River(where I live) Check out awesome demo of SMOKESTACK GUITAR BELOW. Wood is Cherry Bark Red Oak with is the highest quality red oak available and only grows in a 100 mile stretch along the Ms. If you get this bridge and don't agree that it greatly improves sound and playability, send it back and I will gladly refund your money. We build project piece bridge's- at very reasonable prices also. This makes this the best most versatile bridge on the market for vintage guitars that use floating bridges. Then if you want to raise the strings up for slide, just put a new $.50 plastic saddle and you are ready to go.
Plays much easier, strings feel softer and and this bridge uses a stock saddle(bone or plastic) which is very easy to file down to get string height correct. There is a small amount of give which makes all the difference in the world with the string reflex. Also by it not holding the strings in an exact postition like the stock bridges. more will take out a lot of the TWANG/BOXIE sound that is so familiar with the old solid birch guitars. Bidding starts at one dollar good luck.įree worldwide shipping UP for grabs is an Improvement bridge that will work on any guitar that has a tailpiece and uses a floating bridge.This bridge. But I need to make room for the instruments I do play, in so far as I am not really a collector. The young boy for whatever reason tore off the top to the pick box in the case. The obvious wild strumming of a happy child on Christmas day making a joyous noise in 1967. The only flaw is the faint pick marks on the guitar face made by the pick included in the case. But of course it was not) and the tuning pegs are pristine, no tarnish, no rust. Included is the original case, the hang tag showing the case cost $7.95, a photo of the young man receiving the guitar as a gift(kind of like certificate of authenticity- lol) The guitar still has the sticker of the music store from which it was purchased(looks like it was stuck on yesterday.
A Christmas present in 1967 from a young man's grandmother. I have it strung with light guage bronze strings and tuned down to D to reduce the stress on this vintage instrument.
It is totally playable and the neck is straight for a Stella with the usual little bit of relief. more It measures 32 inches long and 11 1/4 across the lower bout. Not realizing it was a child's guitar and that it would be too small for me to play comfortably. Let us know what Neil says and what you see when you look at it.What a find! I purchased this on ebay a while back. If it needs any of the work (and you are going to have to pay someone to do it) then either negotiate a significant price reduction or avoid it. My general feeling is that if it needs none of the above (unlikely) then it might be a funky little guitar to pick up. Its very hard to judge that guitar by the pictures or to tell you if its worth what they are asking. They don't have truss rods so if the relief is excessive the f/b will need to be planed - that can be done when its refretted. All of the other things apply - frets, fretboard, tuners. They have dovetail neck joints so a reset is straightforward - figure about $300. They can also suffer structural failures - be sure to evaluate that carefully. Most of the pre-Harmony Stellas were ladder braced which is one of the things that gives them their distinctive sound. What I can tell you is that Robert Johnson probably never played a Stella (what he played isn't well documented but the iconic picture is an L-00 Gibson). Neil Harpe is one of the true experts on old Stellas - I would give him a call.
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