UnknownUser - Posted - 02/10/2014:  16:02:20

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Originally posted by Polle Flaunoe

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Originally posted by petercorfield

 

Thats the part I wondered about...  Aside, do we know if they sourced anything of their construction to sub-contracts... ie. did a separate co. build any of their parts to cut on labour expense?  If not, this points to a "Ride it into the ground approach".  With all that sunk capital after their peak year, Im wondering who was at the money wheel ?

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Except for usual metal parts I don´t think so. Only - Bacon had some nice guitars built by others - to be finished/decorated etc. by themselves.

Also - many banjo manufacturers had gone by early 30s or so.

As for the money - all records were burnt early 40s - so we don´t know about this. Bacon had some sleeping partners over time - Ed Britt knows more about these - maybe that´s were a lot of the money came from and went to. Besides - putting up a very modern, sort of "state-of-the-art" factory early/mid 20s had most likely been very costly.

Polle

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An extension to this specific subtopic - 

It seems that Regal was most likely building guitars for Bacon Banjo Co. labelled B&D- acousticmusic.org/Bacon-Day-Se...-295.html

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"...The crash of 1929 hit the musical instrument industry hard. B&D spent several years trying to find some way to cope with the depressed marketplace. The banjo market appeared to be dead as musical tastes changed so B&D refocused on guitars and mandolins. Unfortunately the mandolin market had also fallen apart. B&D were never geared up to build guitars as they had always subcontracted that work to other manufacturers like Regal.."



"...A spectacular example of a very rare flat top guitar. This Bacon & Day Senorita was built in the mid-1930′s when the Bacon Banjo Company was on its last legs, a victim of both the lingering depression and the declining market for banjos. While the guitar itself was made by Regal in Chicago the decorative touches of pearloid and rhinestone are pure Bacon. ​" - guitarbench.com/2010/08/06/193...database/