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PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:47 pm 
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:cry: Found this while looking on ebay today. How could anyone do that to such a beautiful guitar. To each his own I guess but I think it is a tragedy and hope whomever gets it will remove the Bigsby and restore it to it's original beauty.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Electra-Electric-Gu ... 7C294%3A50

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:38 pm 
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I don't think that is a Tree Of Life but a bolt neck early model
cheapie that has been "pimped out/destroyed/kustomized
tricked out/ruined/improved" or whatever you would call it.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:47 pm 
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...at least it's not a Kahler!


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:08 am 
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I thought that at least some of the original Tree of Life models were bolt ons. It looks like they left the original setup for the tailpiece in place so a Gotoh metric tail piece should fit.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:45 pm 
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early Super Magnum...


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:47 am 
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Its an early Super Magnum (were made both in a bolt on and set neck version)..it can easily be restored.....I dig the LS headstock


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:19 am 
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I like it, the Bigsby makes it look sort of elegant.
But that shoddy pickup has to go.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:33 pm 
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did someone here snag this?


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:22 pm 
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These are rare and should be desirable! Still fetched a premium price!

The Bigsby is easy enough to lose. Bet you could recoup about $100 of the original purchase price putting that trem back up on Ebay!


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