The guitar had made it through the cold conditions good, has some scratches on the top, looks worse than it is n the picture. It had been laying in her parents old barn (forgtten) outside in the cold for many years, and my parents has their house in the northern part of sweden so its pretty cold during winter time. I´ve started getting really intrested in guitars for some time now, have done some nut replacements etc on other guitars, got intrested and wanted to check hers out. Marketed by U.K.My mother used to play this guitar when she was young. Single-bound rosewood fingerboard with centred pearl dot inlay, rosewood bridge Metal truss rod cover with a star and “1900”, nickel plated tuners Mahogany bolt-on neck with adjustable truss rod Spruce top, flame maple back and sides, 4-ply bound top, single-bound back Goliath size: Body width: 400 mm, body length: 505 mm, body depth: 95/120 mmįingerboard width: 43 mm, scale length: 630 mm The guitar plays really nicely and sounds great, really full and warm as could be expected of an all solid Swedish built guitar from the late 1950’s. I like the ones they used on the Levin LS-18 at the time, they are rounder and look more Gibson like, these square ones look like something from an Egmond or a kids guitar. On my other 1959 Levin LM-26 the machine heads were replaced by open back Grover’s by the second owner back in 1965 and I think I might have to do the same on this one. This 1959 Levin LM-26 seems to be completely original, it even has the cheap looking machine heads that Levin used in the late 1950’s on the LM-series. I have some Levin LT-18 that has a Goya serial number stamped inside and a completely different Levin serial number on the head, I guess these things happens at a guitar factory. Now I have one Levin LM-26 built in 1963 and two from 1959, well they actually both has a body stamped in 1958 but with a 1959 neck, not sure if they did a lot of bodies one year and necks the next. The guitar has been used playing anything from jazz, Mississippi blues to Celtic folk and now country, read Ian’s guitar history. The seller Ian was quite persistent that I added his guitar, that he had owned since his 14th birthday in 1976, to my Levin collection so I of course complied. In the end of March, about 2-3 weeks after I bought the 1963 Levin LM-26, I was offered a 1959 Levin LM-26 that I couldn’t resist, even though I already had one from that year.
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