The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113976   Message #2543855
Posted By: GUEST
20-Jan-09 - 07:43 AM
Thread Name: Otwin guitars - anyone else owned one?
Subject: RE: Otwin guitars - anyone else owned one?
Last year I got me an Otwin Jumbo from 1965. It is built as a copy of the Harmony Sovereign Jumbo (H1260 I believe). A beautiful guitar in a remarkable state, totally playable, solid woods all around (spruce and mahogony). I had a luthier make a new zero fret and had the Rubner Co. in Markneukirchen, home of Otwin in Saxony, make new machine heads from my photographs and description. It feels like a almost new guitar and the good thing is you're the only person in around a few hundred kilometers or more who owns one! The guitar sounds very particular, lot of mids; amplified with K&K Pure Western Mini on a Roland AC90 I wouldn't want to loose this one.