1960s Del Vecchio Dinamico Resonator Guitar

Overview: Who doesn't love the curious look of these Brazilian-made resonator guitars? It's hard to be frustrated with the good-looking mahogany veneer used throughout the body or the odd, circular soundholes scattered here and there. I've been fortunate-enough to have worked on a good number of Del Vecchios, now, and it was my pleasure to introduce Manny to them when he did the work on this guy. They have their own breathier, sort-of mellower, but still-loud sound compared to a National woodbody. This one handles more or less like a classical guitar in the neck and body shape but takes steel just fine.

Interesting features: For starters, it's a beautiful-looking instrument with its wood binding and plentiful mahogany ply used in the body. The slotted headstock is a nice touch and the biscuit bridge, with its Brazilian rosewood "puck," is eye-catching.

Repairs included: Manny leveled and dressed the frets, seated and secured the cone and biscuit bridge, recut the saddle slot wider and fit and made a fully-compensated rosewood saddle to achieve spot-on intonation, and then set it up. He also added side dots. It's playing spot-on and sounds killer. While it could probably run 54w-12 strings, I'm suggesting keeping it at 52w-11 on it for standard tuning so as not to stress-out the neck.

• Weight: 4 lbs 7 oz
• Scale length: 25 3/8"
• Nut width: 1 31/32"
• Neck shape: slim-medium C
• Board radius: flat
• Body width: 14"
• Body depth: 3 7/8"
• Body: ply Brazilian rosewood
• Cone type: single/biscuit-style
• Bridge: rosewood
• Fretboard: rosewood
• Neck wood: mahogany
• Action height at 12th fret: 3/32” bass 1/16” treble (fast, spot-on)
• String gauges: 52w-11
• Neck relief: straight
• Fret style: medium

Condition notes: The cone on this one is swapped for a Beard biscuit-style cone as the original one was damaged before it arrived here and replaced. It's also had its tailpiece swapped for a more-practical, more-recent one. The saddle is new and the saddle slot has been widened to allow for proper compensation. Otherwise, it appears original throughout. It's missing its bridge cover/wrist rest piece and, as a result, we've filled the mounting holes for that hardware with a couple of machine screws at the coverplate. There's weather-checking in the finish all over the instrument and small scuffs and scratches here and there throughout -- though they're not obvious -- just normal usewear. Two modern strap buttons were added.

It comes with: It's got a good, hard case

Consignor tag: NLJH