The plan at the moment is to do a neck reset and get this guitar playing good. Wonder how it will sound?
Here's a guitar I picked up at a yard sale yesterday. I don't know much about it as info on the old SS Stewat guitars is difficult to find. I'm not sure of the age of this guitar either since I cannot find any stamps or writing inside the guitar. It appears to be all original and better quality then most of the Harmony made cheap acoustic you find out there. This one has a wonderful huge deep V shaped neck, although it does need a neck reset as the neck angle is out a mile and the strings are quite high as a result. The top, back, sides, and neck are all finished in a tobaco sunburst with a tortise shell pickguard and cream binding on top and back. This guitar features ladder bracing. This guitar has a nice pearl inlaid headstock, unlike most SS Stewart guitars I've found on the internet. Not sure if this makes this guitar really old or a higher priced model from back in the day. I'd love to know how old this thing is.... I'm thinking maybe 1930's but I really don't know. Must do some more research on this guitar!
The plan at the moment is to do a neck reset and get this guitar playing good. Wonder how it will sound?
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Bryan Gibson
2/9/2016 12:14:38 pm
Hey,
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2/3/2020 07:19:03 pm
I have a round-shouldered variation of this guitar. By the 30s, Samuel Swain Stewart no longer built guitars, they were made with "S S Stewart" or sometimes "Stewart" labeling by Harmony, Kay, United, Gibson, Martin and... R S Williams and Sons in Toronto, Canada. Williams also owned the Bellevue School of Music in London, Ontario, Canada and made "Bellevue" branded guitars that were obviously built by the same maker as both my example, and yours.
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2/3/2020 07:54:57 pm
About half way through this page I have comparison photos of my guitar and a "Bellevue" branded instrument and you should see some definite similarities with yours as well. https://mydirtyguitarhabit.com/ok-so-ive-bought-this-guitar-and-its-really-cool-but-what-is-it/
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