Madrid Hawaiian & Spanish Guitars

Epiphone Madrid Hawaiian Guitar

• 1931-1940
• Spanish & Hawaiian style flat top guitars

Body:

• Extra large jumbo dreadnought body style
• Solid spruce top with ladder bracing
• Curly maple back & sides
• Four F-holes (Spanish)
• Round sound hole (Hawaiian)

Neck:

• Set mahogany neck with cantilever brace
• Round soundhole
• Rosewood fingerboard with pearl inlays
• Tombstone style (1931-1936)
• Open-book style (1936-1940)
• Nickel-silver frets (Spanish)
• Celluloid flush frets (Hawaiian)
• Joins at 14th (Spanish)
• Joins at 12th (Hawaiian)
• Pearl dot inlays (Spanish)
• Pearl notched-block inlays (Hawaiian)

Binding:

• Celluloid body & neck binding
• 1-ply Neck binding (Spanish)
• No neck binding (Hawaiian)

Hardware:

• Tortoiseshell pickguard
• Rosewood bridge with pearl dot inlays & compensated saddle
• Individual open-back tuners with plastic buttons
• Staggered bridge pins (1931-1938)
• Fixed bridge with retainer bar & trapeze tailpiece (1939-1940)
• Raised pickguard (Spanish)
• Glued-on pickguard (Hawaiian)

Colors:

• Shaded Brown
• Cherry Sunburst
• Dark Cherry Red Sunburst

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