Brunkalla Mandolin #3

Martin Brunkalla made this mandolin about 5 years ago. He is an excellent luthier in Marengo IL, who was persuaded to try his hand at mandolins after a successful career making violins. A member of the band Tripping Lily (Boston) commissioned the first one, and another member got the third one (this). Eventually it comes to me. I drove from Victoria BC to Cape Cod MA to get it and am not disappointed. In fact I am thrilled. The top is Sitka spruce, from a tree that fell in the Olympic Rain Forest which was found to be over 1200 years old.