This is a Genuine 1934 Harmony Moonlight parlour guitar completely restored with a maple fretboard and birch back and sides.

This one has a lovely bright top end on it and plays very smoothly. Very comfortable guitar and quite loud for its size. These stenciled guitars go like cookies so be quick

$1450

This little baby came to us in pieces but right away we saw its potential. Completly structurally reinforced, oversprayed in nitrocellulose vintage tint lacquer, compensated and setup this baby is now restored to its former glory!

A sharp V-neck, light resonant construction and brazilian rosewood back and sides reminds us that this is a beautiful guitar from an almost forgotten era. Surprisingly loud, a bright top end with a nice clear tone and not to mention bucket loads of warmth and resonance.

$2900

There are sooo many old Japanese acoustic guitars out there. Some are lying under beds, some have been bequeathed to younger members of the family and sadly, way too many will eventually end up at the dump. We love nothing more than to get our hands on these under appreciated beauties. Why? I hear you say. Well, it’s like this.

1. Build Quality. The Japanese were for many years the masters of replicating everything from cars to guitars. Their attention to detail was nad still is meticulous, especially when it came to copying and replicating American guitar design.

2. Materials. The timbers used to make these guitars were sourced from every corner of South East Asia. These timbers were “old growth”; in plainer words, the timber was taken from established forests. The advantages of this type of wood are long term stability and strength. Further to this, many of these timbers were species that are now on the endangered list and are therefore illegal to log and/or export. Now, while we consider the cutting down of established “old growth” forest timber a crime, it would be an even bigger crime not to make the most of what is already there. Whilst the build quality of the modern Asian made guitar (i.e. China, Indonesia, Vietnam etc) is exceptional, most of the timbers used are “plantation” timbers or more overly “new growth” timbers. Though this forestation is certainly light years ahead ecologically, it tends to yield timber which is brittle and can be unstable, making many repairs, such as a broken headstock untenable.

The moral of this story is simple, if you have an old Terada, Yamaha, Ibanez, Suzuki, Yairi, Tokai, Takamine, Emperador, Morris, Pearl or Tama (yes! they made guitars to) just to name a few, you probably have a guitar that given the right bit of TLC will wipe the floor with most of its modern competitors, including those beautiful guitars that cost $2000.00 plus. Ok Then, enough of my yacking, enjoy the pictures.

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This old girl is just a tad bigger than a 000 size and therefore has a little more bottom end. A ground up restoration has just been completed using our vintage X brace modification.We have ascertained that she was Built somewhere between 1910 and 1920 she sports a solid……back and sides, a solid Adirondack soundboard and a Brazilian rosewood finger board. I only wish we could source more of these gems. Priced at 2300.00 inc case she is a bargain (Q. how do we date these guitars? Plse refer the FAQ section)

These beautiful all solid mahogany Grand concert (00 size) guitars were built by the Harmony company of Chicago in 1959. We rebuild them from the ground up. We use the same techniques here as we use in all of our vintage restorations. This also includes the use of Recycled piano timber to replace the original bracings. We usually have at least one of these either on the way from America or on it’s way to being finished. Oh!!!!what do they sound like! You gotta hear one to believe it. They are loud and fulsome. The bottom end is fat, but compressed, the midrange is round and the tops are surprisingly crisp given that we are talking about a mahogany soundboard. The lack of “boom”makes these guitars great recording and/or live guitars. PS. Want to know about appropriate (non invasive) pick up systems? Refer our “ Unique and exciting ideas” page. The average price for one these truly unique guitars is 1700-1900.00AUD inc case

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A parlour guitar from the decade of 1910. Yep we fully restored, repaired, re-braced, re-glued, re-sprayed, and reloaded this baby to a pristine condit, ready to re-use.

Come on in and have a play because the tone and resonance of this little beaut has to be heard to be believed.

An old harmony parlor guitar from 1934. Now, if that wasn’t enough cool for you to handle we thought we’d guild the front with gold leaf ‘yeah baby’ and if THAT was enough we even put a decal of a girl with turquoise hair on it.

Solid rosewood back and sides make it sound as good as it looks. Super bright, resonates while you go and grab a sandwich and is loud in every sense. One word, rad, man.