
Zaphod B
Raccoons-Be-Gone, Inc.
Lookee what I dragged out of the closet!
What you see here is an early 1960's Harmony Stratotone. It was my first electric guitar, bought new for my tone-deaf older brother and handed down to me. I've had it in my posession ever since.
Single pickup, which appears to be a single-coil. A three-position switch with RHYTHM, TREBLE, and BASS positions. A volume control and tone control that seems to just be a top-end attenuator. The bridge is a free-floating wooden affair. You adjust the intonation by just pushing the bridge around on the body until it sounds about right. The bridge is height-adjustable, something not to be taken for granted on a guitar of this quality.
It has a completely hollow body, but no f-holes. It's very lightweight.
I plugged it in for the first time in over 30 years last night. It has a surprisingly nice tone - a warm single-coil sound. It doesn't play worth a crap, as a few of the fretboard inlays, which must be made out of some kind of celluloid, have actually cupped and the edges are sticking up a bit.
But they can be sanded smooth. In the meantime, it just might make a mean slide guitar!

What you see here is an early 1960's Harmony Stratotone. It was my first electric guitar, bought new for my tone-deaf older brother and handed down to me. I've had it in my posession ever since.
Single pickup, which appears to be a single-coil. A three-position switch with RHYTHM, TREBLE, and BASS positions. A volume control and tone control that seems to just be a top-end attenuator. The bridge is a free-floating wooden affair. You adjust the intonation by just pushing the bridge around on the body until it sounds about right. The bridge is height-adjustable, something not to be taken for granted on a guitar of this quality.
It has a completely hollow body, but no f-holes. It's very lightweight.
I plugged it in for the first time in over 30 years last night. It has a surprisingly nice tone - a warm single-coil sound. It doesn't play worth a crap, as a few of the fretboard inlays, which must be made out of some kind of celluloid, have actually cupped and the edges are sticking up a bit.
