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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Has just become available for sale. Limited to only 45 WORLDWIDE!!!!!
Complete details are on the Takamine Fan Club site.
This one is going to be a winner in the same class as the much talked about EF75 except it is being produced in even smaller numbers.
Talk to Al.
Mine is shipping today!!! :D :D :D |
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Location: SoCal | Post a pic or link please..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and this is the response to Lanaki form Mike Markure that started the whole thing!
Quoted from Mike's reply............
Well.... We have built a few very nice units with incredible woods.
The 40th Anniversary model was the first real killer model. we built that with hand selected tops. (The head luthier and I tapped over 400 tops to get 40. We did that for the 75 as well). The back and sides were persimmon wood which we got from a guy that used the wood to make Buddhist shrines. Incredible wood. Flame maple bindings and abalone inlayed purflings. Very nice unit. It was a straight acoustic dreadnought. That was/is a real sweety. That was a $4000.00 guitar and the most expensive Takamine up to that time in the USA. We used a genuine RUBY to dot the I on the Takamine headstock logo.
The GOO 80th was another incredible project. The Grand Olde Opry came to us to build a guitar to commemorate their 80th anniversary. That unit was a total bling bling unit. But actually quite tastfully done. And a monster tone machine as well.
Then we did the EF75. Then the 417. Interesting to note that we developed the TLD line driver for the 75. The one thing I regret about the 40th Anniversary is that it had no pickup because I did not want to cut into the persimmon. Takamine guitars are supposed to have pickups. So from that experience I went about designing a stealthy line driver preamp that could be used in the exotic wood models that I wanted to build.
Very soon we will release the 45th Anniversary model which is another very nice unit using African rosewood which is beautifull and very lively. This model will have some incredible inlay work and a genuine Saphire inlayed in the headstock. Only making 45 of these for the world.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | And as I've heard Mike Markure say many many times over the years, "Dog bite your hide" for posting that. I was doing real well, almost two weeks without buying anything. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well Bill, to be fair, you did make it to the end of the year without "buying" another guitar (even if you did commit!)just like you said you would. |
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Takamine 45th Anniversary
