The Tacoma PK30 Mandcello is like any archtop guitar but is one half inch deeper. The Mandocello has a carved solid spruce top and carved maple back and sides laminated with highly figured koa wood. The guitar uses eight strings paired, like a mandolin, tuned to A-D-G-C. The one-piece maple neck has a 25.5 inch scale and an ebony fingerboard inlaid with abalone. Great for live work where, through amplification, a much fatter mandolin sound is required, the PK30 has a built-in passive EMG pickup letting you plug in like any electric guitar. You can also order the PK30E2 with Fishman Prefix Plus electronics. Other standard features are: Gotoh tuners, ivoroid bound body and neck, abalone soundhole ring, clear satin pickguard, graphtech saddle and rosewood bridge.