by neelyjohns » Fri Nov 19, 2010 4:22 pm
Look through the f hole, you may find a model number stamped inside on the back of the guitar. I recently acquired one very similar (except for the head stock situation). If you do find a model number, hopefully you don't end up even further confused as I did. I would venture a guess that mine is from the 50's, but it could be 40's or 60's too.
Mine is marked N-4 inside on the back, but it doesn't look anything like any of the N-4's I have found on Google images. Well it does, but mine is completely acoustic and all the other N-4's have pickups, but are otherwise identical. It also looks like a Truetone, but they all seem to have pickups too.
I need to post some pics of mine as soon as I get a chance. I picked it up 6 days ago, and it's still in the process of being cleaned up and refurbished, need new machine heads and that's about it though. I feel your pain in wanting to know exactly what it is, especially if you have plans on selling it. I plan on keeping mine and being content with a really cool vintage guitar (which is supposed to have decent action, stay in tune well and sound nice).
We are both fortunate to have such an axe. Now if I find out that this thing is worth a big huge wad of cash, then that last line of the last paragraph is invalid.
Neely