1930s Regal-Made Baritone-Scale 000/0000-Size Guitar

October 21, 2024

1930s Regal-Made Baritone-Scale 000/0000-Size Guitar

A local customer dropped this off some time back and he was on the fence about keeping it or selling it at the time. Ancel just finished this off recently for him and the fellow came down the next day, tried it out, and took it home despite its huge neck and plethora of old repairs. That says something about the way he (and we) feel about this old box -- it's got a gorgeous sound and its extra-long scale length means it can do all sorts of things you wouldn't normally expect from a guitar of this size.

The body is a little larger than a normal 000 12-fret design and is ladder-braced with a spruce top and birch back and sides. While unmarked, it's clearly a Regal-made instrument due to its trim, overall cut and design, neck shape, cut, and style, and materials used. Interestingly, I've worked on almost the same guitar in the past but with a more-normal, 25 1/4" or so scale length.

Repairs included: I gave it a neck reset and some minor seam and crack repairs and Ancel did work on the frets, made a new nut, fit some parts-bin tuners I handed to him (as funky Pings were on here), fit a replacement bridge (also a parts-bin find that he cut down to suit) and saddle, fixed many loose braces and cracks, and set it all up.