1970s Harmony Stella H913 000-Size 12-String Guitar

Overview: We've worked on lots of these old Harmony 000-size 12-strings. They're ideal "Leadbelly" guitars for folks looking for that retro, punchy, country-blues sound. This one dates to the '70s but the date-stamp is really faded. It appears to be of the ply-birch-body type but, in the case of these guitars, that means it actually has a little extra volume and punch on tap and means it's a reliable, more-stable thumper of a guitar especially for someone who might want to drag it out to gigs (hint: these are very cool with lipstick magnetic pickups fit at the soundhole).

Repairs included: Ancel gave this a neck reset, level/dress of the frets, side dots, a new fully-compensated bone saddle, a downpressure metal bar fit behind the saddle (to get better sound with the lower saddle height and tailpiece load), cleaning, and setup work. This guitar also came to us with a broken truss rod which he removed. I showed him how to drill the neck through the old truss access for installation of a larger rod and then he fit (epoxied-in-place) a non-adjustable, Martin-style steel rod. This has yielded a neck that's nice and straight, stable in service, and also with a little higher mass so the notes "pop" a bit more (if you know the difference in sound between a non-adjustable Martin neck and an adjustable, current-day one, you will know it's fuller, generally, for the non-adjustable sound).

• Weight: 4 lbs 7 oz
• Scale length: 25 1/8"
• Nut width: 2"
• Neck shape: big D
• Board radius: flat
• Depth at first fret: 0.96"
• Depth at seventh fret: 0.96"
• Body width: 15 3/8"
• Body depth: 3 7/8"
• Top wood: ply birch
• Back & sides wood: ply birch
• Bracing type: ladder
• Bridge: ebonized maple
• Fretboard: ebonized maple
• Neck wood: poplar
• Action height at 12th fret: 1/16" overall (fast, spot-on)
• String gauges: 44w-9 extra light
• Truss rod: non-adjustable
• Neck relief: straight
• Fret style: medium-lower

Condition notes: It's pretty clean throughout and mostly-original, with the exception of the downpressure bar, truss rod, and saddle. There are the usual light scratches and scuffs and edge-wear throughout.

It comes with: Sorry, no case.

Consignor tag: MULK