Mandolin shops in dfw area

[drewgrass]

hello to all, i am looking to buy a new mandolin. i live in rural western oklahoma and the nearest place to buy a good mandolin is from byron berline (great guy) in guthrie oklahoma. i bought my gibson doyle lawson that my divorce ate, from byron and i am going to go look at his stock again, in the next week or two. but i am going to be in the dallas fort worth area, later this month. and was wondering,if any of you folks could let me know where to find a collings, gibson, weber, or any other fine instrument, etc etc dealer. name , street name,phone numbers or websites would be much appreciated. thanks to all.

[Bill Snyder]

Doing a quick Google search leads to Collings being available and in stock at Charley's Guitars at 2720 Royal Lane, Suite 100, Dallas, Texas. The nearest Weber dealer to DFW is going to be Waco Vintage Instruments in Mansfield (not near Waco BTW). Phone # is 817 - 473 - 9144. No Gibson dealer in DFW (not for mandolins anyway).
There may be other dealers that have used/vintage instruments. I just looked for authorized new dealers.

[John Flynn]

Yeah, Charley's is the place to go. I was there about two years ago and they had at least a dozen mandolins in stock, about half of those were Collings. The owners are really nice people.