A few years ago a piano repairman reached out to us to see if we were interested in a piano soundboard. A grand piano from the early 1900s had to be removed from a basement in town and the only way to remove it was to chop it up. He hated to see the wood go to waste so he brought us all the spruce he could harvest from it. We made this mandolin from it a few years ago and kept it around as a “shop” instrument to see how it would hold up. The spruce was too narrow to make our traditional two piece book matched top, so this top is comprised of four pieces. We paired it up with some ziricote sides and back and kept it around the shop for a few years to make sure it didn’t explode. Held up great, looks fantastic. It has been played a good deal by random people hence the gently used price