Harmony/Silvertone Sovereign Dreadnaught! - 1950’s/1960’s Made in USA🇺🇸! - Unreal Guitar! -

Wow! This is hands down the absolute best Harmony/Silvertone Sovereign-type guitar that I've ever played in the flesh. It has a heavenly mid-range shower of harmonics and overtones like an original Weissenborne. It has huge and heavenly Hawaiian tone when you play it lightly, and It has the most beautiful 1920’s-1940’s Charley Patton gritty acoustic blues bite when you lay into it. It sounds so classic 1950's Americana, it is the defining guitar of that sound! Message me for a video!

Harmony and Silvertone were the heart-winners of the non-mainstream old school USA brands like Airline and Kay and the like. The others are great, but Harmony has something extra about them about them that others don’t. That pickguard and bridge design are intoxicatingly beautiful, that’s something that separates Harmony as the prize racehorse in a stable of toothless mules.

The headstock originally had a bakelite veneer that had totally crumbled off, I refinished it in black with some nitro lacquer on top. I left the brush stokes heavily visible in the paint and then lacquered on top of that! I refinished a guitar like that recently and I loved the effect so much, and this guitar totally rolls with that vibe. I put on those beautiful new 3 on a plate Kluson tuners with the exaggerated buttons, they look awesome and are totally the vibe of the guitar. I made a truss rod cover for it as well. It also comes equipped with a great sounding old-school pickup! It seriously sounds great through any amp, I played it through a new fender tube combo and it was awesome.

Condition wise this thing is awesome, from a playability perspective it's as good as I've ever seen an old harmony be. The neck is straight as an arrow, the saddle has a ton of height on it, and it plays and sounds awesome. It also is it’s original ladder bracing! There was a trend in the 70’s and 80’s to change the bracing on these to be more like a Martin, but the ladder bracing is a big part of the reason why I think these guitars are cool and unique and different from an X-braced Martin. A lot of these were converted and I just really prefer the original bracing style, thats where the John Fahey tone lives. There's a fair share of scratches and aesthetic stuff on the back and honest play wear throughout, but it's a true instrument through and through. I would rather play this one than any other one in better aesthetic condition that I've seen. Most of these need super expensive neck resets, and this one is done and ready to go. Message me for a video of this one, amazing guitar!