H1200 - Flat Top Cutaway

Spruce top, maple back and sides.

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Top wood	Spruce
Body wood	Maple
All solid woods

Scale

25"1/4

642 mm

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• Chris Slaney - 2008-01-06
  My Father has this model. He has had it since the 50's. He use to love this guitar. Many stories were shared at the kitchen table in relation to parties and frequent gatherings.
  Over the years this guitar without a case was damage from high humidity damage from the climate conditions of Eastern Canada. Some day I hope to restore this for him so he could once again cherish the tones.
  Thanks for this site. Chris Slaney - Alberta, Canada
• Sam - 2008-02-20
  I have this model for a few years now. It has been played a lot in it's life. It was once a G.I. guitar complete with a bald eagle decal (removed now). I have restored it as a player. It really works well for dropped bari style tunings and slide guitar. Unmatched for it's special feel and tone!
• robin - 2008-08-28
  I have a 1956 H1200 looks real nice, good construction,great sound i would like to know more about my guitar but i guess what is important is sound quality
• Steve Jirak - 2014-10-18
  I just purchased a H1200 cutaway from an estate sale. The crown of the original pinless bridge (where the strings once passed through) has been sanded down and converted to a pin bridge. The guitar is strung with nylon strings and sounds surprisingly nice. It has no truss rod, but the neck is straight and the action is low. This is a VERY well built instrument and I look forward to hearing it once it is restored back to an original pinless bridge and strung with steel strings. One curious thing about this particular H1200 is that the wood used on the back and sides appears (from the unfinished inside) to be mahogany, not maple. I wonder is some H1200's were manufactured with mahogany bodies? Hmmm.
• Michael "Hawkeye" Herman - 2019-02-02
  The black H1200 in the 4 photos on the upper left is my guitar. I purchased it for $140 in circa 1980. The body was painted a glossy black when I got it, and it appears to be the original finish, although I've never seen another like it. It had a typical Harmony classical/style through, non pin, bridge, and the rosewood fingerboard was very worn from use. I had luthier Ralph Novak replace the bridge with a custom made rosewood (dyed black) bridge with bone saddle, and he replaced the fingerboard with an ebony fingerboard with Gibson jumbo frets, and he used abalone to inlay my blues moniker, Hawkeye, on fingerboard in lettering similar to the script style of the Harmony brand name on the headstock. It has an under saddle Martin Thinline passive quartz pick-up. It plays great & sounds superb/balanced/full-toned when played acoustically, & balanced & 'fat-toned' when plugged in. Great guitar! I wish I knew if the smooth glossy black finish on the body is original.
• Michael "Hawkeye" Herman - 2019-02-02
  I forgot to mention in my previous comments/description of my refurbished black H1200 cut-away flat top guitar in the 4 photos on the upper left that I replaced the original unsealed/open tuners with Grover sealed tuners.