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Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa;614487 6A couple caveats:[LIST
[*]FYI the fingerboard is also birch, stained to resemble rosewood and varnished to a gloss finish (much like Fender's maple necks); while I'm not surprised that there was virtually no fret sprout after nearly six decades - even the cheaper instruments routinely used properly-dried/seasoned woods in their construction - I'd be careful with any fretwork if you don't want to take off the finish...
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Although the Archtones were entry level archtops the fingerboards on the H1213 and H1215 were not stained birch but maple which they grained to resemble rosewood. The one thing Harmony was really good at was graining tops to resemble spruce,, faux-flame sides and such.