Restore this beautiful old instruments and bring them back to life. It is much easier to find old Martins and Gibsons. Today it is very hard to find playable examples of Oscar Schmidt made guitars. Anyways by the time I started playing the electric guitar, the Hondo II name was already retired and they were simply branded ‘Samicks. If the date stamped is before 1975, it is most likely an American-made guitar. Marketed as ideal beginner-instruments, Hondo II was the US brand name for certain guitars built by the Korean Samick corporation., with much modern production of guitars taking place in Indonesia. Availability, affordable price and equally important, superior tone and volume made the Stella guitar to the instrument of choice for many bluesmen. The number would be the last two digits of the year the guitar was made, such as 19 in this example. The OS Company sold their instruments in many rural parts of the southern United States, making them available in general, small town furniture stores and even gas Stella, Stella guitars were produced by the Oscar Schmidt Instrument Company in Jersey City. Types of guitars were used to play the old, rural blues, but the predominant instruments during the 1920's and 1930's were Stellas. The sound of a modern x-braced guitar is far away from the guitar sound you can hear on many Pre-WW II era blues recordings.
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