Blank mandolin chord charts
Empty chord boxes laid out for mandolin — four courses drawn as four lines, five frets deep to allow for the stretches fifths tuning demands.
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Four courses, drawn as four lines
A mandolin has eight strings in four doubled courses, and both strings of a course are always fretted together — so the diagrams show four lines rather than eight, exactly as a ukulele does. The doubling affects the sound and the pressure your left hand needs, not the shape you are being asked to make. Drawing eight lines would only make the chart harder to read.
Tuned in fifths, which changes everything
Mandolin tuning is GDAE, the same as a violin — fifths rather than the fourths that guitar and ukulele use. Chord shapes are consequently narrow and often span four frets, and guitar shapes transfer not at all. Five frets per diagram rather than four leaves room for those stretches without the shape running off the bottom of the box.
Chop chords and closed shapes
Most rhythm mandolin in bluegrass uses closed three- and four-finger shapes with no open strings, played as a percussive chop on the backbeat. Because they are closed, a single shape covers all twelve keys by moving up the neck — so a page of diagrams with the fret position written beside each is far more useful than a page of open chords ever is.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.