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Location: SoCal | Anybody watching this one?
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In less than 2 days it's gone from $1 to almost $800... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I stopped watching after 24 hours. :( |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | That looks in great shape. Ever since seeing the pics ( must be a hundred times) of Dave playing his as a teenager (must be a hundred years ago), I've always wanted to get my hands on one and play around a bit. Very nice - going to be interesting to see how high it goes. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | wow! beauty! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | pretty clean.
Who would have ever thought back then they'd go for so much!?! |
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Location: Scotland | That serial number on that one is only a few digits away from mine, which was about as minty as that when I got it for about $300. But since I've gigged the crap out of it for about 5 years it's looking a little tired now. Still, that's what they're intended for. |
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Location: SoCal | Has it been 5 years since you got your T-Head? Wow. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | They must have made a group of them at the same time. The serial on this one this one is just a few numbers lower and the other one I may be putting up shortly (that has all the parts and a case) is B-236. Interesting. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | They did run in batches. Easier for production. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I recall how beautiful was a similar model sold by Miles a few months ago, and for what I thought was a record sales price. This one looks to be in similar condition, sans a whammy bar. I wish my T-Head was in as nice a condition. |
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Location: NJ | What was the MSRP when they were new?? |
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Location: SoCal | $400-$450? |
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Location: Scotland | I have an early catalog with K-prefix model numbers which shows the T-head as $449.50 for the non-vib model and $499.50 for the vibrato version. The Tornado and Typhoon 1 were $299.50, the Typhoon 2 $349.50 and the Hurricane was $399.50 |
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Location: CT | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I wish my T-Head was in as nice a condition. It would be...if you bought this one and put yours up on the block. ;) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by brainslag:
Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I wish my T-Head was in as nice a condition. It would be...if you bought this one and put yours up on the block. ;) |
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Location: Nashville TN. | wow
there appears to no cracking |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Something about that clear finish, or rather something about the non-clear finishes. I have only seen one like this that had any significant finish checking. The sunburst and red on the otherhand... I don't think most of them made it into the 70's without checking. |
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Location: Denton, Texas | "My" T-Head serial number is 341 Paul. |
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Location: enid, ok | Extraordinarily nice... |
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Location: SoCal | I have B-108 although the prior owner may ask for it back some day... 
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Location: Phoenix AZ | B-108 has got some great stories buried inside it. Geez, check out my old Acoustic amp! And that grey suitcase on top of it is a Westinghouse 7" reel-to-reel recorder. Man I wish I had those old tapes!
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Location: Scotland | The seller states that the T-head pickups are by Dearmond. Now, I've always thought they were Dearmonds, they look (and sound) almost identical to the Model 200 Dynasonic pickup used by Gretsch, Harmony and a ton of other manufacturers in the 50's and 60's, and Dearmond has been quoted as the manufacturer several times on the OFC. But, in the patents section of Jerome's site there is a patent granted in 1970 for the T-head pickup with Ovation's Jim Rickard as the inventor. The patent cites Dearmond as references.
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So while the rest of the Storms used Schaller pickups, it would appear that the T-head used a proprietary Ovation pickup and not a Dearmond manufactured pickup as many seem to think. Anyone shed any light on this. Bill? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Hey, suprise to me. I always thought they were D'Armond. I would have to guess that Rickard came up with a wrinkle to get past the D'Armond patent and had one issued to himself. Couldn't have made D'a very mad since I think they made the pickups and the harnesses for Ovation.
All else was Schaller. |
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Location: NJ | Paul;
"You sad b*st**d, you really need to get a life" |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I guess this is his life. |
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Location: NJ | Yeah, I guess . . .
. . . btw, . . who's that lesbian in the yellow t-shirt?? |
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Location: south east Michigan | :D |
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T-head on the 'bay