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PAWN SHOP PRIZE Roger Zimish
CLASSIC AMERICAN MADE PEAVEY T-60 GUITAR
is another man’s gain. But when it comes to
provide extra stability along with 6 in-line tuners.
For guitar shoppers that want a truly American
guitar shopping, the winner gets the prize.
The guitar is not lacking for tone options with
guitar and want to stay below four digits,
its tone controls and coil taps that cover full
cruising pawnshops are ideal. You never know
Recently I came across an American made
fat humbucking to telecaster tones and almost
what you might find. Pawnshops usually tend
Peavey T-60 guitar with its original hard shell
everything in between. The bridge is made for
to buy gear as low as possible while still being
case! The big deal here is that not only is the
thru the body strings with 6 individual string
as fair as they can to their customers, and
guitar American made and selling for around
saddles for fine-tuning intonation and string
then resell it, of course, for a profit. Most times
$400 bucks, but it has the “Original Hard
height. Another bit of history, “This was the first
people will need to get a loan on something,
Case”. There is nothing else out there that will
guitar constructed using computer controlled
and for some unknown reason don’t pick up
fit into one of these Peavey guitar cases as well
carving machines, a technique borrowed
their pawned items after their allotted time
as a Peavey does because they are molded for
from gun stock making, and is now standard
period, thus making the item property of the
their guitars. You really can’t have one without
practice among mass production guitar makers
pawnshop and available for sale to the public.
the other.
today.”
A bit of Peavey history: Founded in 1965 by
On a side note, I have owned several Peavey
Hartley Peavey in Meridian, Mississippi, they
guitar amps over the years and still have one
started making amplifiers and speakers. In
today. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Van Halen, and Joe
the late 1970’s Hartley wanted to make a fairly
Satriani have endorsed and helped design
inexpensive guitar alternative to the Fender and
some of their amps over the years, so it’s not
Gibson brands. Working with designer Chip
a bad idea to keep an eye out for their amps in
Todd they introduced the T-60 guitar, the “T”
pawnshops either.
It’s sometimes unfortunate that one man’s loss
is for Todd.
Overall, the Peavey T-60, or any of their other
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The T-60 has a Fender style maple neck,
American made guitars, is a pretty cool addition
contoured offset double-cut away with a
to the stable for the guitar collector. Remember
rounded ash body, 2 humbucking pickups, 2
when shopping the pawnshops that there’s
volume and 2 tone controls. The neck on this
nothing wrong with making them an offer on
T-60 is their patented “bi-laminated” maple
that guitar you’re interested in, you just might
neck that has opposing grain directions to
get the deal of the day.
Jul Aug 2016
CollectibleGuitar.com