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I just got this back after a year-and-a-half's visit with a well-known performer...You may have seen the "hambone" Greenfield Hawaiian, or maybe the patent application for it...possibly the thread a year or so ago with the link to the Greenfield section on the notecannons.com website. As far as I know, this is a case of what you see is what it be. Says Number TWO and since there seems to be some history of the Greenfield Brothers' realizing that this design inhibited the bar hand, which led to the hambone shape, I won't argue.

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Sounds like a million bucks, whatever the left-hand awkwardness. That headstock support is original. This was almost thrown away by the original owner's daughter. Fortunately she was persuaded to let it be restored (cracks repaired; looks like back has been off and on; finish restoration) and from there it found its way to eBay and went for a lot less than it's worth.

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VERY COOL!

VERY VERY COOL!

I wonder if the Folk Music Center still has the Hambone style Greenfield. Is the #2 solid wood, or ply? Someone at the FMC thought the one they had was all ply.

I just have to add

VERY VERY VERY COOL!

I saved this pic from an ebay auction several years ago. I sem to recall that it didn't go for a whole lot of $$. I was kicking myself afterward for not taking it but I wasn't sure that it wasn't a homemade folk-art piece. I've always been amused/intrigued by this thing. Glad to read some background info.

Variety is certainly the spice of life.

Interesting conversation piece-but it doesn't do a thing for me.

Each to his own!

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Hi,

Ben Elder sent me the pictures of his Greenfield "log" recently, which I have added to the Greenfield Hawaiian Guitars page at my www.notecannons.com site. The headstock brace is indeed origional and can be seen in the patent drawings which I have also tracked down and added to the page.

I also have added the scans of their 1929 brochure, look for the link to the brochure at the bottom of the Greenfield page.

I've also grabbed the ebay picture posted by Jon Light, and will add that to the pages.

I also have pictures of the hambone belonging to Ben Harper and of another one owned by Jonathan Kellerman the author.

Aloha

Colin McC

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Would anyone know an approximate value of a Greenfield with a Weissenborn-style shape, ca. 1927? If so, please let me know off-line.

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It's always surprising to see what was going on back in the 20's. Thanks, Ben.
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I agree with John - very cool. Thanks for sharing!

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