Dearmond M75 Purple Haze Mystery & pernickety stuff

Bonneville88

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It's Tyrian Purple - but have observed significant variation in that color between
DeArmond models - some more toward the purple and some more toward
magenta - the M75 on the left in the photo is such an example.
 

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Yes , the moon Blue is a very "changing" color, i wonder why that is? What kind of paint, I mean, it seems to vary depending on the light or angle you see it from.
 
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Yep...definitly not the purple!
These M75 Dearmonds are nice guitars and were a great addition to the Guild import models when Fender to trying to expand the Guild line. The Gold Tone humbuckers are great pickups and more in line with HB1 than the humbuckers of the day. They are not heavily wound so can be a liitle bright. I have still held on to my Sunburst DeArmond M75.
A subtle note is that, if I recall correctly, is the Goldtone humbuckers only were installed on the Korean made model guitars: Jetstar, M70, M72, M75, M77, Starfire Custom (aka SF4), X135 and X155. The Indonesia made guitars, which have bolt on necks come with chrome cover or black bobbin humbuckers. They are the more heavily wound ceramic magnetic types with thick distortion. Their is an exception to this rule. One the Korean made X145 and one or two Indonesian humbucker guitars a 3rd humbucker which had the Gretsch shaped "H" cutout in the humbucker cover. I have never heard this pickup but assume it is different from the models I mentioned earlier.
I only mentioned this about the 6 string guitars with humbuckers. Their are other models with single coils or 7-strings that are seperate from the 6-string midels.
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The Indonesian M66 has the H shaped “DeArmitron” filtertron style pickups, and the M68 has the dynasonic single coil style pickups. I’m not sure if either were made in the USA like the Goldtones and 2K’s on the Korean models. I have a M65 C with the chrome humbuckers and it actually sounds excellent, I was blown away. But the Goldtones are the best in the DeArmond line IMO, for clarity, articulation, noice reduction, and general badassery.
 
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