Friday 12 August 2011

Vintage 1960s Kent electric mandolin

guitarz.blogspot.com:
One of the things that we have to look out for on eBay is that sellers - especially those buying from estate sales, house clearances, etc - very often don't have the first clue about what they are selling. Take for instance this auction where the seller accurately tells us that this is a Kent model #744 because that is what it says on a sticker on the back of the headstock, but doesn't actually appreciate what that means and describes it as a "Kent short electric guitar".

Unfortunately the photos of the item in question give very little indication of scale, but to us at least, the 8 strings and rather compact body design should give away that this is in fact an electric mandolin. The Kent 744 is a Japanese mando, built in a factory near Tokyo, and in fact uses a longer than usual scale for a mandolin so that it is somewhere inbetween a mandolin and a mandola.

For more information please check this page at the excellent eMando.com website, where if you scroll down you'll also see a photo of Neve Campbell with a left-handed example of this Kent mando, giving a very nice indication of scale.

G L Wilson

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3 comments:

  1. I have that mandolin right here in my guitar shop. It is going under the knife tonight as a full restoration for a client of mine. Only now it doesn't have the tail cover and the bridge was changed at some point. It has all the same blems and marks and mismatched knobs.

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  2. I have that mandolin right here in my guitar shop. It is going under the knife tonight as a full restoration for a client of mine. Only now it doesn't have the tail cover and the bridge was changed at some point. It has all the same blems and marks and mismatched knobs.

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  3. I want one. sab.464@hotmail.com if you have one for sale, hit me up

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