1950s Harmony Stella Sundale "Red" Parlor Guitar

Stella Sundales are pretty rare birds -- about as rare as the concurrent Harmony Caribbean instruments. They're pretty plain-Jane in build as they're iterations of the venerable H929 student model guitar, but they're gorgeous in execution with their vibrant, cool-as-heck paint schemes. I've owned both a blue one and a teal one in the past and worked on a strange, gray/pink model, but this is the first red one through the shop.

Ancel did a good job on this for a customer -- we tag-teamed the neck reset and then he leveled/dressed the frets, solved some seam and brace issues, and set it all up. It's now playing spot-on and has a good, woody, clunky, chunky sound.

These are solid birch in the bodies, ladder-braced, have poplar necks, and ebonized-maple fretboards and bridges. This one is completely original save for an endpin I stuck in later-on. The factory date stamp is illegible.