THE WEEKEND COLLECTOR: Vintage Guitars Info

Where do I start with Clay Harrell's fascinating and fact-filled website, Vintage Guitars Info? Clay not only collects vintage quality guitars, but presents a wealth of information for collectors, players and afficianados. He specializes in CF Martin, Gibson, Fender, Rickenbacker, Dobro, National, Gretsch, and a few others. He documents the history of many many guitar models (as well as a few ukuleles, resonator guitars, lap steel guitars, and other models). 

Mr. Harrell has a great interview published in Collector's Weekly, and I'll link it here. You can get more information there than I could give you by cutting and pasting together his writings and information.

 If you enjoy learning about fine, old guitars, you'll enjoy his amazing website. I'll just leave you with a few photos of some interesting instruments and parts.

1956 Gibson Lap Steel Guitar

Vintage Dobro

Vintage Martin D-28

                                           

Interesting interior shot of a Martin guitar

Bridge from a 1885 Martin Guitar

COLLECTION #52: Old Music Strings

 Aren't these fun? Packets and boxes of vintage musical strings- strings for ukulele and mandolin. I love the great old fonts, and the fun graphics on the packaging. It's nice to have something still in its original packaging, untouched and unused. They are still as bright and shiny as they were when they came out of the factory. I really haven't made any attempt to date these strings, but my guess would be the 20s and 30s. Click on any of the images for a closer view.