Depending on the enrollment, Im offering evening classes everyday and Saturday afternoon. We started life selling used guitars out of a one room place in Chinatown, and over the last 30 years we have grown into one of the largest music stores in the state. We also specialize in used, and fine vintage instruments. Stylistically you can see the resemblance to the Supro Pocket Bass, another short-scale instrument popular with. Aloha, Joe, with all my respect to every Slack-Key guitar instructor in the world, Id like to invite you and anyone else to my beginning Slack-Key classes at the Hemenway Leisure Center located on the beautiful campus of the Univerity of Hawaii. Specialties: Sales and service of guitars, basses and ukulele. I love the checkerboard binding/purfling (not sure of the correct term). 1965 Supro Oahu short-scale guitar with DeArmond pickup : With a scale length of 22' and a single DeArmond 'Pancake' pickup, this Supro Oahu from 1965 currently listed on eBay could be quite a catch for someone. The subject guitar is of the first phase, factory X-braced with a 4 1/2' body depth. This guitar came with the original case, a box of 1930's sheet music, a photograph of the seller's great uncle playing it, back in the day, and the two original tassels hanging from the tuners. The Oahu Jumbo evolved in essentially two phases, the first being X-braced and 14 1/2' across at the lower bout, and the second phase, beginning in 36, measured 15 1/2' across the lower bout and was usually ladder braced. What are your thoughts? Would you keep it original or convert?, based on the unusual string pegs]( ) but I note that he has a 2 piece back. I've seen a lot of these square necks (designed for playing on the lap like a steel) converted to round necks. Is there anything in particular that you base that upon (Not doubting, just want to learn the identification process.) Oahu catalogs show the 66K became a 12-fret model in 1940. It appears to have a one piece back and top. I've been building guitars on and off since the '80s. Lots of opinions out there on who might have made this, with some people firmly saying "Kay" others "Regal" and a few "Harmony". A former Guild employee builds guitars and winds his own pickups by hand. Pretty sure it is an Auditorium Model (OM) size. Only problem with that is the catalogs that I have seen show the 66K as a 14 fret model.
OAHU GUITAR IDENTIFICATION FULL
Lots of opinions including this page (with identical guitar) which calls it a 1937 Oahu 66K - full body picture of the Folkwaymusic version here. It was advertised as simply "1930s Oahu guitar" with no mention of the wood, but exercising my Google Fu I can't find anything really authoritative on it. My kind bro-in-law did the Craigslist transaction for me.
I bought this long distance, without seeing it in person.
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