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Location: Nahant, MA | Paul, your theory makes sense given that there were no -4 Tornados listed in the catalog. I've got the strings off it at the moment but I'll try it out tomorrow.
The body was likely wired-up and ready to be a Thunderhead, but ended up being a Tornado by being decked out with chrome and dots rather than gold and diamonds. |
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Location: Scotland | Exactly. At the end of the production run they'd likely just be getting rid of the parts inventory. |
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Location: Nahant, MA | sorta like the early Ford Mustangs :cool: |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by Carol:
sorta like the early Ford Mustangs :cool: …or Johnny Cash's Cadillac… |
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Location: Nashville TN. | When I went shopping for hollow body I looked at Gibsons Gretch and Guilds (1990 all were used) saw the ovation well I spend $300 of my $2500 budget.
The old Melody Music in WH CT |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by dark bar:
Are they good enough guitars to change out the pups with humbuckers Since you'd have to modify the guitar, probably to the point-of-no-return beyond its' OEM condition, I wouldn't recommend that. If you want humbuckers in a hollow/semi-hollow body guitar, you'd probably be better off looking for a different model guitar…
…and some of us really like the single-coil Tornados just as they are, they're hard enough to find in good shape as it is, let's not encourage folks to start hacking them up … ;) |
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New (to me) Tornado
