National glenwood deluxe

this national glenwood deluxe guitar was made in 1959 in the good old us of a..it has a cream coloured painted surface that had been professionally refinished prior to my purchase of it...the body has a unique shape...both upper bouts are softly pointed with one side higher than the other..there is a german carved border which surrounds the body on both sides.but not all of the way around the bottom bouts..there is a 4 inch area at the bottom where the surface height corresponds to the rest of the surface of the front of the guitar body...the tuners are grovers...it has a wooden bridge...someone has changed out the original bigsby tailpiece for one made by gibson..the neck is likely rosewood... it has 20 frets and is chunky but very comfortable to play...the fret inlays are a series of rectangles surrounding another set of diamond shaped squares that house abalone inserts...the neck is fully bound and it's colour matches the colour of the body as well as the side and back of the headstock which is quite large and houses a metal National logo...the back of the guitar has a gigantic plastic cover that covers 95%of the surface of the back of the guitar body...the neck appears to be maple and i suspect the body is maple too...there is one volume control knob as well as a three position slider...there are also three toggle switches and each toggle switch has it's own volume control knob...there is no truss rod and it is a real mystery to me how the neck is connected to the body of the guitar because it seems to float or hover over 4" of the upper body running down to meet the first pickup..i'm not sure what pickups(there are two present) national/valco/supro et al employed...my gut feeling is that they are single coil.

let me start this section by saying that i own around 30 electric guitars(another victim of GAS i am)all of which are relatively well behaved when i hit the volume dial...i have a peavey classic thirty and a peavey prowler as well as a fender m80 head which i use with 2 ancient marsland projectors(from the 1950's which house six 8' speakers each)..i plugged the glenwood into my prowler and turned up the main volume knob on the guitar just a tad and nearly blew all of the windows out of every house on the street...the sound was truly awe inspiring...after recovering from the blowback i began to tinker with all of the volume knobs and all of the toggle switches and discovered any kind of sound you could possibly imagine that could eminate from a guitar...i play(well i try to play) blues most of the time and this has to be the finest blues instrument that i have ever played...it is head and shoulders above all of my other guitars in this regard...especially the bottom end...i am left handed and i play with the bass strings down...when i play any of my guitars it sounds different from right handed players but this guitar has all the richness and fullness i could ask for..it is a stupendous creature

i purchased this guitar on ebay from an owner who obviously loved this instrument while he had it..he had it set up with the action low and had had a complete neck job done on it...i could not have asked for a better factory fresh guitar (keep in mind that this one is 48 years old)..i have absolutely no complaints in this area

the guitar is built like a brick outhouse...everything about it is solid and as alluded to earlier the previous owner lovingly cared for it..i'm a basement Hendrix...too old and not good enough to gig out...the glenwood has survived 48 years and looks as if it'll breeze through 48 more

hahahahahahaha..i don't think national's produced a solid body guitar for decades..just those resonators for the year 2000 and up..the way i look after this baby hence forth will be my warranty

i am 63 years old..i played when i was 18-21 and then took 40 years off..when i retired i needed something to do with my spare time and getting back into guitar playing seemed like the right thing to do(i never dreamed that i would buy as many guitars as i have in the past 2 years(surprised the wife too lol...i have a lot of odd ball guitars..2 linderts..2 westburys..5 grecos of various sizes and shapes...2 godins...a gibby nighthawk..a gibby blueshawk and a gibby les paul studio..a danelectro...2 kays with a gazillion built in effects each(actually made by unvox/unicord in the late 70's..a supro(tulip shaped)a kawai es175 knockoff and 2 custom built strats... i love this national cause it plays good and it looks good..i doubt if i'll ever see another one again in my lifetime...my youngest son who is twenty and has all of the talent that i was never given may not see big bucks when i finally bite it but he'll have a crapload of really interesting guitars left to him..if anyone out there has any info on this glenwood national i would really appreciate it if he/she would drop me an email