Description
Here we have a very cool vintage S.S. Stewart A-4000 parlor guitar. This appears to be from around 1930 and is in good overall condition.
Specs include a spruce top, mahogany back and sides, mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard and ebony bridge. It has a 12 fret neck joint, slotted headstock and single ply white guard. It is an x-braced guitar with two tone bars and a maple bridge plate. The nut width is 1 7/8” and the scale length is 24 1/4”. The body is 13 3/8” wide at the lower bout and it has a depth of 3 7/8”.
The guitar shows scratches and dings over its entire surface. The bridge plate has smaller maple saver glued to it. The ebony bridge looks to be a replacement and there are screw holes filled at the end of the body where a trapeze tailpiece was once attached. The tuners are aged modern replacements.
This one weighs 2lbs 15oz. The neck measures .890 to 1.140 at the 1st and 9th frets. It has a full, vintage soft V neck profile that really fills out as it approaches the neck heel. It’s a comfortable neck however, and the guitar plays nicely with the vintage bar frets. It sets up with medium action and the intonation is pretty close. At tension, the neck has a touch of relief, though the action could be lowered a touch at the saddle still. Tonally, it’s exactly what you’d hope: warm and colorful with good clarity and wonderful sustain. It’s an intimate instrument with good volume and a very nice voice overall.
Ships in a modern hardshell case.
