1950s Harmony Stella Sundale "Red" Parlor Guitar

Overview: 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.

Tone: It's got a woody, clunky, chunky sound -- best for fingerpicking but a flatpicker will get some good snap out of it.

Feel: The neck is on the bigger side and has a flat fretboard.

Interesting features: 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.

Repairs included: 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.

• Weight: 3 lbs 5 oz
• Scale length: 24 1/8"
• Nut width: 1 3/4"
• Neck shape: medium V/full shoulders hybrid
• Board radius: flat
• Body width: 13"
• Body depth: 3 3/4"
• Top wood: solid birch
• Back & sides wood: solid birch
• Bracing type: ladder
• Bridge: ebonized maple
• Fretboard: ebonized maple
• Neck wood: poplar
• Action height at 12th fret: 3/32” bass 1/16” treble (fast, spot-on)
• String gauges: 52w, 40w, 30w, 22w, 16, 12
• Truss rod: non-adjustable
• Neck relief: straight
• Fret style: medium-lower

Condition notes: It's all-original save a replacement endpin (in the photos there's none, but there's a cream one on it at the moment). There's some mild wear and tear to the finish throughout and rubbing at the edges but overall it looks nice. The paint stands-out well.

It comes with: Sorry, no case.

Consignor tag: DCH