The Parlor Guitar Parlor – Vintage Parlor Guitars

Electrified Savannah 12-fret Single-0 Parlor Guitar

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 For Sale, Parlor Guitar

This is a Savannah 12-fret Single-O size parlor guitar with a strat-style pickup in the soundhole. It plays easy and sounds like a poor man’s ES-125. Measurements: Scale: 25 1/2″ Lower bout: 13 1/2″ Waist:

Mop Tin Banjo

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 Banjos, Sold

This is a little travel banjo I built last year out of a vintage O-Cedar mop tin. It has a 6 1/2″ Mop Tin pot and a 19 1/4″ scale. It’s fretless, and has a

1920s Regal Tenor Guitar

May 13, 2020July 8, 2020 Sold, Tenor Guitar

1920s Regal-made tenor guitar. No headstock logo, and the inner label is missing but it’s clearly Regal-made. Lightly built, ladder-braced spruce top over birch sides and back, with black binding on front and back. The

1930s Unmarked Student Banjo

April 23, 2020July 8, 2020 Banjos, Sold

Update 7/2020: I did a lot more work on the neck to pot fit on this one, and plugged a hole that had been drilled long ago when the dowel was shifted high on the

Late ’70s Ibanez 518 Mandolin

April 14, 2020July 8, 2020 Mandolin, Sold

This is a nice, all-solid A style mandolin made by Ibanez in the late 1970s. This Ibanez A style mandolin has a sold spruce top, and solid maple back and sides. It is pressed, not

1960s Kay-made Custom Kraft archtop

April 13, 2020July 8, 2020 Full-size Guitar, Sold

This is a 1060s Kay-made Custom Kraft archtop guitar, labeled for the St. Louis Music Company. Measurements:Upper bout: 11 1/2″Waist: 9″Lower bout: 15 1/2″Scale: 26 1/4″Action at the 12th fret: 7/64″ This guitar had a

1930s Regal slot-head parlor guitar (X-braced)

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Parlor Guitar

This is a solid birch Regal parlor guitar with a poplar neck and “ebonized” pearwood or maple fretboard. When I got it, it was a bit down on its luck and had lost all but

1967 Harmony-made Barclay Archtop Guitar

February 20, 2020March 12, 2020 Full-size Guitar, Sold

This is a 1967 Harmony-made H1218 solid birch archtop guitar, branded Barclay for the United Buying Service mail order company. It has a faux tiger-flame and painted-on “binding,” and has had a neck angle set

Late ’60s Harmony-made Silvertone parlor

December 10, 2019March 12, 2020 Parlor Guitar, Sold

This is a late 1960s Harmony-made Silvertone guitar. It was sold at Sears stores, and is the same guitar as the Harmony-made Stella 929. Measurements: Upper bout: 9 1/2″ Waist: 8 1/2″ Lower bout: 12″

Bently Dreadnaught, made in Romania ca. 1990

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Full-size Guitar

This is a ca. 1990 Bently Dreadnought guitar. It has a sold spruce top, solid maple back and sides (stained to look like mahogany). It was made in Romania, right around the time the communist