c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6

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c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6

The Larson-built Stahl Style 6 is a 12-fret 000-sized flat top with Brazilian rosewood back and sides and an X-braced white spruce top, colorful marquetry, white bindings and pearl-inlaid neck and bridge. The Milwaukee-based William Stahl Company was one of Larson’s biggest accounts, for whom thousands of instruments were produced during some four decades of partnership. The Stahl-branded guitars are quite similar to Maurer-branded Larsons, but for maple top bracing used in place of the spruce/rosewood laminated bracing found on upper-end Maurers.

This example has just been through our repairshop and has received a neck reset, fret dress, new saddle and bridge pins, along with various bracing glue-ups and a few crack repairs. It now plays easily and well and presents quite beautifully.

With its 15” wide 12-fret body, this Stahl has a strong voice, lots of volume and projection, plenty of fundamental presence, and particularly impressive string balance. Played fingerstyle or flatpicked the guitar has much to offer and is a worthy counterpart for the Martin or Gibson flat-tops you might be more familiar with.

The neck has a round carve and full-feel that fits nicely in your hand. Apart from its 1-7/8” nutwidth the neck has a most contemporary feel. The neck depth at the 1st fret is .925”, the scale length is 25.5”, and the string spread at the bridge is 2-3/8”. We have the guitar set up with 12-54 strings and a string action of 4.5-5.5 64ths.

Original finish throughout, plugged tailpiece screw-holes near the end-pin, original tuners, nut, frets, bridge, and endpin.

With 60’s chipboard case
c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6
  • c.1928 Stahl 000-Sized Style 6

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