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Original price

  1969 : $109.50
  1971 : $119.50
  1972 : $122.50

Verified production year(s) : 1968-1971
others years possible, not verified.

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• Gery - 2006-03-12
  This guitar is not particularly well made, but it screams B-L-U-E-S !
  These are so cool, a lackluster player has instant presence. Especially in the awful avocado green. The sound is so off it is good. No Gibson smoothness here folks...just raw meat.
• old rocker - 2006-08-30
  wow -
  I got one of these as a graduation present in 1976... had a lot of fun with it , but boy was it hard to keep in tune... a few good whacks of the whammy bar would do it...
  I played it for 10 years, and lost track of it...
  I found it recently in my old home's attic.
  Dusted it off, and it still sounds pretty good!
  I didn't even remember what the model was- till I found your picture...
  I finally own a vintage guitar;)
• gollumguitar - 2006-11-19
  I have a rebel avocado, perfect instrument for riff & dirty blues & slide too!!
• ED - 2008-01-07
  I've owned 2 Rebels. My current one stays in tune better than the 1st due to the later mounting of the bridge which used 2 screws on each side instead of 1. With one screw the bridge swivels slightly and therefore "un-tuning" itself. I had, non-invasively, folded up a metal sheet to wedge between the center bridge piece and the side pieces. It tightened it up quite a bit. I didn't like the newer scroll PUs it had, though. Sold it, but I got a later one with the newer "2 screw" mounting and older silvertone diamond pickups already swapped. Sounds a bit better, but there's another issue.
  Seems that one technical oversite with the hollowbody Harmonys was using the top-mounted tremolo tailpiece. Not only did screwing it to the top of hollowbodies warp the top (it's great for the bobkat), but it also doesn't hold the screws securely under long-term string tension (I briefly had a rocket with the same issue). I was wondering if anyone out there has similar problems, and if so, found a way to secure the existing tailpiece or found other alternative fixes. I thought of placing a thicker, pre-drilled wood inside and mount it together, spreading the string tension over a larger surface area, but it seems it would still pull up somewhat. I would otherwise consider a tail-mounted bigsby or just a fixed trapeze instead.
  Any thoughts appreciated. thanks
  -Ed
• François (webmaster) - 2008-01-08
  I have many Harmony guitars, I can testify that many of them still work great with this original "W" vibrato, with no warping of the surrounding area. I suppose it depends of the original quality of the wood, and if the previous owners had the bad habit to unscrew/rescrew it, not to mention the way you use the "whammy bar"... But on the other hand, I also see this as a fragile design, and I have added a plywood plate (high quality 1/4 7 ply) inside my H420 bass for this reason.. But the best advice for vintage gear remains "if it works, don't fix it !" :-)
• ED - 2008-01-29
  Yes, previous owners' treatment can make a difference. Mine came to me with heavier gauge acoustic strings on it, which were probably responsible for the extra stress, warping the top upwards and cracking the screw-hole area.
• ED - 2008-02-21
  I just finished swapping the tailpiece with an older 50s/60s kay(?) one-piece trapeze to take the strain off the top mount. It plays wonderfully, perfect intonation, holds tune well. Especially nice is that the body resonates much better. I think this is a good solution for anyone who might be having the warping and cracking issues I had (of course if not broke, don't fix!!). Just no vibrato.
• Ed - 2008-02-26
  Francois, looks like mine is a '73. It has a code of "F 73 w?". I can send a picture if you care to update your data.
• François (webmaster) - 2008-02-27
  Ed, so yours should be the H682 later model (almost the same though..). I would love to receive pictures, please use the contact form if you don't already have my email address :-)