Description
Exc (-) condition. SN: 273
1 23/32″ width at nut. 2 1/8″ pin spacing.
Body is in great shape. Small amounts of previous owner wear. No cracks or repairs except as noted below.
Very attractive old growth Brazilian Rosewood back and sides. High grade spruce top. Tor-tis pickguard. Mr. Noble’s handmade Herringbone bindings around top edge and soundhole. Maple outer bindings on top and back of guitar with multiple strips showing on the back and sides of guitar. Maple center strip down back of guitar. Brazilian Rosewood peghead overlay, heelcap, and endwedge. Ebony fingerboard and bridge. Mother of pearl cut diamond inlays in fingerboard. Amazon mahogany neck with a rounded profile. Ivory nut and bridgepins. Bone saddle. Nickel Waverly pre-War style open-back tuners with ivoroid buttons. Ivoroid strap button installed in heel.
This guitar has had some work. At some point, a repair man didn’t trust Mr. Noble’s bolt-on neck system, and they epoxied the neck heel to the headblock of the guitar. Our luthier John Joyner carefully removed the neck and removed all the epoxy so now the neck is situated very well on the body, but there is some sign of the heat used to loosen the epoxy. Either side of neck heel shows darkening of rosewood where heat was applied in the neck joint. This was a very difficult job, except that Mr. Joyner has 35 years of experience and did it quite well.
Extremely powerful, extremely beautiful tone Roy Noble guitar from 1991. Incredibly wide open with huge voice and huge amount of tonal information. Hard to beat this guitar.
Here is an audio clip of our friend Tim May enjoying this wonderfully handmade guitar.
And more audio, this time from our friend Richie Reinholdt.
