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Originally Posted by Shaneh
I cant bring myself to pay the price but man I love the octave mandolin with the guitar body. Best I have played but also $4-5K. Too much for a niche instrument to me. but man they sound amazing
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There are other, less expensive options for guitar bodied mando instruments.
Goldtone has a pretty well received guitar bodied mandocello.
Eastman has been making a guitar bodied mandocello for some time. I don't know what they run now, but I got mine for about $1400 several years ago. Here is an example of it strung as an octave.
I also have a luthier friend,
Tom Jessen, who has built several A, F and guitar bodied octaves (scroll down the link a little to see one).