Re: Kolbe Mandolin
Originally Posted by
ramblinman
Hello,
I am new top the site and very much a beginner player. My wife was at a garage sale and saw a beautiful blonde Kolbe Mandolin. Unfortunately I was at work and couldn't come by to check it out myself and it is quite a treck from where I live. Trying to do some research on the maker. What are people's impressions on these mandos? How much do they normally go for? Worth the drive to go see it? Thanks for any help.
Welcome to the Mandolin Cafe -- unfortunately that is not a maker that I know much about. I did see one blonde Kolbe F-style mandolin for sale that looked very much like a standard carved (looked like maple back and sides) hand-made mandolin. There were only a few pics but what I saw looked really quite nicely done as I recall. If it is the same "Kolbe" then it looks like a decent mandolin? Probably worth a good look anyway for sure.
The best thing is to try to find out who maked the one you are interested in.
If you look in the "Builders" section on this web site you find this information under Kolbe mandolin:
Name: Henson, Steve
Company: Kolbe Mandolins
Address: 1079 Pleasant Grove Rd.
Chester South Carolina 29706
Country: United States
Link: Web site
Phone/fax: (803) 581-2973
Comments:
Update: January, 2014
I'd start there -- give him a call -- looks like he was still building a few months ago anyway.
Bernie
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Due to current budgetary restrictions the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off -- sorry about the inconvenience.
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