365 Days of Guitar Day 10 -- CHECKING OUT A VINTAGE HARMONY BOBKAT H15!
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2020
- Hey all,
Today I'm taking a look at one of my more recent finds, a very nice example of a 1967 Harmony Bobkat H15!
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A bit of trivia, these guitars were known as the Silhouette model from 1963 until 1968 when everything below the H19 became known as the Bobkat and only the H19 was called the Silhouette. I have a 1963 H17 which I always refer to as a Silhouette....because that's a classier name than BobKat.
I have my great grandmother's Harmony "Stella" Accoustic guitar with the fender stratocaster shaped headstock. I'm 62 years old, and she had this guitar when I was a child ( she passed away in 1991 at 90 years old).
Do you have any idea when this style of Harmony was manufactured? I'm just curious to know some history on the guitar.
Thank you.
Gary T
So neat! I just ordered the same guitar and can't wait to plug it in. The tone on the middle pickup is my favorite, i'm wondering how it would sound with a clean overdrive. Thanks for the vid!
Awesome. Is yours the two pickup H15 as well? These pickups are kind of noisy, but they handle gain in a very interesting way if you can get past that. I don't tend to use a lot of preamp gain with these Harmony guitars, but an edge of breakup type tone is really a nice match. I think you'll enjoy it.
Will Van Hansolo totally rad. mine is the 2 pickup as well. I really like the clean tone with the golden foils as well. I’m sure I’m going to like it a ton
Shes la wheez there is no middle pickup
Probably the same neck thickness as my Harmony Rebel H82 (sort of a Rickenbacker style hollow body). It's an unusual feel because that crazy thickness combined with the extra short scale, but damn it's solid. I don't think it could bend or warp if it tried.
Very likely. It's a beefy neck profile.
Hey, whats the radius on this bad boy?
I believe it's a 12" radius. Cheers!
I have 3 with solid rosewood finger boards.
Sell me one
If it's not 25 & 1/2 scale,I have a hard time playing.I can't play Les Pauls because of this.I am stuck forever as a Strat or Tele player.I love these older guitars anyway(I still collect any decent old stuff I can find).
Interesting! I traditionally like a 25.5" or a 24 3/4" scale, but I enjoy jamming on these old Harmony guitars, particularly for playing slide.
Can you play larger scale lengths, though? I've heard of Kay Vanguards being 25.75", but I don't know if that's true across every Vanguard model.