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
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1920s Regal 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
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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
Continue ReadingLate ’70s Ibanez 518 Mandolin
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
Continue Reading1960s Kay-made Custom Kraft archtop
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
Continue Reading1967 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 ReadingLate ’60s Harmony-made Silvertone parlor
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″
Continue Reading1965 “Nobility” MIJ Electrified Parlor Guitar
This is a 1965 Nobility Made in Japan slope-shouldered parlor guitar with an added soundhole pickup. I have the original purchase receipt for this guitar, dated Fall of 1965. Measurements: Upper bout: 9 1/2″ Waist:
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
Continue Reading1972 Harmony Stella H6130 parlor guitar with case
This is a 1972 Harmony Stella H6130 parlor guitar with the original case. It has a bright, punchy tone and plays easily. It also features an adjustable saddle, so you can tune in whatever action
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