1920s Stromberg-Voisinet (Kay) 2-Point Celluloid-Wrapped Parlor Guitar

I've worked on a few of these old Stromberg-Voisinet (later, Kay) 0-size, 2-point guitars, but this is the first one I've handled with the celluloid-wrapped back and sides. For fun, click here to see a similar guitar and click here to see another similar guitar.

So far, this one is my favorite. It has an outrageous amount of grey-green celluloid material, a pinstripe down the center seam of the top, and a fancy, 3-ring rosette. I like!

It needed the usual stuff -- a neck reset, bridge reglue, brace reglues to the back, seam and corner repairs, a level/dress of the frets, new bone saddle, cleaning, and setup work. I also had to replace a few missing tuner parts. Post-work it's a spot-on player and has a woody, chunky, boxy sound that's okay flatpicked but really shines when fingerpicked.

The top is solid spruce and the back and sides are solid birch. It has a poplar neck and ebonized-maple bridge with maple fretboard under the celluloid veneer. It's ladder-braced and has a short, 24 1/4" scale length and 1 3/4" or thereabouts nut width. The neck is a bigger V-shape and the board is flat.