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Location: Phoenix AZ | Blonde Thunderhead for sale with OHSC. This is the best condition Thunderhead you will ever find - PERIOD. Unique, because it has all (new) chrome hardware. This is a show piece. $650. delivered FedEx to your door within the USA.
Note - I am away until Oct.2nd and not sure I can answer emails promptly. Hang in there, I will return.
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Location: SoCal | Dave,
I would do it if I wasn't buying palm trees. Maybe when you get back, we can talk. |
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Location: Midland, MI | That is one nice looking jazz box. I wonder if the top is really more 'amber' than the back, which looks more 'white' to me. Either way, nice... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Hm-m-m-m-m-m-m.
Very nice Dave. |
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Location: SoCal | I've got a blonde Thead, like Dave's. The top is spruce and the sides and back are maple. The top yellows but the sides and back doesn't.
I've seen and played Dave's guitar. It's beautiful and I hope that it goes to a good home within the OFC. The price is very very reasonable. |
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Location: Scotland | Not exactly like yours & mine Paul, this is a later "longneck" version. This isn't "longneck" as in longer scale but refers to the fret at which the neck joins the body. Earlier examlpes joined at the 16th fret, this joins at the 18th.
Dave, check your email, I'm interested. |
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| ...i remember seeing a picture of a young 'mr campbell' settin' on a fence and playing that one...
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Location: SoCal | Paul, Dave's over in the far east for a week. He may or may not get email. |
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Location: SoCal | at 7am this morning got a "hi from japan. long trip. good luck on the uke auction."
so I am sure he's busy but does have access. he also said: "i just bought another tenor, plus a martin uke." |
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Location: Upper Left USA | It washed into eBay this morning. Lovely, strong and sweet. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | And no one noticed this is a Tornado not a Thunderhead. The pickups, the "chrome", the pickup spacing...
I have one of each, and they are gorgeous.
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Location: Scotland | Miles, it started out as A T-head (check the inlays & bound fingerboard) but Dave has had Tornado hardware & pickups installed. |
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Location: SoCal | With 5 days to go, Witko's Thunderhead on ebay is up to $600. That ought to be a $1000 guitar. But who knows? Bet it goes for between $700 - $800.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2384&item=3751057797&rd=1 |
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Location: SoCal | just shows that Dave made the OFC a very fair 1st offer. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Hi Guys - Back from Asia and catching up on emails. I'll post later what I saw in Japan and bought (hey, I couldn't come home without a souvenior, right?).
About the Thunderhead. I have received a lot of emails offering to buy it (8 OFC members). Far exceeded my expectations. I'll answer the emails in the order they were received. It automatically went up on ebay a few days ago, because past experience posting sales on OFC generally doesn't result in a sale, but I wanted to offer you guys first crack. I'll cancel the ebay auction assuming one of the OFC guys takes it. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Miles, Tornado and Thunderhead have the same pickup spacing. Earlier Tornado and Thead had wider spacing due to shorter neck. The later ones had closer pu spacing due to the longer neck. This guitar is a long neck Thead, but all the hardware has been swapped for brand new Tornado hardware. Model number is 1233, which is Thunderhead. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hmmm that's interesting as I have and had storms ranging from the early wood-screw necks to the later, and the pickup spacing thing has been 100% consistant on all of mine as one spacing for Tornado and another for Thunderhead. I will have to double-check the scale lengths, but I never noticed a difference. Not doubting you.. just sayin... it's what I look for when I check one out. This is the first I have seen to break the rule in at least 20 guitars. Again, doesn't mean anything... we've seen stranger.
Bill can you shed any additional light on this? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | yeah, please check it and let me know. I've got 4 guitars sitting at my feet right now. Short neck Thead and Tornado: they have the same pickup spacing (4 inches center to center). Long neck Thead and Tornado have the same pu spacing (3-3/4 inch center to center). The long necks and short necks have the neck pu in the same location, that's why there is a gap between the pu and the end of the neck on the long version. On the long neck version the bridge is moved forward, so that's why the bridge pu also is moved forward, making the pu spacing smaller. There are a few other variables that might make the spacing look different than it really is. There were two different kinds of pu black mounting rings. The earliest ones had no ridge on the top and were slightly different size than the later ones with the ridge. Also, I have seen that the exact placement of the f-holes has some variation, but it does not seem to be related to model or year. I can't confirm this, but I was told that Thunderhead and Tornado bodies are exactly one in the same. Only difference is that the back of the Thead body was flamed and the Tornado was not. The difference between Thead and Tornado was just the neck and the hardware. Let me know if your guitars are different. Anything is possible. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | SOLD. On it's way to a new OFC home. Thanks to all who emailed me. |
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For Sale: Blonde Thunderhead Electric
