The Guilds of Grot
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Hmmmm...
Custom F-412 BL (SRV Unplugged)
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Well, it's gone from Reverb now (unless it was relisted). 
Cougar
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Right! So that's a little different than some famous player owning the guitar. Still, "This is the guitar SRV used for this gig...." (and here's the pic to prove it) -- that's pretty cool. (Unfortunately, that does NOT mean that you'll be able to play it like SRV.
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It is shown as Sold on Reverb. Anybody here?Well, it's gone from Reverb now (unless it was relisted).
GGJaguar
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But if you can extract SRV DNA from the fingerboard, you can clone your own SRV.
Listed as "sold" on their website. There's apparently folks with a lot of money out there!Well, it's gone from Reverb now (unless it was relisted).
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Sweet merciful crap! Teach me to have a dentist appointment.
F-412Spec
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Very curious here. Back then, was ANY Guild 412 factory-equipped with the big Grovers? Even my old guitar (AE 176) did not come supplied with Grovers. It had 6-on-a-strip nickle or chrome plated gears.
No idea, Brad. As I mentioned, it looks a little odd to me when I look at the amount of the headstock taken up by those Grovers... I suspect those are the full-size ones, but can't say for certain. Whether they were put on at the factory... If you look close up at the back of the headstock, you can see that the spacing between the tuners is a bit inconsistent (sloppy) as is the angle. I'm not sure if that means anything in terms of originality or not. I don't see any outlines of other tuners having been on there, but most of the real estate is covered by those tuners so...
Clear as mud, right?
F-412Spec
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I think it means the tech who replaced the strip tuners did not use a self-centering stepped drill to enlarge the original holes.
I also think the same tech did not bother to determine the ultimate location of the new tuners before attempting to center-drill. The holes would have been best enlarged with the upper edges of the original and new holes being aligned (moving all the new tuners south a bit).
Certainly could be!
donnylang
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The tuners appear to be original, they are pat pending Grovers (I’m not a tuner expert but I think this means 1960s manufacture?).
In any case, the tuners are similar/the same and feature the same high up the headstock orientation of another ‘69 F412 I used to have.
Also note Paul Simon’s ‘68 F412 also has the same tuners w/ the high up orientation.
In any case, the tuners are similar/the same and feature the same high up the headstock orientation of another ‘69 F412 I used to have.
Also note Paul Simon’s ‘68 F412 also has the same tuners w/ the high up orientation.
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More about this guitar - see the end of the thread:
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The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum-Photo Identifying a vintage guitar
https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/index.php ... bl.214737/
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HeyMikey
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Currently $25K with buyer premium, not including tax and shipping. Suitable now only for superstar performers or as a collector wall hanging. Hopefully it goes to a player who will actually use it.
Brad, I was wondering why you revived this, and wow!!! It'd be cool to see a Guild sell for that kind of coin!
And, Mikey, yeah. One hopes it'll get used. I mean, with the Stevie Ray DNA in it I can feel the 12-string blues all the way over here!
And, Mikey, yeah. One hopes it'll get used. I mean, with the Stevie Ray DNA in it I can feel the 12-string blues all the way over here!
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In case you were wondering what happened to this guitar:
SFIV1967
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$71,875 is quite a number...Let's wait where it will end up in 8 days...
Ralf
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It certainly is!
I really wouldn't have guessed that Stevie Ray just playing the guitar would've brought this kind of cachet to the sale. I mean he didn't own it, right?
I really wouldn't have guessed that Stevie Ray just playing the guitar would've brought this kind of cachet to the sale. I mean he didn't own it, right?
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That is a profoundly important video in the history of MTV and SRV. Unplugged was HUGE and everyone I know marveled at how he could play a 12-string so accurately so fast. It’s one of those videos that anyone who remembers the MTV era would recognize if not list as a top video. The guitar is a piece of history used by a sadly lost talent in a world where SRV artifacts are few and far between.
You get someone like John Mayer who is a huge fan with deep pockets going up against mega collectors like Joe Bonamassa and I could see that price hitting 250k or more.