[PATRICK OGLE PLAYING A HARMONY SOVEREIGN ACOUSTIC GUITAR]

PATRICK OGLE: This a Harmony Sovereign. It is a Korean one. There is some question as to what the years are. I think it's a '70s but it's kind of hard to tell because one of the things somebody here did was they tried to rip out the label that said made in Korea on it, which is if you're trying to sell it you probably don't want it. You'd rather have people think it was made in America. And while they make fine -- I mean there are some decent guitars made in Korea, fine guitars now, there's actually a couple of brands that are pretty decent. Probably in their early days they weren't so fantastic.

One thing about these guitars also is that it's shocking to me that it's held up as well as it has because it had no case. It came with no case. I bought it, had no case, you can see there were like cobwebs in it. It has held up okay aside from problems with the action being way too high, the truss rod's [SOUNDS LIKE] squirrely, the bridge needs work because it needs to be just kind of way lower that you got to lower the action on it. I hate these things too, these pop-out things for the strings. I despise them, and it seems like every guitar I own has them. I don't know why.

[PATRICK OGLE PLAYING A HARMONY SOVEREIGN ACOUSTIC GUITAR]

It's a difficult guitar to play if you get past like fifth fret because the action's really high. In some ways that's good. I mean it's kind of a great -- I would recommend these guitars, this kind of this guitar, as kind of a beater guitar. The guitar you're going to buy and take camping with you or the guitar you're going to buy and practice, you know, to help make your fingers stronger because the action is ridiculously high.

I guess if you get some of them that are older, their nicer guitars. The wood's better, the craftsmanship is better, but all in all they're pretty decent guitars, and you can pick them up relatively cheap. You can find a lot of these on various auction sites, and you don't -- The funny thing is you will not see them very often, these or any Harmonies, in guitar stores. I go into, you know, like guitar stores where they have, you know, a lot of used guitars and I guess the reason is it's just not worth it for like a store to sell a Harmony because, you know, what are they going to get for it? If somebody comes in, "I want to sell this guitar. You know, I want to sell this for 50 bucks," well, I can go to an auction site and sell it for, you know, $120 or more maybe. Why would I sell it to a store for $50 so that they can sell for $120?" And the store it just doesn't -- It probably doesn't make sense for them to have a lot of these sitting around so you just -- you almost have to get them from somebody that has one sitting around. I'm sure there are stores out there that have them but I pretty much have never seen the, you know, this kind of guitar.

Sometimes you find like old Kays or some of them really old ones and are trying to sell them as like these fantastic vintage guitars which they are not. That's one of the things about the Harmonies also is that you can be sure that Harmony they are always wood. They were made out of them. They didn't use laminate. They didn't use any of that stuff. They're made out of wood, so you know as long as you don't go crazy and spend too much money on the Harmony acoustics, I think they are a fantastic buy. Keep bringing these junkie Harmonies in here and show them, "Look at my crappy guitar," and, "I'm spending a bunch on money to get it fixed." Well, this one I'm not going to spend a bunch of money to get fixed, and neither should you if you get a Korean Harmony, but if you can get one for a hundred bucks, get it.