I'm looking at a 1998 Lebeda A5 and trying to decide whether it's worth rolling the dice on (it's not local so I can't play it first, but the price is right). Would a Lebeda from this era have been an instrument that Jiri personally built from start to finish? From what I've gathered there have been various periods where he was building for Stelling as well as under his own name, but was outsourcing some of the work to other craftsmen and then putting the finishing touches on them. There seems to be a wealth of information on the Cafe forums about Lebedas from the early and mid-2000s but I can't find much commentary on earlier ones.
Pictures below, not the greatest but there they are. Seller does not give a particular model name, simply "A5".
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