Made around 1930 by Jack Abbott, son of English Banjo maker JD Abbott. Little is known about this guitar. I've owned it for the past 36 years. It was a basket case after the original owner painted cows on the front and cut a round sound hole. Not happy with the cows, I had Chris Finch from Maton refinish the guitar in Black about 20 years ago and several years before that Rama guitars installed a low-output humbucker. During the refin I had all the metal parts 24k Gold plated (don't ask me why) and replaced the tuners (can't even remember if it even had tuners) with sealed Schallers. So much for originality - what can I say? I was young.

It is one of the sweetest playing guitars from the early 1900's I've seen. The neck is medium (not too fat, not too thin - like me actually) and the frets are original. The neck is dead straight and the action is faster that it has a right to be on a guitar from the '30's.

I'm planning to replace the pickup with something else and the tuners are changing to Gold Waverly's, so if you're interested, factor that into your thoughts. The case is a non-original plain-Jane but oddly I haven't been able to find anything better. This is not a collector, it's just a really nice guitar.