Knutsen Hawaiian Guitar
Perhaps Knutsen's last 6-string steel guitar - with a label 
previously unknown (same McDuff address and phone number).
Did he run out of spruce, necessitating that straight seam?
(images copyright Don Caviness)
| .Knutsen Archives Inventory Number | HW32 | |
| Category | Hollow Neck Hawaiian Guitars | |
| Body Style | "Weissenborn-shaped" | |
| Current or last known owner | Don Caviness | |
| Year (approx) | 1927-1930 | |
| Label | LA12 | |
| Courses / Strings | 6 strings | |
| Frets | inlaid wood | |
| Scale length | unknown | |
| Neck Joint | hollow, square, taper begins between the first and second frets | |
| Woods | Top | spruce / mahogany? | 
| Back & Sides | koa? | |
| Neck | fir | |
| Fingerboard | unknown | |
| Bridge | unknown | |
| Headstock veneer | none | |
| Binding, trim | Top | none | 
| Back | none | |
| Fingerboard | none | |
| Headstock(s) | none | |
| Soundhole | rope | |
| Inlay | celluloid dot fret markers | |
| Pickguard | none | |
| Dimensions | Upper Bout | |
| Lower Bout | ||
| Body at endpin | ||
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