The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7392   Message #3002019
Posted By: Slag
07-Oct-10 - 04:51 PM
Thread Name: Guitars..what do you play?
Subject: RE: Guitars..what do you play?
Well, I've finally come clean about my guitars in the Blue Ridge thread and the Harmony thread. The BR-6S is my nicest guitar but if I just feel like strumming around it's the Harmony. For that brand and a classical with nylon strings, it has great tone and I don't have to be as careful.

I may start another thread as my third guitar I have not seen mentioned anywhere here at mon chat le boue poisson (is that right?). I inherited my Dad's guitar that he bought sometime in the 30's, I think from Sers and Roebuck's. It is a Playtime Delux. It is in pretty bad shape. The top has several splits running though it. Strings have cut deep grooves in the bridge and I just re-glued the edging around the sound hole back in place-again. Dad had cut the neck down in width and a little in overall diameter so that part is unfinished. The pickplate has "BOB" carved in it in big fat overlapping letters. I wished I'd have left the rattlesnake rattles in the sound box (from his 'Desert' days at Randsberg and Trona) but those are easily restored. The nut has about a dozen grooves in it so you can take your choice when stringing it or if you need to elevate a string off a fret. The black is gone off the fret board under the most played strings. Man! What a great guitar! The first one I ever heard, the first I ever strummed (while Dad made the chord I hit the strings) and the first I ever played on my own.

So's, if'n any of you know anything about this Chicago made guitar, let me know, OK? I'd appreciated. Needless to say, this is my all time favorite insturment, though I don't play it any more, and the strings are pretty loose as they are just for appearance sake. No, she's not for sale at any price, sorry. I just would like a little more information about her.