Regal Jr Jumbo ca.1940 with hsc
This is one of my favorite body shapes - top surface area where is counts and not a bit extra, resulting in a very comfortable but “big” guitar.
A cousin to the more well known Kalamazoo KG-11 these guitars came in a handful of colors and trim outs - here showing off the fancy celluloid headstock face that I go a little gaga for. This example is pretty dang clean and also has a a very pale red, mahogany back and sides finish while most I’ve seen are an unsurprising brown.
25 inch scale with modern 1 11/16ths nut width and a full but very reasonable C neck profile places this design firmly on the modern side of the 1930’s.
Overhauled with a forward shifted, wide X to really let that big bottom bout pump some sound. Weighted like I also do - touch sensitive and wide open but with enough spring back that it can be dug into. This great old spruce top is giving me real aggressive bluegrass lick vibes, with that iconic sizzle at the tip of a flat picked note.
This is one of my favorite body shapes - top surface area where is counts and not a bit extra, resulting in a very comfortable but “big” guitar.
A cousin to the more well known Kalamazoo KG-11 these guitars came in a handful of colors and trim outs - here showing off the fancy celluloid headstock face that I go a little gaga for. This example is pretty dang clean and also has a a very pale red, mahogany back and sides finish while most I’ve seen are an unsurprising brown.
25 inch scale with modern 1 11/16ths nut width and a full but very reasonable C neck profile places this design firmly on the modern side of the 1930’s.
Overhauled with a forward shifted, wide X to really let that big bottom bout pump some sound. Weighted like I also do - touch sensitive and wide open but with enough spring back that it can be dug into. This great old spruce top is giving me real aggressive bluegrass lick vibes, with that iconic sizzle at the tip of a flat picked note.
This is one of my favorite body shapes - top surface area where is counts and not a bit extra, resulting in a very comfortable but “big” guitar.
A cousin to the more well known Kalamazoo KG-11 these guitars came in a handful of colors and trim outs - here showing off the fancy celluloid headstock face that I go a little gaga for. This example is pretty dang clean and also has a a very pale red, mahogany back and sides finish while most I’ve seen are an unsurprising brown.
25 inch scale with modern 1 11/16ths nut width and a full but very reasonable C neck profile places this design firmly on the modern side of the 1930’s.
Overhauled with a forward shifted, wide X to really let that big bottom bout pump some sound. Weighted like I also do - touch sensitive and wide open but with enough spring back that it can be dug into. This great old spruce top is giving me real aggressive bluegrass lick vibes, with that iconic sizzle at the tip of a flat picked note.