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1912 Oscar Schmidt made Bruno 00 SOLD
This guitar ticks-off a lot of desirable (and rarer, for the time) features -- Brazilian rosewood back and sides, 00-size body with 12-fret joint, finely-cut ladder bracing, and a classic aesthetic. After work, it also sounds lush, full, and velvety. It's got plenty of volume for a fingerpicker, too, and the wide nut one might prefer for that style. When it was built, it was probably intended for gut strings, but I have it strung with 46w-10 steel and the bracing is quite content with that
Made by Oscar Schmidt of Jersey City NJ. It appears as model "1895" in the 1912-13 catalog of Charles Bruno & Son, a NY City instrument distributor. The catalog listing for a Bruno "1895" guitar reads "Grand Concert, Rosewood. Inlaid Edge and Sound Hole. Celluloid Bound Top. Strip in Back. Mahogany Neck. Ebony Fingerboard. Ivory Nut and Heel. Work (completed by Jake Wildwood) included: a neck reset, fret level/dress, side dots install, new ebony pyramid bridge, brace regluing to the back, seam repairs, one replacement fret, one replacement tuner shaft and gear, a new bone (compensated) saddle, and new ebony pins at the bridge and endblock. It has a straight neck, the frets have good life left in them, and it plays with bang-on 3/32" EA and 1/16" DGBE action at the 12th fret, strung with 46w-10 gauges. There's room for the saddle to come down a bunch, too, if need-be. Scale length: 24 7/8" Nut width: 1 7/8" String spacing at nut: 1 5/8" String spacing at saddle: 2 5/16" Body length: 19 7/8" Lower bout width: 14 3/8" Upper bout width: 10 1/4" Waist width: 8 1/2" Side depth at endpin: 4 1/4" Top wood: solid spruce Back/sides: solid Brazilian rosewood Neck wood: Spanish cedar Fretboard: ebony Neck shape: 16-20" radius board, medium-big soft-V rear Bridge: ebony Nut: original bone Saddle: new bone Condition notes: it's mostly crack-free but does have one (old-repair) hairline crack on the sides at the endpin area and two smaller hairline cracks on either side of that towards the back/side seam. There's also one tiny hairline crack at the very end of the fretboard running to the soundhole. All of these are stable and good to go. The bridge, saddle, and pins are all replaced but the rest of the guitar is original. The fretboard extension over the body drops-off from the rest of the fretboard. It plays normal to fret 14, however. There is just the lightest "shadow" of a tailpiece on the lower bout and 3 filled screwholes above the endpin. A 1910s-era tailpiece had been added to it at some point. $SOLD via PP for AGF members. Includes standard shipping to CONUS. Will consider trades or trade/cash offers for: 1930’s-50’s Martin 00/000-17 or 18 with substantial neck profile 1930’s-40’s Gibson L-00 with substantial neck profile and nut width 1940’s-50’s Gibson LG-2 or LG-3 with substantial neck profile and nut width Martin Custom Shop 00 with substantial neck profile and nut width Boutique builder concert/00 guitar with substantial neck profile and nut width Last edited by justabram; 02-13-2020 at 12:37 AM. |
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Bump for a wonderful vintage 00 with a mysterious past.
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Abram 1935 Supertone/Harmony Round Hole Archtop 1936 Regal Junior Jumbo (Double X brace conversion) 1952 Martin 00-28g 1962 Guyatone ES335 copy 1992 Dana Davis/Melbourne L00 2018 Emerald X20 2019 Rob Collins/Tin Guitar Tenor Ukulele 2021 Ibanez AELFF10NT Misc. |
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Maybe I missed it, but how is the top braced? Ladder, X, fan, or ? A shot or two of the insides would be nice.
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Bumpidity bump.
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Abram 1935 Supertone/Harmony Round Hole Archtop 1936 Regal Junior Jumbo (Double X brace conversion) 1952 Martin 00-28g 1962 Guyatone ES335 copy 1992 Dana Davis/Melbourne L00 2018 Emerald X20 2019 Rob Collins/Tin Guitar Tenor Ukulele 2021 Ibanez AELFF10NT Misc. |
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Long overdue bump
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Ugh..that's pushing all my buttons, what a beauty.
But the purple stairs... |
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She’s a beauty, for sure. The stairs aren’t mine. Of the two, I’d much rather have the guitar.
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Sunday morning bump. Starting to think that letting this one go might be a mistake.
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Link to video of this guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBuY...ature=youtu.be |
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Spit-balling here but other similar Brunos I've seen are ladder-braced.
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DS is absolutely correct. I took a few internal photos and this guitar is most definitely ladder braced. I apologize to all for my error. The guitar doesn’t sound ladder braced to me. Listen to the guitar via the link earlier in the thread if you’d like to hear for yourself. Ultimately, sound, like playability, is subjective. But to be clear about facts: the guitar is ladder braced.
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Super Bowl Sunday bump
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