1926 Weymann Style 740 0-Size Guitar

Weymann instruments built before the original factory closed are all high-quality and this cute little guitar, though it's seen some distress over its life, is overall in good health and now sounds and plays the biz, too.

This one was built in '26 per its serial number and is roughly 0-sized with a 13 5/8" lower bout. It's ladder-braced (but in a thin, refined style that reminds me of Larson work) and suits fingerpickers perfectly but is rather ho-hum as a flatpicker. Meaning... if you're looking for a flatpicking box... it will strum fine with a lightish pick but it really shines with the fingers. The sparkling, sustained sound works perfectly for that.

This guy is solid spruce over solid mahogany in the body, has a mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard, and a (new) ebony bridge. The original bridge was ebony and pyramid-shaped, too, but damaged. The binding is rosewood on the top. I've fit new StewMac repro-style tuners, too, and it has a tall saddle with plenty of room for adjustment later-on.

Repairs included: a neck reset, fret seating and level/dress, side dots, new bridge install, new saddle and bridge pins, replacement tuners, new bone nut, cleaning, re-repair of some spotty old seam repairs, and setup.

Top wood: solid spruce

Back & sides wood: solid mahogany

Bracing type: ladder

Bridge: ebony

Fretboard: rosewood

Neck wood: mahogany

Action height at 12th fret: 3/32” bass 1/16” treble (fast, spot-on)
String gauges: 46w-10 extra lights

Neck shape: medium C/V

Board radius: ~12"

Neck relief: straight

Fret style: lower/smaller

Scale length: 24 7/8"

Nut width: 1 13/16"

Body width: 13 5/8"

Body depth: 4"

Weight: 3 lbs 2 oz

Condition notes: it's in overall good health with the only evident crack being a repaired hairline on the back. Someone did a poor job of regluing the back to the sides in the past, though, and used bondo to fill-in areas where the alignment was off. I scraped them all back down to the sides and then touched them up as much as I could, but there are still areas of roughness (looks-wise) along the back/sides seams. The finish is all original and in good order but does show plenty of light scratching, definite pickwear around the soundhole, and lots of fine-line weather-checking throughout. The tuners bridge, saddle, nut, and pins are all replacements. There's also finish muck-up around the bridge itself, too, from previous reglue attempts.

Also: the necks on these have a shallow tenon joint. I reset these and add a bolt (hidden internally) as needed to shore them up for the long haul. This neck glued-up overnight with a slightly-steep back angle (these joints can be a little fussy when you're resetting them) and so the fretboard extension dips down a little more than I'd like over the body and the saddle is thus necessarily pretty tall, too. It's stable and I expect as it settles-in I will need to sand the saddle a hair (this is typical of any guitar once strings are put back on after a long absence) so I'm not concerned with its height.

It comes with: a ratty old chip case for protection in transit.