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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. |
Single-bound rosewood fingerboard with bass side pearl dot inlay. |
Rosewood bridge. |
Nickel plated strip tuners with white plastic buttons. |
Sunburst finish. |
Ten year warranty. |
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Marketed by U.K. distributors as Goliath Model 1795 and |
Goliath Electric Model 1890 (w/DeArmond pickup and controls). |
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Introduced: Circa 1963 |
as a replacement for LM 26. |
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Circa 1964: |
Nickel plated individual Van Gent tuners with metal buttons. |
Also available as Goya N-26. |
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Earliest known example: 450366 (1965) |
450373 (1965) - (changed tuners) |
450381 (1965) - (refinished natural) |
454752 (1965) |
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Circa 1965: |
Belly bridge with individual height adjustable plastic bridge saddles. |
(Old style bridge still used in early 1967). |
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459813 (1966) |
474383 (1966) - (refinished body) |
478052 (1967) |
484064 (1967) |
488263 (1968) |
488307 (1968) |
494170 (1969) |
497060 (1969) |
Latest known example: 504201 (1970) |
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Circa 1970: |
Replaced by Model 163. |
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