Early-1950's HOFNER MODEL 494 CLASSICAL-STYLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR

COURTESY OF KEILD ANDERSSON, :

 

       

 

 

The birds-eye maple back and rims - typical for the 494 model.

 

A bridge with vertical adjustment, one of the more unusual features of the early 494 models.          

 

......and the fingerboard cantilevered over the body top, similar to as on Hofner's archtop guitars.

 

A "proper" wood mosaic rosette to the soundhole, and purfled around the body edges.

 

           




 

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