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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | ...to have a guitar right here in the office so I could work on a few tunes once and a while. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Playing guitar and arranging songs is part of my job. I usually have at least one Ovation in my office, and I will be working on tunes this afternoon in preparation for band rehearsal ... which is also part of my job.
It reminds me of a day in Texas when I was calling on one of my parishioners. He owned a business called Bomber Bait and was headed out of his office with several well equipped fishing rods and a large carton of lures. I said that I wished I had a job that allowed me to take off in the middle of the day and fish. His reply was, "Paul, this IS my job."
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Location: Upper Left USA | Bill,
It's my lunchtime. I have the OFC on my PC, an Applause AA12 in my file cabinet, a 12 string on my door step at home and an inbox full of other peoples problems to pass to me.
Think I'm going to have a productive afternoon? |
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Location: NJ | We all have our bears to cross. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Cliff,
Do you cross your bears and dot your eyes? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | I'm with you, MWoody. I have a full slate of clinical conundrums to sort out by 5:00 PM. I carry my lunch every day, just so I can keep pace. I write so much it interferes with my playing stamina with my O's. Something is going to give, real soon. I've been to hand therapy once already.
This puritan work ethic fiasco is a real ballbuster. I suppose it supports my Lab & Newfie in the manner to which they have become accustomed...... |
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Location: NJ | Actually, I dot my bears and cross my eyes. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | What ever became of Gladly, "the cross-eyed bear." |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | I think he is on the other side of mountain....
A friend of mine offered to sing a special in church one day. He was told, we'd like you to sing, "On a hill.." far away! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | OK, everyone but Bill back to work!
Bill, get your pictures to work!
I haven't had a black Bear in my yard yet. Just deer, racoon, possum, coyote and hummingbirds.
Give Morris my regards! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I always used to have lots of guitars in my office....
Wood Man, won't be seeing Old Mo for another 6 weeks but when I do I'll pass on your regards.
I just picked up std bd #148 yesterday. It needs a bit of set up but is overall in pretty good shape. It's really got the soouuuund.. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Bill,
Do you use the "eeny-meeny-miny-mo" or the "one-potato, two-potato" method? :rolleyes: |
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Location: So. Cal. | Almost ALL my guitars are in the office. Where else would you put them? The only reason to work is to make enough money to buy the next Ovation. Am I the only one here that's figured that out? |
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Location: Lombard, IL | I've actually just brought my older guitar to work with me tonight. I'm lucky in that I have a job working alone in an office in DT Chicago, 12-8am, doing support for a global trading network. As long as the phone isn't ringing, I get to do pretty much nada. And I have nights/mornings where the phone never rings... |
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Location: SoCal | I've been to playadamas' office and he speaks the truth when he says that almost all of his guitars are there. It's truly magnificent!
And with the amount of guitars in his office, even if that is "almost all" of them, he probably still has 5-10 more at home.
My office (and my bank balance) are much smaller, but I still have guitars scattered around.
And while I'm in CT this week, my wife is getting new flooring put in upstairs. In this great world of give and take, that translates into one or two new guitars! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | VeeKaChu - If you need a personal assistant I make great coffee and I can do the rythym AND Lead to "Wish You Were Here"!
Paul - When I was in my early 20's I gaged $20 increments in cases of beer or high octane fill-ups. That became packages of Pampers Kimbies! Now I am starting to see equivilents of what I could get for guitar accessories!
I now relate a short vacation to the price of a new LX. :( |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I'm starting to compare lot's of things to the cost of a new O, as in the trip to the factory, but the trip won out this time. |
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Location: NJ | It's funny, now that you mention it . . . a lot of times I'll look at the cost of something and relate it to number of gigs . . . . "I can just play four gigs and buy that" . . . if it's coming from the proceeds of what you enjoy doing in the first place, it makes it a little less painful. |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | lol! The floor leveler and tile I used in my bathroom remodel was that 1537 I've always wanted, the faucets/sink/tub surround and toilet would have got me that digital recorder.
I refinanced my home last March, and had a nest-egg of about $20,000.00. I dedicated the money to upgrades BADLY needed. A new roof/new furnace/new appliances/new paint/ remodel bathroom/new carpeting/dental work for my daughter, and one year later,that nest egg is but a distant memory. Dreamed of countless Ebay beauties, Pawnshop treasures, music store temptations and OFC board fantasies...and with money in the bank to pull the trigger(sorta)! Talk about discipline :eek: But at the end of the day (O.K....year) all is good. My home is leakproof and warm, my daughter can smile again, my wife is estatic :D :p ;) :cool: :eek: , and I still ended up with a beautiful 81 Pacemaker via Trboy...the deepbowl USA Ovation (w/electronics ta-boot) I've been looking for soooo long.
God is good!
As far as having guitars at work. I bought two acoustic Johnson guitars (hiss/boo I know, but I was fortunate to get the O.K. on these cheaper guitars)with my school budget, and I bought a Reynolds electric, with an old beat up Crate15 amp from a local pawnshop (with my own money), and some bamboo flutes at a flea market, so that my students can have guitars/music available to them.
