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Molds at Weissenborn are an interesting subject. Im pretty sure they never used a mold as such at least untill around the mid to late 1920s. Before that, Spanish style construction (workboards of somekind) were used. Its easy to tell this because of the irregularity of these guitars in terms of shape - especially when you look at the guitar from the back.

Now when they had molds, I wonder how they looked!? Weissenborn was originally a violin maker so im sure he was well used to inside molds, but these dont make much sense for guitar construction. So since molds came into use around the same time as Rudy Dopyera began working at Weissenborn, so maybe they were the same as used at Dobro. Who knows.