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Location: Upper Left USA | T Head Body
Looking for some validation on this item if any of you Ol'timers can remember!
Now I just need to plod on about getting the rest of the pieces or making it a hallowed piece of memorabilia!
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Location: Caribou, ME | Tough call. I'd vote to just leave it be, a wallhanger with historical significance.
A few years back I bought a top and back set leftover from when Gretsch was in Arkansas. I did make that into a thin hollowbody and don't regret it.
But at the same time I bought a neck through body core and walnut body halves from the same warehouse. It was for the Gretsch Committee I think. I began the assembly/refinement process but sold it before I completed it. I wish I had just left the pieces alone and hung it on the wall. |
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Location: SoCal | I think you need to build me an ES 175 type guitar.... |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | +1
AJ :D |
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Location: Ohio | I think Woody needs to leave some stuff for someone else to buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with the ES175....Be a REALLY nice piece! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Is there an arch in that body? Can't tell from the photo. Based upon photos on the Hamer workshop blog, it seems this body may have been built with no intention of becoming a finished guitar. Not sure how easy it would be to make the transition now, but if anybody can do it, I suppose it would be the Woodster. If it was me, I'd figure out some other purpose for it and leave it just like it is. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | If it is, in fact a sample sent from EU to provide tooling and set up then it needs to remain in its original condition.
It could easily be copied.
when the rest of the world wakes up and realizes what the Ovations were about it may have some collectible value beyond the handful of nerds like us. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | that looks like the fat body, sent as a sample but never used.
they were all made in Germany, I think by the same supplier that supplied Framus. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Thanks Bill, likely to leave this alone for a while.
Got enough lamps... |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Just-in-case, remember I have that one-off maple neck, K-bar bolt-on, ostensibly for a shallowbowl acoustic, that just might fit that body.
Maybe not- needs to be a bolt-on- the other direction. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | The Bolt Holes can be retro-fitted...
Should we discuss this in Portland? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | HUH? I'm not going to Portland. My pilgrimage will be to Richland, for the Roundback Revolution Tour stop.
I should probably send you photos, though. |
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T Head Proto Body?