1930s Oscar Schmidt Spruce/Maple Parlor Guitar

Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to shoot a video of this guitar before it was picked-up. It had a woody, direct, bluesy quality and a sort-of midsy "bark" that snapped-out at you.

I've worked on instruments of this style before and they seem to be late-'30s builds from the Oscar Schmidt factory right before the company went belly-up. This particular one is solid spruce over solid flamed maple, has a comfortable neck with a wider-than-average (1 13/16") nut width, and a longer-than-average (for a parlor or 0-size from the time) 25" scale. The fretboard, headstock veneer, and bridge are all rosewood and the neck is mahogany.

This guy got a neck reset, fret level/dress, crack repairs, brace repairs, a bridge reglue, new saddle-slot cut, new bone saddle, side dots, and setup. It's "the works" as usual.

Post-repairs it's as I noted above -- something suited very much to bluesy fingerpicking with bare fingers. It's got snap! However... it's not as warm or flatpicking-friendly as something like a '20s spruce-topped Oscar Schmidt... which sound more like mellower '50s LG-1s than your "average ladder-braced parlor guitar" for the time.