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Location: SF Bay area, California | I've owned my '82 #1619 Custom Legend since '85. It has a Kaman bar with the adjustment at the root of the neck, so no truss rod cover.
I've just been told of a similar #1619 for sale, and I see that it has a 'carved' truss rod cover.
Which models/years had Kaman Bars and which had truss rods, or what was the determining factor?
Thanks,
Mark |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | My '82 1619 CL has the carved TRC also. |
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Location: closely held secret | Seems like someone held forth on this subject recently, but I'm not having any luck finding it with search. K-Bars were introduced on Adamas in 76, I think 82/83 was the phase-in time for the Ovations, starting with the Customs.
I'm sure Moody will tell me if I'm wrong. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I think around '80 or so was when the k-bar neck started creeping into the line. But it didn't happen overnight or on all models at the same time. Dave |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | my 1980 legend 1117 has a kaman bar...serial 210241... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Adamas wasn't till 78. After the slotheads. The first were the Balladeers and then legends (78-79ish?). Custom Legend was probably one of the last to get it so it might be a year or two behind. |
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Location: closely held secret | Oops. Sorry, Bill. I misread, only players and select dealers got protos in 76. Aside from that I only got everything else backwards. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | No problem, it's not your fault. If Cliff hadn't been fooling with that poto shop thing the picture would have been clearer.
And besides, I don't always get all this stuff right either. (It sure is a bitch rewriting history to agree with todays misstatements.) |
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Location: Central Florida | I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Custom Legends got the K-bars circa 82-83. I had an '83 that had a K-bar, and most, if not all, of the '82's I've run across have had truss rods. |
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My confusion on Kaman Bar/ Truss Rod Cover models