Harmony Bobkat H17

A quick unplanned wandering and twiddling on a unique Bobkat, to demonstrate its sounds to a buyer. (It's now sold). This is a mid 1960's H17, with two Dearmond/Rowe Industries Golden Tone 'gold foil' pickups. The pickups from this era measure around 8-13k ohms. This model, beyond the two pickup H15, had the W-tail vibrato tail piece. This is played through a vintage Ibanez Tube Screamer, Belkat Analog Delay, and Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb, into an early 1960's Silvertone 1472 amplifier, that has 12ax7's for preamps, and 2 x 6V6 tubes for the power stage.

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• harmony
• silvertone
• 6v6
• bobkat
• dearmond
• blues

[redstrat8]

i have the silvertone one.has a better bridge.pickups are straight .have the amp 1482 also

[ohgoodthinking99]

redstrat8, very nice. I have that Silvertone but without the vibrato tail piece, and yes, straight pickups as well. I've not seen a different bridge on any of the Bobkat range and brands (all made by Harmony). Perhaps yours had been changed? Very curious.

[dcbigsky]

1477-2 silvertone guitar I have ,,, exact same one

[dcbigsky]

I also have the sears silvertone Bobcat with vibrato tailpiece , straight pickups that are red ( not gold ) by same manufacture. has a couple real little nicks and a little scraped wherer I would stand it up ( didn't have a guitar stand ) . Got it when I was around 12 1964 - 1965. you can see pictures of it on sears silvertone guitar site that shows all silvertone guitars

[GreenFurnNW]

@vwbusssesareforever

That's good to hear..My pic guard assembly and switches aren't working. .they still make em replacement parts? cause I cant find anything...

[vwbusssesareforever]

@GreenFurnNW the one I found did not have the tremolo bar option on it, but looked alot like this one, but the one I found was in rough shape, but could easily be restored

[vwbusssesareforever]

@GreenFurnNW id say $100-$150 not working. But working, $300-$800 depending on the model, condition, and if it has a tremolo bar or not.

[GreenFurnNW]

@vwbusssesareforever

$300 without it working?

[vwbusssesareforever]

@GreenFurnNW some are worth $300, but the ones with the orange sunbirst color to them with the case and all $800 easy restored. The one I found has 4 knobs like this one, but doesnt have an option for a tremolo bar

[GreenFurnNW]

@vwbusssesareforever

I found a H17 in a old barn myself! mines it great condition but doesn't work..how much these things go for? ANYONE KNOW?

[vwbusssesareforever]

@vwbusssesareforever its not cracked or anything. I sent you a link to a picture of it. Let me know what you think