1960s Harmony H165 X-Braced Conversion Guitar

This is a funky old H165 that someone (clumsily, but with a good sound as an end-result) converted to x-bracing in recent memory. They'd also set the neck angle way too far back so that needed to be addressed, too. It then got a level/dress of the frets and tweaking of its bone saddle and setup to get it playing its best. Suffice to say, it now does play like a champ and has a rollicking, woody, chunky, retro sound that's more in keeping with a Gibson LG-2 or Martin 00-15 territory compared to the up-front, choppy sound of a normal H165.

Along with the funky repairs the body looks like it was refinished in spots and oversprayed in others. The tuners are later replacement Kluson-style units and the bridge is a Martin-style replacement. The treble "side" has a million little plug-dots and I'm assuming that there may have been some sort of metal reinforcement attached to that side at one point. Who knows? Only the converter!