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Overhaul Completed! - photos of the completed job, including new purpose-made pickguard now added.

09/02/2024 - Sold to gigging player in East Lothian!

- SEE SIMILAR MONTEREY H8010, PAGE VTG 8C.
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For background information please see page "VTG 8D" below.

Bags more character and vintage appeal, for lot less bucks than either the cheapest similar style Eastman mandolin, or the top Ozark "Deluxe" & Gold Tone models of similar archtop type.....currently £659 & upwards for the Eastman, and £599 for the Ozark, at the splendid Eagle Music Shop!

*** Bags more character and vintage appeal, for lot less bucks than either the cheapest similar style Eastman mandolin, or the top Ozark "Deluxe" & Gold Tone models of similar archtop type.....currently £659 & upwards for the Eastman, and £599 for the Ozark, at the splendid Eagle Music Shop!

Stock Numbers: VTG1472.

Exceptionally tidy vintage Harmony Monterey Mandolin, all original, except for the replacement for the missing the original pickguard (see "Condition" section below). The usual internal date stamp cannot be seen, but knowing that Harmony produced these Mandolins until at least 1970, and that on their guitars they only started to fit tuner bushings in around 1969, I'm assuming that this one dates from around that year.

Headstock carries the famous "Monterey" model name...for further information and details on the available similar, H410 & H8010 versions in the "Redburst" livery made famous on the Monterey archtop 6-string and Tenor 4-string guitars, I have restored many of, see again "VTG 8D" below.

Generally very tidy condition for 50+ year old Mandolin. Minor normal use marking is minimal for age. All components original, and in good order, except for missing pickguard & mount....see below.

Tuning machines are 4-on-a-plate line etched, bell-end, '60s Waverly style, in very clean & bright condition, working well, as is the Waverly "cloud" tail cover. Original adjustable floating bridge is intact and fully operational.

Brief overhaul work schedule included:

Purpose-make new replacement pickguard from (expensive!) Red Tortoiseshell material, from shape template in the form of an original 'guard from an other similar age & type Harmony mandolin, and fitted using new mounting bracket.

Check frets, undertake light stoning/levelling/dressing as found necessary, and clean/lemon oil fingerboard, before fitting new set of strings, and completing final set-up adjustments.

Action at the 12th. fret is spot-on at around 1.5mm./2mm. Fitted with set of Eagle Puretone Nickel Medium Gauge 11-40 strings. The mandolin could be re-strung with Light Gauge 10-36 strings if preferred.

There is no original case with the mandolin, but I may be able to locate an original, period correct, pressed board type case, or possibly a Hiscox hard Mandolin case additionally.

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Embedded YouTube clip is from the irreplaceable Jake Wildwood, Country Guitar Doctor, entitled "JAKE WILDWOOD - 1971 Harmony H417 Monterey archtop mandolin". Additional link is to the accompanying write up on his blog.