Details
This Delphi Vintage Steel was built in 2005 in National Reso-Phonic's San Luis Obispo workshop. It has a steel body with a rubbed finish, a 12-fret maple neck with an adjustable truss rod and a rosewood fretboard. It has it has rolled-edge f-holes and a ribbed sieve-hole resonator coverplate. This guitar is in excellent structural and cosmetic condition with just a bit of fret wear.
Steel body Nationals like this have a slightly sweeter, mellower tone than their brass body siblings like the Style O. Metal body instruments are very popular with guitarists who play bottleneck-style slide but musicians who play 1920s jazz, old-time country and jug band music find the Delphi’s powerful sound hard to resist.
Specs
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Back sides
Steel
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Binding
Ivoroid (neck)
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Bridge
Maple Biscuit
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Fingerboard
Rosewood
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Frets to body
12
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Neck material
Maple
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Neck shape
V
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Nut width
1 13/16"
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Scale length
25"
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Top material
Steel
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Total frets
20
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Tuners
Nickel Open Gear
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Year
2005
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Case type
Original Hardshell
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Serial number
VSD-1662
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SKU
NRPDELPHVIN1662
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UPC
141676
