| Serial Number | 16128, made in USA |
| Pricing | New Pricing for this model is $2589 Canadian dollars. |
| Neck | Quartersawn maple neck with unbound rosewood fingerboard, dot markers. Truss rod adjustment at body end of neck. |
| Frets | 21 medium frets with no visible wear. |
| Body | Solid Alder body. |
| Finish | Sea Foam Green lacquer in very good shape; one small pressure mark below the volume control. |
| Hardware/electronics | Factory National Hotplate pickup system, Biscuit type resonator and bridge, Grover Deluxe enclosed tuners, bone nut. |
| Playability/Action | Standard 6/64 action with .012 to .052 strings with wound G ; ideal for a mix of fingerstyle fretted and bottleneck playing. Action can easily be raised or lowered to suit the purchaser. |
| Case | Original National case included. |
| Comments | Purchased new at The Twelfth Fret in May of 2011 and traded on a National Style 0.
While used, this instrument appears new and entirely unplayed: finish is brand new/mint with the exception of one very slight surface dent on the front below the volume control: no finish missing but slight depression visible in the finish. This guitar is specifically designed to suit pro players for live Blues or R & B band applications: at high stage volumes without feedback issues. That said, the make useful acoustic guitars too. There is a large internal acoustic chamber and a surprising level of acoustic volume off the cone. Arguably about ½ the volume of a regular National Triolian or Style 0. Many of my customers tell me the Res-O-Tone makes a wonderful acoustic “parlour” instrument for song writing, practice and general late at night playing where family members would complain if one hammered away on a Triolian. |
