Rally F-4 Style Mandolin- ON HOLD - *SOLD* £200 Hastings

[Jus Lukin]

Rally F-4 style Mandolin, all carved, solid maple. 'Scroll' styling with oval soundhole, fitted hard foam case, spare set of strings, and truss-rod adjuster. Has a lovely sweet, round tone, with plummy plectrum attack, and beautiful rich figuring to the wood, which I am not able to capture with my phone and poor photography skills!

Nut width is 28mm, and while checking I realised that the case has two zip heads, but one is missing its pull-tag.

 

I'm happy to post, will update with a price for courier within the UK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 5, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Shaggy]

I have too many mandolins, but this looks really nice........haven’t heard of the make, I assume Far Eastern?

[Jus Lukin]

On 18/12/2021 at 14:01, Shaggy said:

I have too many mandolins, but this looks really nice........haven’t heard of the make, I assume Far Eastern?

 

Quite likely, although possibly Romanian. I think it is the same as the various brands currently available, such as Ozark, Eastman, Kentucky, etc.

[pete.young]

Rally instruments, the high-end range such as this one, were made through a combination of Dae Won Instruments from Korea and Dalian Da Yuan in China. The same factory in China also made high end instruments for Ozark, Ashbury, Kentucky, Morgan Monroe and Pilgrim amongst others.  Dae Won has now closed down and their website, www.straus.co.kr has disappaeared, since some time in 2017 according to the wayback machine. It seems that no-one else has taken over from Dae Won so most of the brands have lost their high-end signature product lines.

 

I have a Rally DFM90 which is similar to this but with F-holes and an ebony fingerboard. It's a really great instrument. I'm sure this one is too.

[Bunion]

Lovely looking, I had an old mandolin years ago I wonder what happened to it? 
Seeing this has made me want one again 🤣😂

[Jus Lukin]

1 minute ago, Bunion said:

Lovely looking, I had an old mandolin years ago I wonder what happened to it? 
Seeing this has made me want one again 🤣😂

Well, you know where to find me if it's missing! 😄

[Bunion]

7 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

Well, you know where to find me if it's missing!

My mandolin skills don’t run to £200 🤣😂 but I have been up the loft and found my Reghin Romanian beater worth probably £10 

 

bit dusty but it still makes a noise 😄

 

showcases yours beautifully as worth the money  your asking GLWTS 

[Jus Lukin]

2 minutes ago, Bunion said:

My mandolin skills don’t run to £200 🤣😂 but I have been up the loft and found my Reghin Romanian beater worth probably £10 

 

bit dusty but it still makes a noise 😄

 

showcases yours beautifully as worth the money  your asking GLWTS 

Lovely!

 

Thanks for that, this one was £350 new a few years back- now priced to sell!

[Thunderbird]

To complex for me but it looks cool as f##k glwts 

[surfguy13]

Just wondering what the nut width is?  I'm guessing it's 30mm......

[Jus Lukin]

2 hours ago, surfguy13 said:

Just wondering what the nut width is?  I'm guessing it's 30mm......

 

28mm!