Circa 1920s Harmony Solid Mahogany Soprano

Circa 1920s possibly early '30s Harmony solid mahogany soprano. One piece top and back, arched back, loud and light (10 ounces). All original, brass bar frets set directly into the neck Hawaiian style, with no separate fretboard, dots are original silver paint. Neck tight and straight, everything tight all around except tuners, which are just right. Plastic soundhole ring. Action is 1mm at first fret, 4mm at 12th fret. Great vintage plunk and old mahogany sound. Has one tight double crack on upper lower bout from getting banged at some point, and a few scars. No cracks top or back.

Comes with standard foam and canvas fabric hard case as shown. Asking $150 OBO with the case. Shipping with insurance $15.

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These are supposed to be pretty awesome if one shaves and slots the bridge and puts in a bone saddle. I was going to push out the little owie, put MOP dots in which I have ready, round the frets, refinish it with a few coats of hand rubbed shellac, and have a little Martin. But I currently have four part time jobs that are probabling killing me. One is already crippling me up via repetitive stress on my hands.

The cases run $55, these older solid ukes without the plastic fretboard are usually well over $100. You can call me to hear it, I can possibly try to load video over the weekend.

OK, now I have five friggin' PT jobs, but at least today my hands feel a little better. Just glad I can telecommute most of my work. I'm going to put this up either on eBay or on my local CL next weekend. Anybody local to me in West LA want to check it out over the next week or so? I am just trying to get down to hardcore keepers, which means only two sopranos.

I have two of these Harmonys from the same time period. They have an amazing sound. If I were to get rid of all but 2 ukes, I'd keep my 1960's Martin and one of the Harmonys.

$150.00 is worth it.

Any interest/offer at all? Uke is on local Craigslist, I have only brand new ukers interested so far. My personal feeling is vintage isn't the best way to go for a new user. I point them at Kala or Ohana pineapples.

I also have a circa 1940 Kamaka soprano monkey pod pineapple with herringbone inlay on the neck and a Ukulele Mfg Co uke circa 1918 for sale (arched back, feather light, nickel silver bar frets, ebony nut and saddle, flamed hog or koa) that I would entertain offers on. My fingers are too stiff and sore most of the time now for soprano scale.

Please PM me if you have any interest.