1934 Supertone (Harmony) Electrified Rubber-Bridge Parlor Guitar

This guitar is intended as a gift for a friend of a friend -- and so that first friend (the one buying it for the other friend) in there had some of his other instruments hanging-about up here knocked back further in line again to get this one out the door. Poor devil!

Still, what a nice gift, huh? This is a Harmony-made, Supertone-branded (Sears), stenciled "parlor" guitar and it's even date-stamped to 1934 inside. The body is solid birch throughout, it has a poplar neck, and ebonized maple (or similar) fretboard and bridge.

After giving it a neck reset, seam and brace repairs, and a fret level/dress, I went-about converting it into a "rubber bridge electric" guitar -- as is the fashion these days -- and fit a lipstick-style single coil pickup at the soundhole and volume/tone wiring harness down on the lower bout with some Dakaware-style retro knobs. I reused the original bridge by fitting a rubber top to it in the style that I've been using recently -- this is a softer rubber from the bottom of a tile grout float and I anchor it in place with a bunch of small screws that hold the rubber pad/saddle steady.

Soundwise, it's very similar to a recent blade-single-coil rubber bridge guitar I sold a few months ago (click here to hear it), but I didn't manage to get a video of this one before it shipped-out.

The gifter's last request was to "paint a jackalope fishing" on it. Apparently the giftee is into both fishing and jackalopes, so I did a quick painting roughly in keeping with the original black stencil job at the soundhole and fretboard.