Madrid Hawaiian & Spanish Guitars
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- 1931-1940
- Spanish & Hawaiian style flat top guitars
Body:
- Extra large jumbo dreadnought body style
- Solid spruce top with ladder bracing
- Curly maple back & sides
- Four F-holes (Spanish)
- Round sound hole (Hawaiian)
Neck:
- Set mahogany neck with cantilever brace
- Round soundhole
- Rosewood fingerboard with pearl inlays
- Tombstone style (1931-1936)
- Open-book style (1936-1940)
- Nickel-silver frets (Spanish)
- Celluloid flush frets (Hawaiian)
- Joins at 14th (Spanish)
- Joins at 12th (Hawaiian)
- Pearl dot inlays (Spanish)
- Pearl notched-block inlays (Hawaiian)
Binding:
- Celluloid body & neck binding
- 1-ply Neck binding (Spanish)
- No neck binding (Hawaiian)
Hardware:
- Tortoiseshell pickguard
- Rosewood bridge with pearl dot inlays & compensated saddle
- Individual open-back tuners with plastic buttons
- Staggered bridge pins (1931-1938)
- Fixed bridge with retainer bar & trapeze tailpiece (1939-1940)
- Raised pickguard (Spanish)
- Glued-on pickguard (Hawaiian)
Colors:
- Shaded Brown
- Cherry Sunburst
- Dark Cherry Red Sunburst
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