As a treat, I will "feature" a particular Ovation for a week or so, so the kids can get a feel for a quality instrument as well. I hold my breath
when I hand them my babies, but so far so good. I'm always amazed at the wide-eyed responses they give to my O's, and wonder why it doesn't carry over once they leave here. I guess the power of conformity is alive and well in the music world as with the rest of society(if it aint a Taylor or Matrin... it aint nothin). If they would only follow their instincts, not what's trendy.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Norsey
God provides and still test us by allowing a little heathen lustfulness for worldly aquisitions to pass by. Beware the distractions of this board! And yet, I find this gathering has a calming and theraputic part of my life.
As sometimes a little GAS aquisition does slip through - my thanks to Willard for the Pacemaker 12 I didn't see coming until it hit me! All tuned up and playing sweet. The action is great - I just have to educate my fingers to accomodate more strings.
I applaud your sharing instruments with your class! Talk to some Dealers in your area and see if they will host a "featured" instrument once in a while!
I feel that as long as I am sharing my gifts and encouraging others God will provide - already have an Elite LX and a good'ol 12 string now!
I'll just have to dream about the Longneck Baritone 12 and an office full of guitars.
Did I mention that my garage is now clean! |
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Location: Lombard, IL | Originally posted by MWoody:
VeeKaChu - If you need a personal assistant I make great coffee and I can do the rythym AND Lead to "Wish You Were Here"!
Heh, thanks, I'd love an assistant- however, my managers think you'd have to work for free. You'd be compensated, however, by the joy of teaching me all you know.
After my first night on the job with the Yammy, my fingers are killing me. Can anyone here tell me where's a good place to get a lefty nut for this beast? The action is high and the strings are heavy (by design, as I'm going to beat my right hand into submission with this "practice" git) but because it's LH on an RH nut the low E is riding even higher than it should. I have a hell of a time getting any decent tone at all, just a lot of muffled buzz...
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Location: Upper Left USA | Tell you Managers I'm not cheap but I can be had!
Try stewmac.com for replacement parts. |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Amen Woody.
Thanks, and Congrats on your Pacemaker. I just hope the rest of your O's don't develop a green hue as mine have, as they sit gathering dust the next few weeks while your 12 gets all the attention!
Norse(just got back from Wal-Mart, dropped some pics off to be put on CD, so I can download an updated gallery of Norseman's O's...stay tuned)man1 |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Mike,
Glad to hear the 12 made it OK. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. The action is so nice on that guitar it shouldn't take you too long to get used to it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | And I thought the only good things that came from Wisconson were cheese and more cheese. I now know there is a lot more than that! :D
I will soon be able to open spinach cans with my left hand as well. It is a beautiful guitar. I think deep down my wife might even like it. |
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by VeeKaChu:
After my first night on the job with the Yammy, my fingers are killing me. Can anyone here tell me where's a good place to get a lefty nut for this beast?
I'm sure as hell not gunna give ya' MY left nut for a guitar that makes your fingers hurt! :)
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Location: Central Oregon | Btw, I'm really enjoying reading about great playing Pacemakers, especially 12 string Pacemakers. Mine should be here next Wednesday!
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by cliff:
It's funny, now that you mention it . . . a lot of times I'll look at the cost of something and relate it to number of gigs . . . . "I can just play four gigs and buy that" . . . if it's coming from the proceeds of what you enjoy doing in the first place, it makes it a little less painful.
That makes sense. If I keep the empty root beer cans to trade in (Oregon refund 5 cents!), after I play at 2-3 parties I could get a new pick!
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Location: Lombard, IL | Originally posted by MWoody:
Try stewmac.com for replacement parts. That *is* a sweet site, thanks. They even have nuts right on the front page. Blank ones. And about a eleventy-hundred dollars worth of tools to properly fashion what I need... ;)
Nils- I don't mind that it hurts some- after all, as I've stated I'm intentionally playing this l'il folky with the higher action and heavier strings so that when I get home to my O it seems even more of a joy (this is my fourth attempt to become proficient with the git in 45 years, though the most earnest, and I *will* get it this time).
But I do think that with the RH nut it *is* unecessarily high and not ideal within the guitar's intrinsic context. But, as Procul Harum sang, I will soldier on... |
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Location: Central Oregon | Only a bad joke, never mind.....
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Location: Lombard, IL | NP Nils, just making small-talk! ;)
Back on topic, I just came back to my desk after playing some scales out by the elevators.
OMG, if you can bring a guitar to work, AND you work in an empty 17 floor building with an open brick atrium, ooh, chills!
Too bad I'm so self-conscious though- heard the elevator bell begin to ding (night security doing rounds) and I scurried back into my office... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Vee,
Two suggestions:
1) Use open chords in E such as Asus 002200, Bsus 024400, C#m 046600, E 079900, Fm 044200, G#m 066400 et al. This will allow you to "open up" the guitar's sound - especially in an open "auditorium" like what you have.
2) Next time you anticipate the security check coming through - be prepared. Set up by the elevator with your case open and a sign that reads "Will Play for Increased Security"! You'll make friends with the only armed personnel in the building and it may be a high spot on their routine!
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