TM1
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About 1974 I ran into my friend Marc McElwee. He had partnered up with Travis and they started making guitars. In January of `75 I ended up getting the third guitar they built (an Artist model) and the very first one to bear a serial number (#11). About 3 years later I got a black Standard, #1455. It has a coil tap switch. Both are MIA. The black one went missing in the Fall of 1986 and was taken in Corpus Christi. The Artist I sold to Bill Kaman with the understanding that if he sold it, I was to be given the first right of refusal. Well, that never happened and nobody knows where it is.
Anyway I ran into my friend Marc @ NAMM and they are, thru Kevin Burkett, building guitars again. Kevin's doing a limited run of 15 guitars exactly like the ones made in 1976. #1 was sold at NAMM so I bought #2. He does build Travis's "pan" style TBG's that Travis designed and built in 1997. Travis sadly passed away in 2011, but his vision lives on thru Kevin, Marc and Rita Bean, Travis's widow.
Don't know if their are any fans here on the LP Forum, but thought I'd throw it out here..
Anyway I ran into my friend Marc @ NAMM and they are, thru Kevin Burkett, building guitars again. Kevin's doing a limited run of 15 guitars exactly like the ones made in 1976. #1 was sold at NAMM so I bought #2. He does build Travis's "pan" style TBG's that Travis designed and built in 1997. Travis sadly passed away in 2011, but his vision lives on thru Kevin, Marc and Rita Bean, Travis's widow.
Don't know if their are any fans here on the LP Forum, but thought I'd throw it out here..