I have a Silvertone 1429 Iced Teaburst and I have looked everywhere for an easy fix for the grounding issue! Thank you so much, saved me from having to drag out the guts.
That is a really neat old guitar. Nice repair. Sounded pretty good to me over the old RUclips at the end. I have read that Harmony's ebonizing process often causes those fret boards to rot or disintegrate over time.
Cool to see one of these on here! A friend who has also restored a bunch of these believes the wood used for the fingerboard was actually dyed pearwood. The top arch doesn’t look too bad on this one, but starting to see the telltale signs of the client needing to adjust the pickups and polepieces up to compensate. I’d like to see the process of restoring the arch to one that has flattened out. No top bracing on these, correct? Also, really nice work as always!
Great video! That old Espanada may have been built with a low budget in mind but it looks in excellent condition for its age, and a very playable instrument after your work on it. Are those pickups DeArmond speed bumps?
@@henryhunter5026 Thank You Henry! I didn’t notice or really pay attention to the pickups but hopefully the owner will chime in. He’s a RUclips subscriber from Mississippi
This is true for the two models you have, but they used rosewood even on their budget acoustics like the H162. I have a 1959 'burst...well Harmony H70 Meteor but still..and these have rosewood fingerboards, so do the electric top-of-the-line H75 double cutaways.
I need a silvertone “In my life”
Great song thanks for the video Scott ❤ from England
@@savedaz 💯
i have many guitars, i love them all, but old harmonys and silvertones make my heart beat with joy.
Killer Gibson pickups in that beast. Feedback monster !
I have a Silvertone 1429 Iced Teaburst and I have looked everywhere for an easy fix for the grounding issue! Thank you so much, saved me from having to drag out the guts.
@@davidethridge5748 Fantastic!
Sounds good 👍
Another interesting video!
@@earlsinstrumentsandtunes9732 Thank You Earl!
You had me at "Silvertone" :)
@@shadowstorm1928 Thank You Gerald! 😊
That is a really neat old guitar. Nice repair. Sounded pretty good to me over the old RUclips at the end. I have read that Harmony's ebonizing process often causes those fret boards to rot or disintegrate over time.
@@petertiffany8096 thanks Peter! I believe you are right because I’ve seen the poplar fretboards rot and the poplar necks survive just fine
Yeah 1st comment .. I'm glad things are back to normal for me so i can keep up... Morning scotty
@@stealingtomorrowband rock on 🤘😎🤘
Cool to see one of these on here! A friend who has also restored a bunch of these believes the wood used for the fingerboard was actually dyed pearwood.
The top arch doesn’t look too bad on this one, but starting to see the telltale signs of the client needing to adjust the pickups and polepieces up to compensate. I’d like to see the process of restoring the arch to one that has flattened out.
No top bracing on these, correct?
Also, really nice work as always!
Great video! That old Espanada may have been built with a low budget in mind but it looks in excellent condition for its age, and a very playable instrument after your work on it. Are those pickups DeArmond speed bumps?
@@henryhunter5026 Thank You Henry! I didn’t notice or really pay attention to the pickups but hopefully the owner will chime in. He’s a RUclips subscriber from Mississippi
The pickups are Gibson P13s. The harnesses for these and several other Harmony instruments were made by Gibson under contract as an OEM supplier.
@ Thanks, I’d forgotten about the P13 Gibson pickups that were fitted to some Harmony guitars.
I have a '63 Harmony H17 and a '67 Rocket H59. My understanding was Harmony didn't use rosewood or ebony for fretboards. They dyed maple black.
This is true for the two models you have, but they used rosewood even on their budget acoustics like the H162. I have a 1959 'burst...well Harmony H70 Meteor but still..and these have rosewood fingerboards, so do the electric top-of-the-line H75 double cutaways.
Ever consider adding black dye to titebond when using it on black finished guitars?