1958 Silvertone (Harmony-Made) Stella-Style Parlor Guitar

Here's an older Harmony-made Silvertone parlor guitar that was in the shop for a neck reset, fret level/dress, setup work, some seam work, and some brace reglues. The owners requested leaving the strings that were on it (ancient, blackened, '80s phosphor bronze with an unwound G) and so that was a fun challenge to solve intonation-wise. The high E broke while downtuning it but I salvaged a similar gauge from off of an equally-old set on another guitar.

This model is the same as the H929 Stella models (the most-often seen variant of this style of Harmony product) but in an "iced-tea" burst. Per the usual, the body is ladder-braced, solid birch and the neck is poplar. Both the fretboard and bridge are ebonized mysterywood.









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