#Harmony guitar serial number dating Patch#
#Harmony guitar serial number dating series#

I am now looking to replace the machine heads but could do with some help in finding some that might fit the headstock.

I have since replaced the plastic saddle and nut with bone versions, with great patience and the guitar has come back to life. Unbelievably I got the truss rod to move by adding grease and working the Allen bolt slowly but surely. With lockdown I started seeing the H6565N as a project and attempted to bring it back to life. I moved onto electric guitars and the Harmony was left in the corner with occasional playing in first and second positions. I did reduce the saddle height until there was almost no height left in it but it was still playable. I did try to adjust the truss rod which wouldn’t budge, to the extent that I began to think the allen key bolt wasn’t connected to anything. After a while the high action got to me so I played it less and less. It was my first guitar and I didn’t ask too many questions, just loved the tone and looks. I have a Harmony acoustic H6565N which I bought from a guitar shop in Farnham, Surrey around 1990. I have heard other experts argue for that interpretation of the F and S, though I don't have an opinion on the matter myself. Does anyone have any ideas about the 2 dates? An interesting thought for the author is that this example could provide evidence (not necessarily conclusive) to support the other theory that the F stands for first half and the S stands for second half of the year since the first half of 1962 comes after the second half of 1961 (whereas the spring of 1961 is separated from the fall of 1962 by over a year). I could not find any information so far about why it would have 2 dates, though I could speculate. One says S-61-MO (or MD) and the other says F-62-JC.

#Harmony guitar serial number dating series#

It has the long number/letter series that includes the model (H625) and 2 smaller groups of numbers in different locations.

I have a Harmony acoustic guitar branded as a Silvertone that apparently has 2 different dates stamped on the inside back of the guitar (visible through the sound hole). Your guitar needs an electronics evaluation and cleaning.Don't replace any vintage components unless you absolutely have to.This can be a variety of things from dead capacitors, dirty potentiometers, shorted wires, and even dead pickups.There is no sound coming from the electronics.

#Harmony guitar serial number dating Patch#

Your guitar needs a bridge reglue and often a bridge plate patch.The only fix is to remove the bridge, prep the area, sand the bridge to match, and reglue it. Do not use glue to fill the gaps or drive screws into the bridge to bring it back down.Many bridges are glued directly onto the lacquer which causes them to lift and raise the action.As string tension and climate shift the wood in a guitar, they inevitably need the neck to be steamed off and a new angle carved relative to the body.The strings are too high off the fretboard.Your guitar needs a fretboard planing and refret or more ideally a truss rod installation.Most Harmony guitars lack adjustable truss rods (or rods that still work) and so forward bow cannot be easily repaired.The strings are buzzy or the neck is bowed.Frets are like tires on your car, they need replacing after being used a lot.Do not shove glue in there or drive a screw through the heel.The neck heel is pulling away from the body.Your guitar needs proper humidity and cleats.

Do not try to fill the cracks with glue or put clamps on the guitar to press it together.

This occurs when an instrument is exposed to a climate different than the ideal (70 degrees Fahrenheit and 45-50% humidity) and the wood has shrunk.