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Quick notes: 1) This is consigned. 2) I've done it all up and it's ready to go! 3) Please read the following text for full details and specs -- it's borrowed from my original blog post on it...
Most modern National resonators are good but none float my boat quite like the recent wood-body models. I'm always impressed by how lightweight, rugged, and good they sound -- this guy has the volume and presence of an old 12-fret Duolian but with a cleaner, more-fundamental, woody sound. The older vintage National wood-body boxes are not quite at all like that -- they have more of their own thing going which is nice but not as immediately relatable as something like this guy -- which pretty-much sounds "like a National" but with a lot less weight.
Anyhow, this one came-in on consignment and (thankfully) it had already had its neck reset so that was out of the way. Most newer Nationals need the neck angle adjusted after a few years out in the world and not having to do the job (like I had to do on all of the ones previously before reselling them) was a lucky thing. I did, however, give it a glorified setup and now it's playing spot-on and it's ready to go.
It's a clean guitar and only lightly-used and it has a great, forest-green-burst paint scheme.
Repairs included: a light fret level/dress, saddle adjustments and compensation, cone seating (I tack them in place with a tiny amount of aluminum foil tape so they don't shift-around when detuned), setup.
Top wood: ply
Back & sides wood: ply
Bracing type: ladder
Bridge: maple biscuit & saddle
Fretboard: rosewood
Neck wood: mahogany
Action height at 12th fret: 3/32” bass 1/16” treble (fast, spot-on)
String gauges: 54w-12 lights
Neck shape: medium-bigger C/soft V
Board radius: ~10-12"
Truss rod: adjustable
Neck relief: straight
Fret style: medium-wide
Scale length: 25"
Nut width: 1 13/16"
Body width: 14 1/4"
Body depth: 3 1/8"
Weight: 5 lbs 15 oz
Condition notes: it's clean and basically just "shopworn" save for a tiny bit of finish checking right where the heel meets the body on the neck -- something that was hard to photograph, even. There's also a tiny ding in the back of the neck (pictured) in first position.
It comes with: its original hard case.
