my 68 goldtop

• Dec 30, 2014

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68goldtop eh!

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my baby, pots date it as a late 68, I have owned it since about 1972 !

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bad picture, but it is a small headstock.

 

• Dec 30, 2014

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68goldtop eh! said:

my baby, pots date it as a late 68, I have owned it since about 1972 !

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bad picture, but it is a small headstock.

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No kidding on bad picture! :laugh2:

Such a beauty deserves some better snaps.

does it have a dotted i? What's the serial number? A lot of these with late 68 pots (50th week per chance?) are actually very early 69s. I have an early 69 myself with all the 68 features apart from the dotted i and control cavity. Superb guitars!!!! I think mine was one of the first with no dot.

 

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• Dec 30, 2014

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That's super cool.
need more pics pleasehotos

 

• Dec 30, 2014

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• Dec 31, 2014

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Nice looking fiddle..

 

• Jan 5, 2015

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mbowen

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Thanks good looking guitar

 

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That's a beauty!

I had a '69 or 70, years ago (dark back). Foolishly pulled out the mini hums because they sucked, and had full sized humbuckers put in instead of P-90's. The headstock had been cracked and beautifully repaired by Jimmy D'Aquisto, after someone dropped it during a gig. Sold it for tuition one semester and have no idea where it is.

 

• Jan 5, 2015

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Thanks wilko for the photoshopping!

 

• Jan 11, 2015

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only shot I have on this computer
has a dotted I serial # is 5179xx
I had a 70 deluxe at one point too. Not a pancake body, one piece neck, biggest volute I ever saw and I thought the mini humbuckers were the most flexible pickups I had,
could mimic full size HB's P90's and strat pickups quite well. But it was kind of a sole less instrument, maybe because it didn't seem to have its own voice, or maybe because people were getting turned off by the newer LPs