Weight: 3 lbs 11 oz
Neck Depth 1st fret: .85"
Neck Depth 9th fret: .93"
Early 1970's Harmony Sovereign OM just in! This went through the Baxendale conversion process in 2023 and sounds fantastic. It is set up well and needs nothing. Full Baxendale conversion process description below. This comes with a Martin OM size hardshell case. As this is a vintage instrument there is honest player's patina and finish checking throughout. Please see pics.
Conversion process explanation from Baxendale website:
The Harmony conversion is a process by which we take old USA-made Harmony and Kay guitars and remanufacture them using our proprietary bracing and internal design, giving the guitars a new life and a world class tone that compares to vintage guitars of the highest order. This re-manufacturing process allows us to create a guitar that is also green, recycling and repurposing by starting with an existing guitar that was originally made with quality woods, and requiring no finish work. These are great guitars that retain their vintage patina and mojo at a price that the average musician can afford.
Many musicians have an old Harmony or Kay laying around that was their first instrument. Some have sent them to us to be rebuilt, and these guitars subsequently became their favorite instrument! Many of our customers are professional recording artists and musicians. If you would like to purchase a remade Harmony or Kay, have one rebuilt, or have one to sell, contact us here.
Disassembly
Before we can work our engineering magic on your acoustic guitar we have to completely disassemble it into it's component parts.
We carefully remove the neck and bridge, separate the back from the body, and remove all hardware and old braces. We then inspect and remedy any structural problems.
Neck Reset
Through years of string tension, the neck can pull up, the top can warp, and the dovetail joint can slip: resulting in high playing action or impossible playability.
We remove the neck and clean out the dovetail, before setting a perfect neck angle and glueing back in place to ensure further more years of life.
Refret
A precise re-fret, built on-top of a level-planed fingerboard, greatly enhances playing feel, action, sustain, and intonation.
All frets are carefully leveled, crowned, sanded, and polished to a mirror finish as part of the process.
The Nut
Making the perfect guitar nut, ensures optimum resonant transmission, acoustic coupling, and intonation. Each guitar that passes through has a hand carved nut.
Every bespoke nut is made to fit, ramps and guides are filed to be flat and true, and each guitar is expertly tuned for playability and function.
Bracing
Our bracing pattern, inspired by pre-war models, increases headroom, richness and projection. Combined with vintage tone-woods, we create top shelf guitars at a fraction of the cost.
Each brace is meticulously hand carved, shaped and perfectly fit using the highest quality spruce stock we can source.
The Bridge
We consider the bridge to be the engine of the guitar. Converting energy supplied by your pick to project sound.
Every guitar that comes through our shop gets a bespoke hand carved bridge to match the style and footprint of the original.
Tuning Gears
Over more than 40 years, the tuning gears on vintage guitars tend to warp and bind together leaving them stiff and unusable.
We replace all tuning gears with high end models as standard. Ensuring precision tuning and years of further use.
Green
Guitar making accounts for a substantial amount of the lumber economy, older guitars are made from exotic wood, unobtainable in todays market.
Our guitars are constructed using the original neck and body woods, and we use minimal new wood for our conversions. We're proud to support environmental concerns.
