NGD - DV72 CL

[awagner]

Congrats on completing the set! That is one tough set to complete!

Thanks.

Well, there is still the DV82, but I guess if we are just talking DV7xs, the set is completed. But I don’t consider it complete until I get the DV82 or find out it doesn’t exist.

 

[awagner]

My DV72 is AD720116 and the date is March 19, 1994!

Mine is AD720104 and the date is March 17, 1994. Looks like March and April were busy months for DV7x production.

 

[Jammer54]

Love the fretboard inlays. Also the Grovers. Early ones too! Remind me to never yip about how much great guitars cost. As an blue collar guy, my wife would have go, if I bought/brought one of these babies home!

 

[awagner]

Glorious

Congrats on completing the set! That is one tough set to complete!

Except for the DC-130 (which I have no interest in) I may have every cloud inlay model as well.

D70, D70-12, DK70, D80, D80-12, D100, JF100, and JF100-12

Are there any others?

 

[davismanLV]

The DC-130 is the one with the maple top that sounds crap when you play acoustically, yeah??

 

[awagner]

The DC-130 is the one with the maple top that sounds crap when you play acoustically, yeah??

That’s right.

 

[GAD]

Except for the DC-130 (which I have no interest in) I may have every cloud inlay model as well.

D70, D70-12, DK70, D80, D80-12, D100, JF100, and JF100-12

Are there any others?

You're missing one.

 

[GardMan]

Interestingly, the neck block date is the same as my DV76 (April 15, 1994), which also has pink coral, although there are some minor differences

I just noticed this while looking at my spreadsheet as well... the only example of a pink coral DV-76 we have record of has a neck block date matching that of the one known neck block date from a batch of at least 3 coral DV-72s (15 April 1994).

It also suggests/indicates that this DV-76 was made roughly 2/3 of the way thru the production of DV-72s in 1994, BEFORE production of the DV-73s and DV-74s (completed in 1995 and 1995-96 respectively). The earliest neck block date I have recorded from DV-73s is 22 Nov 1994, on the 8th, 10th, and 12th examples of about 50 DV-73s completed in 1995. However, I believe awagner also has a DV-7X with DV-73 trim, but a DV-72 SN and neck block date of 29 Sept 1994 (I can't remember if the model number on the label was DV-72 or DV-73... Andrew?)

It also started me wondering... Are all of the approx 10 DV-76s made with coral trim and purfling, or might there perhaps be DV-76s with turquoise or malachite trim and purfling? Maybe we'll find out when vol 2 is published, or when Andrew posts another NGD!

 

[awagner]

https://www.gad.net/Blog/wp-content/uploads/3017/12/BrianSetzer-BoulevardBrokenDreams-45-Cover-1600.jpg

Electrics don't count.

Anyway, hard to tell from the picture, but that inlay shape looks slightly different.

 

[awagner]

The earliest neck block date I have recorded from DV-73s is 22 Nov 1994, on the 8th, 10th, and 12th examples of about 50 DV-73s completed in 1995. However, I believe awagner also has a DV-7X with DV-73 trim, but a DV-72 SN and neck block date of 29 Sept 1994 (I can't remember if the model number on the label was DV-72 or DV-73... Andrew?)

My DV73's serial # is AD720177. The neck block date is September 29, 1994. The label identifies it as a DV-73 NT. So I beleive mine is a very early DV-73.

 

[chazmo]

Except for the elusive DV82, I now own every DV7x model, plus the JV72. I feel like the dog that caught the car. Now what?

Group picture, awagner? Would love to see all the DV7xs as a group.

 

[awagner]

Group picture, awagner? Would love to see all the DV7xs as a group.

See posts #7 and 8.

 

[GardMan]

My DV73's serial # is AD720177. The neck block date is September 29, 1994. The label identifies it as a DV-73 NT. So I beleive mine is a very early DV-73.

I would agree with that conclusion...

 

[Boneman]

Very pretty guitar! Plus I don’t know if I’ve seen a photo shoot done in a kitchen, bravo!.

 

[awagner]

Very pretty guitar! Plus I don’t know if I’ve seen a photo shoot done in a kitchen, bravo!.

The bathroom was not available.