1937 National Trovador-Style Squareneck Resonator Guitar

Overview: This latter-era squareneck (lap slide playing) National resonator guitar is a lot like an El Trovador model, but with a squareneck setup. Like a lot of these later squarenecks, it has 14-fret joint, so a little brain remapping may be useful to keep that in mind. After a little tweaking, it's turned-out very loud, punchy, and up-front (as you'd expect) and with a sing-song quality especially for playing on the higher-end. I love it for Hawaiian-style "sweet" playing, but it will do bluesy-hot with no effort at all. The owner had a pickup installed, too, so it's ready for stage use.

Repairs included: I adjusted the fitting of the K&K pickup (less wire clutter), cleaned it up, adjusted the cone seating and placement, and restrung and set it up just a hair. It's playing bang-on.

• Weight: 5 lbs 11 oz
• Scale length: 25"
• Nut width: 1 7/8"
• Neck shape: square flat
• Body width: 14 1/4"
• Body depth: 3 5/8"
• Body wood: ply mysterywood
• Bridge: modern maple National biscuit
• Resonator: presumably-original '30s National cone
• Fretboard: rosewood
• Neck wood: maple or poplar
• String gauges: 54w-12 lights

Condition notes: There's one tiny piece of replacement fretboard binding near the nut. The bridge/biscuit/saddle are replacements. Otherwise, it's original and in great shape with only minor usewear here and there and the usual weather-checking throughout. It has a K&K reso pickup installed (the type that screws-down to the top of the biscuit) with an endpin jack. There's a strap-button hole at the back of the heel and there are some various scratches on the back of the neck.

It comes with: It has a semi-rigid case.

Consignor tag: MLFR