticShoppe]

Torrefaction is a treatment done to wood to get a different sound out of the instrument. In the acoustic world, builders use the treatment to get a more "vintage" tone out of the instrument they're building. So this mandolin, for example has an Adirondack top and Maple Back/Sides that have been all treated with torrefaction. They do the treatment before carving/working with the wood, then they make the instrument. There's a lot more that goes into the process than what I can explain honestly but I hope that helps!

[@excoginate]

How does this compare to an 815V ... I'm trying to decide between those two

[@AcousticShoppe]

They are quite different in comparison considering that the Bourgeois is a poly finish, wider nut, and thermo cured. The 815v has a darker and thicker tone, meanwhile the M5F is more articulate and benefits the most from being played in.

[@cfmartin568]

So is the mandolin partly built in Lewiston? Or what?

[@AcousticShoppe]

They are build by Eastman to Dana Bourgeois' spec, but there are hopes to make higher end ones in the US.

[@StanHall007]

That’s a pretty little thing!

[@hampshirepiano6383]

Solid wood SB?

[@Mandolin1944]

oh of course it would be solid woods -- this is a Bourgeois...

[@AcousticShoppe]

Absolutely!

[@patfitzsimons5462]

Does it have tone bar bracing?

[@AcousticShoppe]

Yes.

[@KevinBenjaminMusic]

PLZ make a Lefty Version 😢 would be Instant Buy For me

[@USNAVDC]

Not a fan of the color of than mandolin, but it sure sounds good, but to my ears; the Bourgeois M5A Blacktop Mandolin sounds a lot better.

[@RantzBizGroup]

Are these made in China?

[@AcousticShoppe]

They are made in Eastman's factory but set up in the US.

[@edgarlincoln9459]

finally played it, sounds weak and cheap.

[@daveburch947]

Beautiful instrument. With that said, it sounds just too much like an eastman. It lacks volume and punch. Trebles are too thin and tinny. Dana is a premier luthier. Hopefully, he will get this ironed out with eastman to produce a mandolin that has a professional sound on par with northfield. They aren’t there yet, but being a prototype I bet Dana will get the sound quality ironed out for eastman to produce an instrument to compete with northfield. This prototype isn’t going to do that! Absolutely beautiful instrument though.