Thunderface
Senior Member
Before I fell hard for Guilds, I was a vintage Peavey man, having accumulated a dozen, including three T-60s. Then Guilds came along and I sold my Peaveys to buy more Guilds. But the thing that always amazed me was the quality of the Peaveys for the price. A T-60 in very good condition can regularly be had -- with case -- for under $400! American-made in Meridian, Miss., for under $400!
So I stopped over at Twin Town Guitars in Minneapolis at lunch to check out a sunburst T-60 with a rosewood fingerboard that I saw advertised online. Plugged it in to make sure all the electronics worked and was simply stunned by the condition. The guitar, a 1980 model, either hadn't been played much, or whomever played it took extreme care of it, for it was practically markless. I didn't see the original HSC, but it does have one.
Oh, and the price? $350!
The T-60, introduced in the late 70s, was the first guitar whose bodies and necks were shaped using CNC routers. They also had innovative electronics where the tone knobs, turned from 7 to 10, provided single-coil tones, while turned down from 7 to 0 provided humbucking tones. And there was a phase switch for when both pickups were active.
Like I said, I've owned four T-60s, and this one was as fine as any of them. Maybe it's time to go back to Peavey again, just this once.
The '79 honeyburst T-60, you might recall, is the one I traded for the '77 S-100 which I recently sold to caseygree, who is in the process of having it refinished in antique white. Do you have an update for us, Casey?
So I stopped over at Twin Town Guitars in Minneapolis at lunch to check out a sunburst T-60 with a rosewood fingerboard that I saw advertised online. Plugged it in to make sure all the electronics worked and was simply stunned by the condition. The guitar, a 1980 model, either hadn't been played much, or whomever played it took extreme care of it, for it was practically markless. I didn't see the original HSC, but it does have one.
Oh, and the price? $350!
The T-60, introduced in the late 70s, was the first guitar whose bodies and necks were shaped using CNC routers. They also had innovative electronics where the tone knobs, turned from 7 to 10, provided single-coil tones, while turned down from 7 to 0 provided humbucking tones. And there was a phase switch for when both pickups were active.
Like I said, I've owned four T-60s, and this one was as fine as any of them. Maybe it's time to go back to Peavey again, just this once.
The '79 honeyburst T-60, you might recall, is the one I traded for the '77 S-100 which I recently sold to caseygree, who is in the process of having it refinished in antique white. Do you have an update for us, Casey?