Magnatone Q & A + My Favorite Guitar Dating Website!

Tommy Martin Young · From: Sacramento-California, USA

I just adopted my first Magnatone! She's got all her fingers and toes and I'll call her fretboard "freckled" - and that's a good thing! Here's her stats for those like me who couldn't readily find them all and didn't know what to bring her home in.

DOB: 1947*-ish Cost: $150 Place: Craigslist, Sacramento
Length: 29" Weight: 3lbs 1oz
Upper bout: 6.5" Lower bout: 8.0"
Output: 7.07k ohms

My question is I was told by the seller that the bridge and nut could be raised, I've yet to change the strings as I want to play with tunings and not break my semi-flats - so can they be raised? I can see they'd be easily shimmable but not seeing the methodology. Need less than 1/4" and there's plenty of room under pickup cover.

It's rare I get a guitar with matching pots - So I used a cool dating site that doesn't judge me...or my pots. https://www.guitardaterproject.org/potcodereader.aspx

Here's what it told me:
Potentiometer Info
This potentiometer was made by
Stackpole Electronics, Inc.
in the 3rd week of 1947 or 1957

This means that (given this is an original part) this is the earliest possible date your guitar (speaker) was made.

*I believe 1947 for this lap steel because it uses the angled pickup cover.

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Thanks in advance!
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The One & Lonely Tommy Young

"Now is the time for drinking;
now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot."
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.)

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