Kent 744 emando

[leftymo]

My neighbor has one of these Japan made electric mandolins in very good condition. He asked if i could research it's value
for him. I really havn't been able to find much info on it frankly. Any body know anything about the Kent 744 electric mandolin? I think is about 10-15 years old.

Thanks!

[sumibuilt]

Heres a link... http://images.google.com/imgres?....rl=http (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.emando.com/images/builders/Kent/kent_blondie.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.emando.com/builders/Kent.htm&h=979&w=442&sz=84&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=9fzBfbrnOG63CM:&tbnh=149&tbnw=67&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkent%2B744%2Belectric%26um%3D1%26hl%3 Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN)

[jefflester]

'Course they don't really look like a little telecaster. These pop on Ebay and there's a long topic down in the electrics section for Ebay posts. I think they go in the $300-400 range. It appears difficult to search on "Kent" without also getting the "Kentucky" listings.

[leftymo]

Yeah I know what you mean... the only link I've found thus far was the afore mentioned above and a beat up one on Ebay. thanks!

[mrmando]

I recently sold one of the blond ones for $450. They were made in the mid-60s, so they're considerably older than 10-15 years. I have seen people ask more than $450 for them, but I haven't seen them get it. There are enough Kent 744s around that no one really needs to pay more.