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1930's Regal Diamond Head

If the warm breezes and endless sunsets of Honolulu are not in the cards for this winter, perhaps we can offer this guitar as an able substitute. Likely built by Regal during the mid 1930\'s, this instrument\'s top features a stenciled and hand-painted scene labeled \"Diamond Head Honolulu\". The paint job is eerily reminiscent of the famous Kel Kroyden Volcanos (which we\'ve encountered on other Regal branded guitars) and might be the work of the same artist or shop. Ladder-braced, this guitar is roughly 00 sized, and is made from solid mahogany and spruce. The bridge is a semi-professional replacement, and the neck has been semi-professionally reset. The guitar plays OK with semi-high and semi-useable action. Big V neck, 1-13/16\" bone nut. It\'s a good sounding guitar, in a ladder-braced kind of way, which will appeal to the country-blues players in our audience and that sparkly celluloid fingerboard should appeal to those of you who dig these cool-as-heck-but-quite-rustic vintage beasts.


1930's Regal Diamond Head

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