1970s Philippines-made Folk Classical Guitar

Sarah worked on this for an acquaintance of hers some time back but I forgot to post about it! She repaired a number of cracks, leveled and dressed the frets, and adjusted and set this up for the owner. I had to do some midly-tricky fret-seating work to bypass an obnoxious backbow in first position, but from what I remember the end result of the work is that this became a cozy, playable, parlor-sized instrument.

She gleaned some infomation from the owner, too -- that it was made in the Philippines in the '70s. That tracks -- its build style reminds me very much of cheap Japanese products from the late '60s but so much of the build is quirky that it couldn't be a normal production guitar from Japan.

For starters, the whole body is solid mahogany, the bridge is like a bizarro interpretation of a Gibson J-200 mustache bridge, and the fret spacing and scale is mildly-bananas. It has a clear plastic nut and originally had a clear plastic saddle, too. It may have been made for steel but we kept it strung with the nylon it came in with because we were worried it would self-destruct otherwise.