1928 National Style 2 Tricone Resonator Tenor Guitar

I don't know how this exactly came into my customer's care, but I know that I at least gave this instrument cone seating and mild setup work in the past -- before it was in his collection. It had my customary shim added under the dowel at the neck joint, too. I remember the break angle on the strings being really low, though, so it being a "playing as best as it could" job.

This time around, we had the time to do the work correctly. I gave it a neck reset, Sarah leveled and dressed the frets, and I went through another round of cone, bridge, and saddle adjustments and seating. With the strings having a better break-angle on the saddle, this thing sounds now exactly as it should -- assured, loud, sweet, and with a lot of sustain and a bit of a burrrrrrr to its voice.

The engraving is beautiful and this instrument is original throughout. One of the bridge legs was broken and epoxied back together with a wooden splint (I remembered this detail, too) in the past, and that's still holding-up just fine. It wasn't my job, though, but I appreciate the fix-and-go aesthetic, heh heh.