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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Here is a pic I stumbled across of Glen Campbell's old blond Thunderhead. Unfortunately it has been quite modified; Givsun type humbuckers and different knobs, switches, and pickguard. Also shown is another of the shiney bowl GC six-strings...looks like it is an Artist depth bowl. Glen still owns both of these instruments.
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Nice, but if you want to see a drop dead georgous Blonde, check out Paul Moody's in the pic. gallery.
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Location: SoCal | Sure doesn't look like Glen in those pictures. Who is that?
One other thought, Glen had a toggle switch on his Thead instead of the knob for pickup selection. This guitar looks like it has the knob again. Wayne, where did you find this picture? |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Hey Paul,
I don't know if you got my e-mail, but "The Eagle Has Landed", and "There Is Gold in Dem Dere Hills"! ;)
Thanks Sooooo much!
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Location: SoCal | I got it Norsey. I sent a reply from a friend's computer but it may not have gotten to you. It was my pleasure. |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | I can't check my e-mail until I get home later. You da man!
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Paul, the guy is the tech who does much of the work on Glen's guitars, but I didn't wish to post his name in an open forum. The pic is on his website. Yes, the guitar used to have a toggle switch where the blender control would normally go...one of the changes. Note the "G<>C" inlay at the 12th fret, obviously the old GTH thead.
Hey Norsey, Paul's definitely looks better!
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Hey Guys,
This guitar tech is Richard Beck. His shop is not far from me here in Phoenix and I get all my work done there. Currently he is fixing a broken off lip on a headstock for me. He does great work. Check out his website. I think these guitars were given to him by Glen. If you stop in his shop you might get lucky and see Glen there himself.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Hi Dave, he doesn't own them, he just worked on them. That is why I didn't post the name, in case that was assumed. I agree it is hard to tell by the way he has them listed on his website but I had talked to him beforehand about this.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Yes, kind of misleading when the page says "Vintage guitars collected by Rick". Anyway, I'm sure you enjoyed talking to him - isn't he a cool guy? His work is top notch. Dave |
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Location: SoCal | Don't you guys work at all? |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | He sounds like a good guy indeed. It is great when you have someone you can trust with the "babies".
"Don't you guys work at all?"
Try not to Paul...that's why I started playing guitar!
On a different note, has anyone ever tryed or looked into doing a stop-tailpiece conversion to a trapeze equipped Storm series? This has been done to many an Gibson ES-335 over the years to increase sustain.
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Location: SoCal | Wayne:
I don't think you can do it. The ES335 is a semi hollow body which means that there's a block running thru the body. The stop tail piece anchors into this.
The Storm guitars are true hollow bodies (like a Byrdland), hence the need for a trapieze tail piece.
By the way Wayne, I've saved all of the pics of your Bluebirds on the hard drive, in the "Guitar" folder. Excellent guitars and great pics. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | That's good to know Paul, in case my HD crashes. :)
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GC's old blond T-head