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Specifications: |
Non-cutaway. |
Goliath size: |
Body width: 400 mm. |
Body length: 505 mm. |
Body depth: 95/120 mm. |
Fingerboard width: 43 mm. |
Scale length: 630 mm. |
Spruce top with X-bracing. |
Flame maple back & sides. |
4-ply bound top. |
Single-bound back. |
Mahogany bolt-on neck |
with adjustable truss rod. |
Unound headstock with mother-of-pearl inlay. |
Single-bound rosewood fingerboard with bass side pearloid dot inlay. |
Rosewood bridge with individual height adjustable plastic saddles. |
Nickel plated individual Van Gent tuners with metal buttons. |
Sunburst finish. |
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Introduced: Circa 1969 |
as a replacement for N-26. |
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Circa 1969: |
No headstock inlay. |
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Earliest known example: 379084 (Circa 1969) |
4126087 (1969) |
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Circa 1970: |
Renamed GG-163. |
Also available as Levin Model 163. |
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1054 (Circa 1971) |
1113 (Circa 1971) |
1457 (Circa 1971) |
53921 (Circa 1972) |
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Circa 1972: |
Bass side fingerboard pearloid block inlay. |
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54157 (Circa 1972) |
54488 (Circa 1972) |
55305 (Circa 1972) - (black top!) |
Latest known example: 55487 (Circa 1972) |
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