What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:34 am
What more than the pickguard signature is different on the Tom Petty version of 660/12 compared to a normal 660/12 ?
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Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:13 am
As far as I know the signature is the only difference.
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:53 am
And the price. 
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:07 am
Apparently the neck shape is different too?
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:44 am
ken_j wrote:As far as I know the signature is the only difference.
And the availability.kenf wrote:And the price.
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:58 am
yeah---don't forget the all-important piece of paper. 
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:43 pm
...and don't forget that the 660/12 TP is equipped with the hotter, 12K Toasters, which in my opinion, is significant. These hotter Toasters provide a louder and punchier bass response without sacrificing the jangly treble tones. I disagree with the folks that say the hotter Toasters only belong on a 6-string RIC.
I've owned both 660's and really prefer the neck on the TP. It has a slim/taper feel to the neck, kinda like the 60's slim/taper neck on a Gibson ES-335. Of course, there are those who like a clubbier neck.
Also, most of the TP's I've seen possess a good amount of bird's-eye maple on the body, which looks quite elegant. The regular production 660/12's seem to have more of a flamed-maple body, and not too much bird's-eye. But again, to each, his own.
The gold guards and gold TRC on a TP is a true Vintage gold....not greenish-gold like the newer 660/12 regular production models.
I've owned both 660's and really prefer the neck on the TP. It has a slim/taper feel to the neck, kinda like the 60's slim/taper neck on a Gibson ES-335. Of course, there are those who like a clubbier neck.
Also, most of the TP's I've seen possess a good amount of bird's-eye maple on the body, which looks quite elegant. The regular production 660/12's seem to have more of a flamed-maple body, and not too much bird's-eye. But again, to each, his own.
The gold guards and gold TRC on a TP is a true Vintage gold....not greenish-gold like the newer 660/12 regular production models.
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:20 pm
Yep, all the differences here have been noted.
I love the 660/12TP. I've never gotten to play a standard production 660/12, but the TP I owned was pretty cool. Would love to have another go at one (but if I were to, it'd have to be FG!), maybe in the future.
I love the 660/12TP. I've never gotten to play a standard production 660/12, but the TP I owned was pretty cool. Would love to have another go at one (but if I were to, it'd have to be FG!), maybe in the future.
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:40 pm
Gosh, after reading this thread, now I have an inferiority complex because I only have a "regular" 660-12 model
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:47 pm
Isn't yours Jetglo, though?8mileshigher wrote:Gosh, after reading this thread, now I have an inferiority complex because I only have a "regular" 660-12 model
Re: What is the difference between 660/12TP and 660/12 ?
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:54 pm
JakeK wrote:
Isn't yours Jetglo, though?
Yes, it is Jetglo and quite striking with the checker board binding. And to top it off, I got a checkerboard guitar strap to accent it... Steve and Ross were both trying it out at SCARF...