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Specifications: 12-string. Non-cutaway. Goliath size: Body width: 400 mm. Body length: 505 mm. Body depth: 95/120 mm. Fingerboard width: 51 mm. Scale length: 630 mm. Spruce top. Flame maple back & sides. 4-ply bound top. Single-bound back. Mahogany bolt-on neck with adjustable truss rod. Metal Levin truss rod cover. Single-bound rosewood fingerboard with centered pearl dot inlay. Rosewood bridge. Nickel plated strip tuners with large white rollers and white plastic buttons. Natural finish. Introduced: ca 1962 ca 1963: Tuners with metal rollers. Also available as Levin LTS 5. Earliest known example: 178824 (ca 1964) 216519 (ca 1964) ca 1964: Bass side fingerboard dot inlay. 268706 (ca 1965) 275810 (ca 1965) ca 1966: Chrome plated tuners with metal buttons. ca 1970: Set neck. Pin bridge with six pins. Renamed GG-5. ca 1970: Belly pin bridge with six pins and six individual height adjustable plastic bridge saddles. ca 1971: 14-fret neck. Two-point pin bridge with 12 pins and a straight bone saddle. 1554 (ca 1971) 1563 (ca 1971) ca 1972: Belly pin bridge with 12 pins and a straight bone saddle. no number (ca 1972) Latest known example: 55085 (ca 1972)