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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Yesterday I had the post-surgery 'concrete' cast and staples removed, and issued an adjustable 'boot'. Man what a difference! I now can adjust the 'boot' whenever the swelling increases and relieve some pressure.
My sincere thanx for all the prayers, well wishes and inquiries. What a crowd...
Also my thanx to Ace Hardware, Craftsman Tools, Office Depot and Ginsu Cutlery.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Looks like good carpentry work, except your hardware cost way more than it would in the hardware store. I think I have more hardware in my arm, but I don't have an xray. Hope everything heals as good as it looks, iffy, and that you're back to doing whatever old farts like you do. |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Here's to good healing! Make sure you do the PT. It really helps.
I had ACL reconstruction about 2 years ago, so I have a couple of screws in the knee area, and a nice scar down the front of the knee where the harvested a third of my patella to use as the new ACL (supposed to be stronger than the original). I just remember getting the staples removed. My doctor took a week vacation around the time I was supposed to have them removed, so they stayed an extra week (not sure why someone else there couldn't do it). This allowed some tissue growth around the staples. Needles to say, when the first one "stuck" a little on removal, it was cold-sweat time. Not fun at all. |
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Location: Indiana | I have an arm like that...
Best of luck iffy. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Dude!
Are those the Fender sized or Gibson sized pickguard screws from Stewmac?
For what they charged you sould have gotten an on-board tuner! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | looks as if they left an extra screw in there. Is that for future use?? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by MWoody:
For what they charged you sould have gotten an on-board tuner! I think they thought that being a barometer was all I could handle.
Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Is that for future use?? I believe that was the first one installed to hold 'things' together for the 'truss rod' installation. :D |
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| You're gonna have fun at airports - "Assume the position, sir."
Glad you're on the mend, Johnny. I expect to see you do a jig come January. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Single action?
Tell people you have a "Kaman bar" installed and that you are waiting on the "LX" knee joint. |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by g8r:
You're gonna have fun at airports - "Assume the position, sir."
I thought so too but oddly enough, the 5 inch plate in my arm has never set off the airport detector.
I was also disappointed to find I couldn't hang a refrigerator magnet on it. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by MWoody:
Dude!
Are those the Fender sized or Gibson sized pickguard screws from Stewmac?
For what they charged you sould have gotten an on-board tuner! Just don't ask where the dummy plug goes!! :eek: |
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Location: south east Michigan | Geez Iffy... Looks like you're screwed on this one. :D ;)
Get better soon. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | It might be the next T-shirt!
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Phil Wong:
Just don't ask where the dummy plug goes!! :eek: Hey, I was born with one. No big deal. But it's staying right where it is! ;) |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Iffy, I'm disappointed you didn't go with carbon fibre. Hope it's healing well, My ACL repair ached for years afterwards, even though it didn't ache beforehand (although my knee did have a nasty habit of popping out). |
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Location: Vernon CT | Hey Iffy, It almost looks like a bridge and bridge pins!! ;) |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
I believe that was the first one installed to hold 'things' together for the 'truss rod' installation. :D Aw geez Iffy! I just made a truss rod crack in the other "Iffy Medical Procedures" post (How's that for a double entendre?), then I see you beat me to it. Great minds think alike I guess. :p
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Location: SoCal | I like the Ovation logo they left on the bone..... |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
looks as if they left an extra screw in there. Is that for future use?? Jim,
Thats what I thought. Maybe something he might use to trade you for one of your guitars |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Lock-Tite and Liquid Steel....only way to go!
Get better soon...  |
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Location: Cicero, NY | We have the technology.
We can rebuild him.
He will be able to walk up and down hills again.
(Get better, iffy. Don't forget, we'll be seeing you in Feb! Let me know what screwdrivers, I mean GUITARS I can bring!) |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Weaser P:
He will be able to walk up and down hills again.
He obviously wasn't very good at that before. (Sorry Iffy) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
He obviously wasn't very good at that before. (Sorry Iffy) Ouch!!! 
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Location: South of most, North of few | Johnny, you going to unveil the news of your NEWEST hardware?? (of the graphite variety) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
NEWEST hardware Geeez! I don't even have it yet  ... but SINCE you insist  :
I blame it all on Keith (War Eagle). He kept teasing me with his 1680 by plugging in and showing off. :D Besides, I love walnut!
