1930s Hager (Gretsch) 0-Size Guitar

Jake Too worked on this guitar after I reset the neck and glued-on a replacement bridge. He leveled and dressed the frets, cleaned it up, fit a new bone saddle, and set it up. It's now playing bang-on.

It's a nice, '30s-era, Gretsch-made instrument and was sold under the Hager name. It's ladder-braced and has a solid spruce top over ply maple back and sides. It has a very pretty, flamed-maple neck. The sound is pretty-much perfect if you're a light-touch strummer or fingerpicker -- woody and sweet and chimey in its own way. It originally had an archtop-style, screwed-on pickguard but that's stowed in its old case as the owner prefers it bare.

It's original save for the bridge, saddle, pins, and one side of the (older) tuners, too.

I'm pretty sure most of these Hager-brand guitars were intended to be sold as Hawaiian (lap slide) models when they were made. The neck angle needed such a drastic change I can't imagine it ever played well when it was first made and likely had an extender nut on it right from the factory.