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
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1967 Harmony-made Barclay Archtop Guitar
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
Continue ReadingBently Dreadnaught, made in Romania ca. 1990
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
Continue ReadingEarly ’70s MIJ “Concert Folk” guitar
This is an early 1970s asian-made guitar (probably from Japan), modeled on the popular concert-size “Folk” guitars of the late 1960s. Measurements: Upper bout: 11″ Waist: 9 1/2″ Lower bout: 14 1/2″ Scale length: 25
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