Maybe Richard will cut me some CF slack now... riiight... :p |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | You dog you! Congratulations! That should help the healing process a little bit! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Congrats with the new guitar Iffy , but...when did all the above happen ?..
I know I`ve been absent for awhile , but really , can n`t leave ya alone for a minute..
GET WELL SOON :)
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | My second favorite Adamas! You now have my permission to include me in your will Iffy. 
Someday, we have to get together and A-B that thing with my Ute. Then of course, we have to clone each of them so we can both go home happy.  |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Nice catch Iffy. I had a go of Keith's at the cabin and it's a beaut. Is that a 1 3/4" nut on that one?
How's the ankle going? Can you put weight on it yet? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Vic ,
The ankle 'dis-alignment' happened at the Smokey's Jam.
I pulled the trigger on the 1680 yesterday AM (Thanx fugot!) . TJ was getting an itchy finger even though he's got three adoptees on the way. :rolleyes:
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Patch,
There were, I think, three UTEs at the jam. To my ears only one sounded comparable to the 1680. 
When Keith pulled out his 1680 with all that walnut and sweet sounds, I was gullet hooked!
As to A-B-etc., just get your yankee arse down here for some winter time sunshine at one of the jams! 
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Richard,
Yepper 1 3/4" nut.
The ankle is still tender and prone to swelling. But with the 'boot' I can make adjustments. I have put most of my weight on it, but no steps/walking for another two weeks. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Patch,
There were, I think, three UTEs at the jam. To my ears only one sounded comparable to the 1680. Thanks Iffy...thanks a lot! If they sound better than my UTE, you may have just planted a Floridian "Moth's In The Wallet" Curse on me. (Scientific name Touristae gohomeabrokus) I may well be doomed to be trolling the internet some day, spot one of these guitars, and you know what happens then?
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Location: South of most, North of few | Patch, I have owned two UTE's, with the second one sounding better than the first, but neither sounded near as good as the 1680. The 1680 has a different top (cross weave I believe, like the 2080) and I think it has a suspension ring to the bowl which the UTE doesn't have. Definitely a different sounding animal. It took all the restraint I had not to pick this one up. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I played Keith's at the jam. Awesome sounding guitar and easy to play. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Patch, I have owned two UTE's, with the second one sounding better than the first, but neither sounded near as good as the 1680. You too Jim?! I'm being tag-teamed. The only monkey missing from my back is Dweezil! (He'll drop from the jungle canopy any time now I'm sure.)
This is the OFC version of a rip tide isn't it? The same rules apply:
1) Don't try to swim against it.
2) Just relax and tread water.
3) Lean back and try not to despair as the current carries your soggy, sorry butt relentlessly out to sea.
4) Maybe you'll find a desert island (preferably sans Gilligan et al.) with no internet connection acting like some kind of malicious, monetary hoover converting money you don't have into guitars (admittedly very nice ones) you don't need.
5) If only there was a buxom, scantily-clad super-model-wannabe life-guard (females only need apply) jogging down the beach in an Oh-So-TV-Like fashion who could drag me safely to shore and administer mouth-to-mouth. (Why else would I be holding my breath?) And save me from this GASeous torture.
What the heck right? If I'm pipe-dreaming for an affordable 1680, I might as well let the fantasy (and the allegory) run amuck.
I swear; Iffy, Trader Jim, and Dweezil are gonna be the end of me. SWMBO is gonna carve it on my tombstone:
The doofus bought one too many, and I couldn't take it anymore!
SIGH! Time to gear up and go stalking. This one could take a while. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
I think it has a suspension ring to the bowl Jim, you're correct. I believe it's that discreet but elegant gold around the top. I definitely need to take some better pics when it gets here. These pics are way too light.
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Location: East Tennessee | Jim,
The next time you're headed north, stop by iffys, (it's on the way), grab the thing and bring it here. We could go to that snobby guitar guy and tick him off. :D |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Good Idea Mike. Here's a better pic of the one that started all that lust brewing in Iffy's head. You can almost see him thinking, "how can I sneak this into one of my cases?"
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Actually he was planning to do that on Sunday morning, but couldn't carry any guitars while on crutches. Is it just that photo or does the head have a walnut burl? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
Is it just that photo or does the head have a walnut burl? I think it's just the pic. The first pic is the one I'm receiving and the other from the Adamas site.
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