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Custom Harvester Surf Goldthwait

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Been getting round to posting this. Earlier this year I received my custom build from Harvester guitars in Melbourne.
An amazing quirky take on the classic 60s fender offset. Built for surf she's ready for pipeline.
Hand wound JM style pups from Lance amplification in Aussie . These things chime like fender but have a gretschy bite. The mastery hardware is of course superb and the affixed maple neck gives twang and sustain. 9.5" radius makes for comfy playing and the medium tall frets
Are a little.more generous than vintage fender frets.
Bonus is it was played by Bill Frissel when he toured here and visited the harvester shop. He quite enjoyed it :)
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Nice! Looks like a mature Di Pinto. :thumbup:
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Love the headstock. It looks like the bit on the shotgun that you hold. Really like the curves too. Well done!
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I don't know how to explain it properly.... It's got quirky features that take it in the direction of those really weird 60s offset guitars... But other features that drag it back and make it look really contemporary. It's kind of the best of both era's. Like both era's are contributing to the look, but neither of them are taking anything away from each other... Rather they're complimenting each other!
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That's killer, love it!
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jeremyb wrote:That's killer, love it!
Thanks yeh it rocks a lot of boxes
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I can confirm that this guitar melts all the faces.

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Lol this is such a great design.

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Re: Custom Harvester Surf Goldthwait

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This is weird - personally I don't really like anything about it, but still, that looks awesome :D

Either way looks to be high quality, congrats!

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She's kwality Aaaallll right

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For some reason i'm feeling a Maton quality to the headstock. Sat night, too drunk to figure out why. That is a goddamn mother fucker of a guitar. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I have it? Please?
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kdawg2a wrote:For some reason i'm feeling a Maton quality to the headstock. Sat night, too drunk to figure out why. That is a goddamn mother fucker of a guitar. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I have it? Please?
You can have a play on it!
I believe the headstock is a 'hatchet' shape modelled off a 'kay' brand bass

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Here are a couple of quick garageband demos of the golthwait

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