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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | OK ... With all the talk we've had about GAS and the size of our ...ummm...collections, and what would be the one guitar we would keep, I thought it fitting to ask this one:
What would it take to make your collection complete, and make you satisfied? Our wives may be interested in knowing the answer to this one. |
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Location: NJ | it would take a pine box and a bunch of happy people. |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | I could be happy with the 2080 if I had to. I only had my Korean Fender Acoustic/Electric for a couple of decades and was happy with that.
If I decide to retire in a motorhome (we lived in one for a year and loved it), it will probably be something like the 2080, but I would let the 1537 go as it is under played and requires a bit of upkeep that the Adamas don't.
For that matter, I was happy as a clam in sauce with the W597. Only reason I bought the 2080 is everyone thought it was better, and I have never bought a guitar for over $1K before.
I would likely just sell all my PA equipment, keep my Barbetta keyboard amp, a couple of mic, and my wifes Roland XP50. Maybe the Tascam 2488.
That would give me a total combo set up with 12 channels (or more if I needed it) that would fill a small venue and all fit behind the seat of my Toyota Xcab pickup. Life would be much less complicated. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by alpep:
it would take a pine box and a bunch of happy people. Don't forget the bagpipes |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I don't have a big collection, but the next one that I would like to get is the Millenium... just something about that one... |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by jpcannon:
Originally posted by alpep:
it would take a pine box and a bunch of happy people. Don't forget the bagpipes |
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Location: ranson,wva | the one i would keep out of all my guiatrs would have to be my 1114-4 folklore. to compleat my collection....adamasI&II,slothead#47,1537..jason |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | No, definately bagpipes.
After I've suffered, it's everyone elses turn... |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | The ones I would still like to have to complete my desired collection would be, in order ...
an Adamas I (I might be happy if I could just play one)
Elite or Adamas Bass (Keller's blue one (preferrably)
and a 87 Collector's |
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Location: Tennessee | it would take a pine box and a bunch of happy people As long as those two things are not directly related ...
For me, a Brazilian Rosewood Roy Rogers. Of course, should I get that, then there will be another one. Yossarian rules. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | For me:
- an Old Style Folklore (which wish will soon be satisfied with the Josh White Reissue)
- #47 (that I am also waiting for)
- 1681-7 with wide neck, acoustic only.
That's it? Yes, for now.
But I know, there will be these voices again... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | A completely authentic 1952 Fender Broadcaster.
If that wasn't possible, then a #47RI with state of the art electronics. |
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Location: PDX | tdeej's 1547
Lost Art Vintage Limited Ovation
FD-14
Hamer Improv
Martin 00-25K
With those i would have out (the rest would be sold off):
two 1547's
'97 Collectors
Lost Art Vintage Limited Ovation
FD-14
Hamer Improv
Martin 00-25K
That would do it. Although i certainly would like to try out the other flavors. But i doubt they would add much, and i'd end up selling them off.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I am always satisfied with what I have. Until something else comes along that I am fortunate enough to be able to obtain. I have sold off guitars that I swore I never would. And I have obtained guitars that I never thought would be possible. Joe said it best - "Life's been good to me so far ..."
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I have always wanted one each of the Bluebirds (6 and 12) and a GP to replace the ones that have come and gone. But I think my next Acoustic will be a custom 2080 I have been thinking about for some time. |
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Location: SoCal | OFC guitar...... |
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Location: Orange County, California | +1
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I know myself well enough to say that I may never be satisfied. The OFC guitar is right up there, but I know that there may always be something better right around the corner. I trust Ovation to make sure I don't get bored. I may also get to the point that some of you have passed, where I can say I've had that special guitar, now it's someone else's turn. I have to have something to do when I retire and it doesn't look like golf is going to do it for me. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Mitzdawg:
Originally posted by alpep:
no bagpipes for me just this tune " Witaj Krolowo Nieba" Isn't that the name of the Hungarian Song that goes:
"stay dead, you unholy vampire"?
it is a traditional Polish song sung at the cemetary at the burial. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I would have to say I would love to have a textured top Adamas. |
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Location: GA USA | I would too. GGG, you could've played a bunch of suweet Adami at the gathering. We missed you TN boys. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Is there actually an OFC guitar/ or is someone just making that up? Or ... is the OFC guitar actually a 1537? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I suppose since I try to keep less than 6 guitars at a time, and get rid of those I don't play in a six month period I'm limited to keeping guitars I want to play forever. So I'm very happy with my 1976 CA 1624 and my 2003 MEWP. The CA has the most awesome aged fet preamp sound and the MEWP is a great player.
