What is a Kentucky KH Dawg?

[telepbrman]

Hey, I found a Kentucky KH Dawg, is it a Mandolin, Mandola, it is only a photo, It is an "A" body $1200 bucks, any scoop, thanks, dy.

[Jim Garber]

I think it is a mandola but I would email that store to find out. Kentucky had an arrangement to produce a line of Monteleone designed instruments i assume with some arrangement with Grisman as well. I have a friend who has a grand artist style mandola. I think they came out in the 1980s and were pretty decent instruments, a cut above the usual Kentucky line.

Carmel Music (http://www.carmelmusic.com/stocklist/) has the KH1300 (Grand Artist) from 1984 for $3150.

Also more info here (http://www.vintagemandolin.com/kentuckyarticlepage5.html) in a review in Frets of the mandolin KM Dawg.

Jim

[f5loar]

The KH1300 was the copy of the Loar H5 mandola only with a flowerpot instead of Fern. $1300 new in mid 80's.
The KHDawg was an A model Fhole mandola also designed by Monteleone like the KMDawg model. $800 new in mid 80's
Both were very limited production and hard to find one today at any price. Made during Kentucky's peak period.
There was also a KH-600 Mandola which was more like a '23 A5 design at $700 in mid 80's. I use to own a KH1300 before I got my '24 H5 and it was a really nice top end mandola.

[f5loar]

PS: At $1200 I hope you have already bought it! That's a deal for that one. The KMDawg mandolins are in the $3000 range and they were only $1550 in the mid 80's. The KHDawg should be at least in the $1600 range or more due to it's rarity.

[Jim Garber]

The KH1300 was the copy of the Loar H5 mandola only with a flowerpot instead of Fern. $1300 new in mid 80's.
You are correct. I didn't look closely enough at the photos. I thought it was a grand artist style.

Jim

[telepbrman]

f5--You the man, I thank you for your input, I'll call the shop and check up on it....dy.

[GTison]

mandola! Got a friend with one. A style but w/ a Monte headstock

[f5loar]

A Kentucky with a Monte head? or a Monte mandola A?
The Kentucky KHDawg has the Monte head on it. That's one of the reasons it's worth $100 more than the KH600.

[Lefty&French]

Soory, couldn't resist... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Lefty&French]

So sorry! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[kudzugypsy]

i always thought that was the coolest photo of grisman (and the instruments aint bad either) - i use to have that brochure, but gave it to the guy who bought my kentucky dawg, as i thought they should stay together....wish i had kept it now!

[Lefty&French]

't was excerpt from one of Frets Magazine 198...
(Vanitas, vanitatis...) http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[MML]

$1200.00 for the A style mandola is a good deal, I have a DAWG model mandolin and I think its been one of the best all around mandolins I have had. Great workmanship playability and tone. I have been on the hunt myself for the elusive Dawg mandola A style with no luck.

[kudzugypsy]

someone had posted a while back about there only being 49 dawg mandolins built (this figure i believe came from desert rose) - i wonder how many dawg mandolas are around? i would be surprised if it were more than a dozen.
in the old frets magazine article - a photo actually shows a dawg mandocello - i wonder if that was a one-off for grisman for promoting the line?

[Charles Johnson]

I just sold a Kentucky Dawg F style mandocello earlier this year. Nice instrument. I understand only two were built, both for Grisman.

Charles Johnson

[James S]

Charles - Do you have pictures of the instrument?

Being an owner of a Kentucky Dawg mandolin, I would just love to see the other instruments people are talking about. If anyone has pictures, please post them. Maybe we can start a "Kentucky Dawg" journal; wouldn't be that extensive, but would be cool nontheless...

Lefty&French - Is there someway you could post that picture with better clarity? I assume it's blurry like that due to the size of the image. It would make a killer wallpaper for my desktop. Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks!

[Lefty&French]

Sure! I just need your Email...
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[John Flynn]

FYI, there is a DH Dawg A mando for sale at Music Folk in St. Louis for $1200.
http://www.musicfolk.com/docs....ndolins (http://www.musicfolk.com/docs/Instruments/UsedInstruments/mastergallery.php?gallery=Mandolins)

[ledmandlin]

As a number of us have already found out, the KH-Dawg was sold last week.

The search continues ....

[jim simpson]

Dawg-gone!

[kudzugypsy]

the last kh-dawg i remember seeing for sale was on the co-mando list about 5 years ago - i think the seller was asking $2500

...so, do any cafe members own one of these - we really should start a sumi-era kentucky photo archive. i had a km-dawg, but unfortunately didnt take any digial pics of it, as this was back when film cameras were still king.

[MML]

Heres a pic of my 84 DAWG, I posted a year or so ago.

[MML]

and the front

[f5loar]

Your photos look like porn shots.... you just want to show us the best parts. Can you show us the whole body?

[MML]

f5loar its funny you say that because I felt like an adult
photographer when taking them. A little to close and personal http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Lefty&French]

MML, did you receive my clearer (I hope) version of that DAWG mandolin ad ? Thanks.

[MML]

Yes sir, and thanks. It printed up very nicely

[Lefty&French]

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Henry Eagle]

I wonder if I'm late on this thread. (Is it still alive?) I happen to own a near mint condition Kentucky KH - Dawg Mandola from '83. Anyone interested in pictures or something?

[SternART]

I wonder if I'm late on this thread. (Is it still alive?) I happen to own a near mint condition Kentucky KH - Dawg Mandola from '83. Anyone interested in pictures or something?

It is now that you added to it! ;)

[Desert Rose]

For what its worth Sumi still has ALL the tooling for all the instruments discussed here and has made a very small number of each since he began the Sumi brand, almost all sold in Japan

He did a couple A body Dawg mandolas in the last year that were sweet

Scott

[delsbrother]

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/durbien/kentucky_mn.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/durbien/kentucky_ma.jpg

[Stephen Lind]

Soory, couldn't resist... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Sent you a PM about this

[MANDOLINMYSTER]

its not a mandola...but close

[James S]

As a fellow Dawg mandolin owner, I would love to see some other instruments from the set (mandola, mandocello); someone has to have some pictures on their hard drive or something. It seems we only have pictures in this thread of both the A and F-styles. Any others? Bueller? Bueller? :mandosmiley:

- James

[delsbrother]

The pictures in this thread of A styles both show Dawg mandolas. In other threads there are links to pics of the mandocello, which is also A style; I'm not sure there were ever Kentucky Dawg F style mandolas or mandocellos (though obviously there were some made by Monteleone).

[Philippe Bony]

Sent you a PM about this

Sorry again, I changed my cafe account. Please send me a PM again!
:redface:

[Aehle]

Here are a pair of 1984 Kentucky's, a KM-1000 mandolin and a KH-1300 mandola.

[gkraushaar]

I owned three of the KM-1000s back in the 80s and sold them. As a Saga dealer, I got two of them for insanely low prices because they had lacquer checks.