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I'm going to list an old 12 string Epiphone for sale, but for the life of me I can't identify which Epiphone it is. I'm guessing it's probably something from the late 60's to early 70's but I don't believe it's a Texan. Lower end guitar that I put some electronics into and had reset. Black head stock, three rosette's around the sound hole. There is no tag on the guitar and I can't find a serial number anywhere. Here's a couple of pics I took. Does anybody know what model this is?

 

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In looking at the info I can find on the 6834, I notice some slight variances of the one I've got versus what I can find on the internet. First, on the tuners they show on the 6834, they all show them as having the plastic tuning knobs, while the one I have are all chrome tuners

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I know the tuners have not been changed

 

The second difference is they show them as having the 3 piece bolt on neck with a plate on the back of the guitar

 

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while mine has no such plate

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the tuners are relatively minor, but an access plate to the neck is fairly significant

 

any idea why there might be such variance?

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Wow! What a sweet guitar! I've got 2 Texan's (used to have 3) and the older's ones sound great, the tops have a tendency to bow up and the bridge's can crap-out on them but still nice guitar's! Why are you getting rid of it?

 

Too many guitars! I just bought a Jumbo Guild 12 string and that's why I'm selling it. It's in great condition and I had a Fishman SGT professionally installed so it can be used with an amplifier. I love the guitar but got a ridiculous price on the Guild and couldn't pass it up. If you're interested in it (or know anybody who is), drop me an email enigmatroll@yahoo.com. It's a sweet guitar.

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Here's a > > 1974 Catalog < < Click on the page with the 165, et.al. The 'fixed' neck was bolted and glued in place. Reportedly, the nuts/bolt heads are visible through the sound hole. The bolts go through the neck block. The cheaper versions with 'adjusable' neck had four #12 wood screws coming in from the back, under the triangular shaped plate. The 6XXX model number nomenclature was very short lived, less than a year. The model number nomemclature resurrected the FT prefix numbers. There are a few duplications of FT numbers used from the 60's and before in these 70's, Norlin offerings. This is more likely a FT365, but 6XXX numbering is not out of the question.

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