May 29, 2018 Google National resonator guitars and mandolins and see if they have a section about their serial. The serial number tells you nothing about the date of the build. If you need to figure out the exact year of your National Style-O guitar, use the serial number. See the National Serial Number Info web page for help determining the exact year.
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National Rosita 1934-35Date:1934 or 1935 (Estimated, due to incomplete factory information from that period)The Rosita model was made between 1933 and 1939. FEATURES:?Painted 2 tone mahogany finish, non cut-a-way wood body?Round single piece un-bound neck with ebonized fretboard & dot inlays?Serial number stamped into top of square slotted headstock with decal National logo?Single cone resonator with 9 diamond shaped hole clusters, ribs, nickel plated resonator cover?Bound top and back?Brass narrow frets?Flat fingerboard ? no radius?14 fret clear of body with 1 11/16? nut?Lyre shaped holes in upper bodyNOTED EXCEPTIONS:?Uncommon tailpiece ?Records state that National started 10? radiusing their fingerboards in 1934 with the 14 fret necks.?No evidence of the neck “sandwich”: first the fingerboard, than a middle stiffening layer (about the same thickness as the fingerboard), and then the bulk of the neck. National started doing this technique in 1934 when they introduced 14 fret necks.DATE ESTIMATE BASED UPON THE FOLLOWING:??f? holes replaced the lyre shaped holes in 1937.?Prior to late 1934, all nationals had 12 fret necks.?Radiused fingerboards began in 1934 (previously flat).?National-Dobro began a move from California to Chicago in 1936?Most National serial numbers have a letter prefix except Duolians between 1935 and 1936:o879 to 37691935o3770 to 67501936oThere are apparently known exceptions to the ?prefix? rule.oLetter prefixes started in earnest in 1936?Square top, slotted headstocks on single cone models ended in 1936Research compiled by Leonard Wyeth
Serial number on a 1936 M-35 metal body. Dobro Serial Numbers. 1929 to 1937 Dobro Serial numbers by M.Cass. Note the 1929 to 1937 serial number info is not very accurate. For example I own a Dobro metal body M-62 with the serial number 1832. According to the list below it should be 1930. But no metal body Dobro existed before 1935.
1948 vintage national new yorker lap steel guitar serial number # v14, 652 dated as 1948 you can look up date code g u i t a r h q. C o m / n a t i o n a l # v a l c o ) great retro vintage sound and everything works does have a few dings and pings paint is cracking in places on it.
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Paul Beard Guitars is a maker of fine resonator, resophonic dobro style instruments Paul Beard has has been building fine resophonic guitars for over 25 years. Paul E Beard has designed and built guitars for Mike Aulderidge and Jerry Douglas.