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At A Glance

Body Shape
A-style body
Bracing
X Bracing
Top
Spruce top
Back & Sides
Sapele back & Sapele sides
Neck
Okoume
Fretboard
Purpleheart
Bridge
Purpleheart
Body Binding
Ivory
Tuning Machine
Chrome Mandolin tuners
Number of Frets
20
Saddle Material
Purpleheart
Strings
Bronze strings
String Space
10mm
Pickup
Magnetic single pickup
Output Jack
1/4" output
Finish Top
Gloss (Open Pore for OVS)
Finish Back And Sides
Gloss (Open Pore for OVS)
Finish Neck Back
Gloss (Open Pore for OVS)
Scale
350mm
A : Width
30mm at NUT
B : Width
40mm at 14F
C : Thickness
22mm at 1F
D : Thickness
24.5mm at 7F
Radius
Flat
A : Length
13 1/2"
B : Width
10 3/4"
C : Max Depth
2"
Finish
Open Pore Vintage Sunburst
Description

Ibanez built the M510EOVS as an A-style acoustic-electric mandolin, finished in Open Pore Vintage Sunburst. It sat within Ibanez's entry-to-mid-level mandolin range, offering an electrified instrument for players who needed to amplify in live settings without departing from a traditional A-style platform.

The body pairs a spruce top braced in an X pattern with sapele back and sides, all finished in an open-pore treatment on this OVS variant rather than a full gloss. The neck is okoume, meeting a purpleheart fretboard across 20 frets with a flat radius and a 30mm nut width. Scale length runs 350mm. The bridge and saddle are also purpleheart, and ivory body binding trims the body perimeter. A magnetic single pickup routes signal to a 1/4" output jack. Chrome mandolin tuners handle the eight bronze strings, with 10mm string spacing at the bridge. Neck dimensions measure 22mm thickness at the first fret, deepening to 24.5mm at the seventh.

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