Based in Denver, CO, iii mandolin is a one-man shop producing hand crafted, high quality strginged instruments. While my focus is mandolin family instruments and small body archtop guitars, I also build concert and tenor ukuleles and various electric instruments. If you are in the market for a unique experience and a custom instrument built to the highest standards of tone, quality and playability, learn more about it here and reach out to see what I can do for you!

Every iii mandolin is a custom experience. 

I have been building stringed instruments since the fall of 2003. I work through every part and detail of a build with the customer before starting to build and keep in frequent communication throughout the process.

I use the best materials available to pair with the goals of the customer in tone and aesthetics. I can customize just about anything for a mandolin and bring years of experience to guide decisions on practicality, tone and playability. 90% of what I build are custom orders, 10% are speculative builds experimenting in design or process.

I mainly build A and F model mandolins, guitar-bodied archtop octave mandolins and small body archtop guitars. 

Customer Reviews:

"#17 continues to be the love of my life...I cannot offer enough praise to you for #17- she inspires me constantly. I actually find it almost impossible to walk by the instrument without at least trying a few runs of whatever is currently in my head AND, practice is FUN." - Joel in KY

"I recently had Geoff help me out with a setup on a mandola. He actually walked me through everything that he planned on doing ahead of time and checked in during the process. He was very prompt, having it done in less than 48 hours. Of course the best part is that he was able to get the mandola sounding much better than I had anticipated. I would highly recommend his work to others." - Mark in CO