1960's Harmony H75 Vintage Hollowbody Electric Guitar w/ DeArmond Gold Foils

Up for sale, a 1960's Harmony H75 in excellent condition and in perfect working order. The H75 was at the top of Harmony's vintage guitar line, featuring three DeArmond gold foil pickups, a figured curly maple body, and tortoise appointments. There's really nothing that can match the balance, clarity, and overall tonal character of a good trio of gold foil pickups. They offer detailed treble, tight bass, and a woody, percussive cut that sounds great when each pickup is singled out or when paired together in any one of seven combinations. Unlike many gold foils, the ones on the H75 also feature adjustable pole pieces, so ideal string to string balance can be achieved. All three pickups have strong output, and when mated with the fully hollow maple body, the tone benefits from both the immediate attack of the maple and the warmth and fullness of the hollow construction. The guitar is featherweight at 6lbs 9oz, professionally setup here at Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar with 11-49 strings and easy-playing action.The maple neck has a round "baseball bat" C-shaped profile carve with generous shoulder and notable heft, measuring .930" deep at the 1st fret and .960" at the 12th. The Brazilian rosewood fretboard retains the original slender frets which still have good meat, showing moderate, uniform wear beneath the strings on the crowns of frets 1-7 and a few areas of light wear into the dark Brazilian rosewood fretboard between frets 1-6. The scale length measures 24 1/4", and a modern bone nut measures 1 3/4" in width. The headstock sports a deep red nitrate tortoise overlay and matching truss rod cover, made from the exact same material as Fender tortoise pickguards of the era, and very three dimensional and glossy. The original Waverly tuning machines are intact, turning smoothly and holding pitch well.All of the extensive electronics work as they should, including the pickup switches and all six Volume and Tone knobs. All three Rowe Industries DeArmond gold foils have their original "Rowe Industries" foil labels on the baseplates, and the pickup leads were spliced at one time and now cleanly repaired and shrink tubed, wired to the original harness (there is no evidence of other pickups ever being in the guitar). The foil Harmony label is also visible through the F hole. Hardware includes the Brazilian rosewood bridge with bone saddle insert, and the rosewood on the top of the bridge has been reshaped with room for adjustment on both bridge thumbwheels. Plastics include a modern multi-ply brown tortoise pickguard and original nitrate tortoise control plate, with a trio of long baton cream pickup selector switches and a sextet of ambered mini Dearmond bell knobs.The Sunburst nitro lacquer finish is 100% original, highlighting the ripples of faint curly flame figuring which extend across the top and back. The finish has vertical lacquer checking, with one spot of light buckle rash on the treble side of the lower bout on the back, a small amount of finish loss adjacent to the neck heel, and some small additional scuffs and nicks on the body as a whole, also largely on the back. The smooth nitro lacquer on the neck has a semi-gloss feel from contact with the palm, exhibiting just a couple shallow marks on the profile length that don’t affect playability.