Knutsen Hawaiian Guitar
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| Knutsen Archives Inventory Number | HW8 | |
| Category | Hollow Neck Hawaiian Guitars | |
| Body Style | "Weissenborn-shaped" | |
| Current or last known owner | Tom Noe | |
| Year (approx) | 1914-1920s | |
| Label | full "New Hawaiian Family", yellow | |
| Label Code | LA2 | |
| Courses / Strings | 6 strings | |
| Frets | inlaid wood | |
| Scale length | 25" | |
| Neck Joint | hollow, square, taper begins at the fifth fret | |
| Woods | Top | spruce | 
| Back & Sides | koa | |
| Neck | Douglas fir | |
| Fingerboard | rosewood | |
| Bridge | unknown | |
| Headstock veneer | none | |
| Binding, trim | Top | none | 
| Back | none | |
| Fingerboard | none | |
| Headstock(s) | none | |
| Soundhole | rope, with green ring | |
| Inlay | dot fret markers | |
| Pickguard | none | |
| Dimensions | Upper Bout | 10-1/4" | 
| Lower Bout | 14-3/4" | |
| Body at endpin | 4" | |
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