{"product_id":"harmony-stella-929-tigerstripe","title":"Harmony Stella 929 sunburst vintage 6 string guitar","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassic early 1970s USA made Harmony Stella 929 parlour sized guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll solid birch construction, ladder braced top, poplar neck, made in Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24 inch scale length, 36 inches long overall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis guitar has been fully overhauled and set-up so that it is properly playable. Often these little guitars are described as \"great for slide\" simply because they need a neck-reset, but not many people do this work, as it is a skilled job and labour intensive, and many feel their status as a \"catalogue guitar\". doesn't warrant the effort and expense to sort them out. I've done this to dozens of these guitars, which were in production as variants of this model from the late 1930s to the early 1970s, so I genuinely know these guitars inside out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe've given this guitar a neck reset to ensure it's fully playable with a good low action (1.75mm on the high E at the 12th fret, 2.25mm oin the low E). The reset has been done so that there's plenty of height in the bridge, the fretboard extension has had a tapered wedge installed so that there's no fall-off or hump where it joins the body, and it's all been done using traditional hide glue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe frets are the original skinny brass ones, properly checked and levelled. The fretboard is pearwood with a stained and painted finish, the fret markers are stencilled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll original hardware and Kluson machineheads, which although they aren't the best are perfectly functional. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew Blackwood Tek bridge, with a fretwire saddle and string spacer slots. Strung with d'Addario phosphor bronze 10's.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's generally in good condition, and has been treated pretty well, but do bear in mind it's over 50 years old!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese charming little guitars are increasingly difficult to get hold of, and I pride myself in knowing how to restore them and get them nicely playable. To my knowledge, I'm the only person doing neck resets on these guitars on a regular basis . Most sellers  will just shave the bridge down to improve the action but this is rarely an acceptable way to getting them properly playable, and is certainly not a long term solution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe birchwood and ladder braced construction make for a tight boxy sound which is great for blues, and the handy size makes it a very comfortable guitar to play. I use a Stella 929 as my main gigging 6 string guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ChickenboneJohn Guitars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43769910231268,"sku":"","price":395.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0402\/0481\/files\/stellaburst1.heic?v=1785775808","url":"https:\/\/www.chickenbonejohn.com\/products\/harmony-stella-929-tigerstripe","provider":"ChickenboneJohn Guitars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}