Our Two
Finest Guitars
For 2009
two
OG3
OG6S
OG3
• Tree of Life fi ngerboard inlay
• Decorative wood marquetry
• Select spruce top
• Mahogany body
• Rosewood fi ngerboard & bridge
• Chrome die cast tuners
• Fully adjustable truss rod
• Mahogany neck
OG6S
• Solid spruce top X-braced
• Rosewood body
• Herringbone top binding
• Rosewood fi ngerboard
and bridge
• Gold die cast tuners
• Fully adjustable truss rod
• Mahogany neck
• High gloss fi nish
Th
e Oscar Schmidt Company
was founded in 1871. By the
early 1900s, the company
had fi ve factories in Europe
and a factory on Ferry Street
in Jersey City, NJ. Th
ey made
all kinds of stringed
instruments including
guitars, banjos, mandolins,
ukuleles, zithers, and Autoharps
®
.
In the early 1920s Oscar
Schmidt instruments were
sold in many rural parts
of the country where music
stores did not exist. Blues
musicians and country guitar
pickers living in areas of the
south and Appalachia
performed with our
instruments because of their
superior tone and volume
characteristics. In the years
before amplifi cation the
projection of sound was very
important and Charley
Patton is said to have
preferred his Oscar Schmidt
Stella to a Gibson guitar
because the Oscar Schmidt
was louder. It was during the
1930s that Leadbelly’s
famous Stella 12-string
guitar was produced. Oscar
Schmidt continues to
produce quality musical
instruments, known for
great sound and easy
playing at aff ordable
prices. Try one and
you will be convinced!
