Here's an "Airline" branded Harmony guitar. I reset the neck and put on a new bridge. Originally it had a bolt-on thru' strung bridge which was missing, so I put on a conventional pin bridge. These guitars were always ladder braced, and as the body was all in pretty good shape, I didn't even think about rebracing it in an X pattern but just added a couple of stiffening braces either side of the soundhole where it had started to distort.

I also refretted it, as a couple of the frets were missing, and it's a job I hate doing on Stella  guitars, as generally the fretboards are very brittle and splinter out dreadfully as the frets are removed. It's turned out OK, refretted with Van Gent medium gauge hard nickel silver fretwire and it plays fine.

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