Folkway Music - late 40’s Regal Small Jumbo, X Brace Conversion by Mark Stutman

Here's a soundclip of a 1940's Regal Small Jumbo that has been X-braced by Folkway's Mark Stutman.
The guitar sold prior to us listing it on our website, but we did manage to shoot this video with Jason Fowler a while ago, which hopefully shows a little bit of what it's all about.
The X brace conversion process has been documented in a blog post on our website. Here's a link to it, if you'd like to know more about what went into this restoration/modification:
folkwaymusic.com/blog/1940s-r...

[@TroyEngle]

Great tone, and really fine playing!

[@246810user]

Wow that sounds great

[@Hugoknots]

What song is this? Or original? Beautiful performance and tone

[@GIBKEL]

Just came across this and blown away by the tonal characteristics. Great wood......proper execution... a fine example. Was this built at Gibson and labeled for Regal?

[@TheFolkwayMusic]

Nice to hear it. This guitar was built by Regal in the late 1940's. It was ladder braced originally, but was rebraced with scalloped X bracing that was styled after a 30's Martin OM. The top was thinned, the bridge replaced, the neck reset, and fingerboard reprofiled for playability. Way more work than the guitar was worth, but it was a fun covid lockdown project.

[@jipes]

Beautiful, the bass sounds very warm and precise. Was it laterally braced originally this Regal ?

[@TheFolkwayMusic]

It was originally a ladder-braced guitar. The top was thinned by about 20% and then the top was rebraced with early 30's Martin OM proportions.