info on modern dearmond solid body?

[Guest]

Hey guys,

i picked this dearmond guitar up in a package deal, and cannot really find any info on it?

can you guys help with ID, and approx price, as i may resell it.

thank you

it has made in korea on the back. and serial starts KC01 and the plastic is still on the back covers. it doesnt really look even played.

 

[krysh]

welcome dave,
no idea what the correct model is, but it is probably a copy of a guild m-75.
but help should be around soon.

 

[guitarslinger]

Looks like an M-75, but, the headstock is small like an M-77T. Did they make an M-77 with the humbuckers and no Digsby?

 

[matsickma]

Yep. It is a M77. They only came in Blue and Red. They have the smaller head and have a combination of gold and chrome hardware. They are about an 1/8 inch thinner than a M75. In my experiance the M75 adn M77 weighed in about the same.

M

 

[MojoTooth]

Those pups sound great, they are called GoldTones I believe. I had one of these guitars, but it was a made in Indonesia model with the DeArmotron pickups that sounded great too. Great guitars for the price, the flamed top on some of them is stunning too.

 

[tele4tone]

I had a silver one like that. M77. Nice guitars

Jeff

 

[matsickma]

I stand corrected. You are right. The last year of DeArmond they only offered Red and Blue. The introduction year the M77 was offered in a silver sparkle. I remember seeing it in Musicians Friend and later on ebay.

My mistake.

M

 

[Default]

As an aside, when I went to the Experience Music Project in Seattle, the "guitar fountain" sculpture had at least 7 DeArmonds in it. Most were the M75 variant, and all of them had the pickups missing :lol: Not the Indonesian one's without the Goldtones, though. Every other guitar had their pups in place. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[tele4tone]

I stand corrected. You are right. The last year of DeArmond they only offered Red and Blue. The introduction year the M77 was offered in a silver sparkle. I remember seeing it in Musicians Friend and later on ebay.

My mistake.

M

IIRC you helped me ID mine as a M77. Thx!!!

I loved mine and wished I had not of traded it for what I did.

Jeff