Jake Wildwood
May-09-2012, 6:28pm
I just got in this National tenor today -- serial puts it at 1940 -- and it's awesome. It only needed the slightest bit of work to get it up to snuff. 100% original, brass body, great-shape cone, and sounds like heaven. I'm sore tempted, but will have to consider my options carefully -- only so many things to swap out for it... :) -- just wanted to share because it's not often you see these with the pickguard and everything as it should be.
So far I've tried a number of tunings -- oct. mando tuning sounded lush and full but I really do like "standard" CGDA and it's variants (CGCE, CGCG, etc) because I guess I tend to use tenors as lead or "fill" instruments more than singing-with ones.
Anyhow, full blog post with writeup & lots more photos at my blog (click here). (http://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2012/05/c1940-national-collegian-tenor-guitar.html)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--JB-1iYofrc/T6r4j4GfjqI/AAAAAAAAWbY/kmoRbyYsHQg/s1600/nc1.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3XxUGTDZVs/T6r4jiE2V3I/AAAAAAAAWbM/pnMNpyVyklU/s1600/nc2.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JsRf8xqZig0/T6r4LA63UsI/AAAAAAAAWZg/eXqTaY1wrY0/s1600/nc11.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gqhYIJi4YIo/T6r4KlVrdbI/AAAAAAAAWZU/Lqb7EFzrO_c/s1600/nc12.jpg
So far I've tried a number of tunings -- oct. mando tuning sounded lush and full but I really do like "standard" CGDA and it's variants (CGCE, CGCG, etc) because I guess I tend to use tenors as lead or "fill" instruments more than singing-with ones.
Anyhow, full blog post with writeup & lots more photos at my blog (click here). (http://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2012/05/c1940-national-collegian-tenor-guitar.html)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--JB-1iYofrc/T6r4j4GfjqI/AAAAAAAAWbY/kmoRbyYsHQg/s1600/nc1.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3XxUGTDZVs/T6r4jiE2V3I/AAAAAAAAWbM/pnMNpyVyklU/s1600/nc2.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JsRf8xqZig0/T6r4LA63UsI/AAAAAAAAWZg/eXqTaY1wrY0/s1600/nc11.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gqhYIJi4YIo/T6r4KlVrdbI/AAAAAAAAWZU/Lqb7EFzrO_c/s1600/nc12.jpg