The one thing missing, acoustically, would be an acoustic resonator like CWK2's. (Which I know I'll never have, but man that was great. I suppose I could have the factory make one, but I'd be spending money I don't have at the moment.)
Maybe a baritone would be nice too.
Electricly, I've found my humbucker guitar, which is my electric papoose. That baby is like picasso, either you love him or hate him. Weird, but no one is in the middle of the road on that little guy.
I'm still searching for my single coil. I'm hoping my current parts-o-caster project will fill my need. I'm putting it together this weekend and will have it set-up next week. I'll let you know how it goes.
This was a nice thing to think about.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by bvince:
Is there actually an OFC guitar/ or is someone just making that up? I think the OFC Guitar, like String Tubes and Llamas is just something here to make al freak out. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | an4340, your list is very much like what I envision as well.. A small but thoroughly rounded collection...
Over time I'd like to accumulate:
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[*]a 6-string acoustic/electric - got it!
[*]a hollowbody electric - got it!
[*]a resonator
[*]a solidbody electric
[*]a nylon-string
[*]a 12-string acoustic/electric (like tdeej's amazing W598!)
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Location: 6 String Ranch | A 34-39 bone.
one of the 92 D-45s
but these are just investments that you can play. The thing my collection really needs is more exercise time from me.
Actually, the real answer is that no collection is ever complete. |
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Location: boulder | page P-1 by john page, cp thornton professional acoustic,
this is like picking which child to keep... |
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| I saw a photo of the factory tour from last year?? year before?? anyway must-a been 70 or more Ovations of every style and color.
That would do it for me. Well that and a nice Vintage Rickenbacker electric 12 string in almost any flavor. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Originally posted by bvince:
Is there actually an OFC guitar/ or is someone just making that up? I think the OFC Guitar, like String Tubes and Llamas is just something here to make al freak out. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by alpep:
This guitar will happen but it has been made more difficult by some circumstances not known by most of the membership. If need be you can call me and I will elaborate. Did you mean to say, " . . . it has been made more difficult by circumstances of some of the most known membership." ?? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by alpep:
it is a traditional Polish song sung at the cemetary at the burial. Does this mean Al is Polish? I should have known. Fortunately for me, I get whatever musical abilities I have from my mother's side of the family. The Polish side liked polkas. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Originally posted by bvince:
Our wives may be interested in knowing the answer to this one. My wife was very pleased with my decision not to have any more guitars last January of this year, when I acquired the HD-28. Then along came the Tak 3 months later, and then followed by the beat-up DX-1 a month after that, and she almost end up throwing my guitars away ... fortunately, I managed to talk her out it. Months passed, and she had completely forgotten all about it. I'm still hoping to have a companion for my one and only O ... but that's another story with the wife!! :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Gil, you need to check out the thread on my guitar justification system. I won't claim any royalties. |
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Location: NJ | ". . " Witaj Krolowo Nieba" - it is a traditional Polish song sung at the cemetary at the burial . ."
The English translation of the song is:
"Push the person who's NOT drinking into the hole" |
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Location: Oregon | For and acoustic I would be satisfied with a 47 reissue. Electric would be a Jackson USA Soloist eerie dess swirl. Man... I wish I had a job.... |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I have enough guitars right now if I'm honest about it. 5 Ovations, 1 Strat, 1 Guild, 1 Steinberger bass. Jack's bluegrass crew: 1 mandolin (which I can play enough to have fun), 1 banjo, 1 fiddle. There isn't anything I need--but if I didn't have to replace the roof I'd get another shallow baby done in Autumn Burst to be my "drag-around-in-all-kinds-of-weather" player. (And actually, I find the idea of an Ovation banjo and an Ovation fiddle kind of fascinating. I wonder what a fiddle would sound like if it had an LX body and either a koa or cedar top..........)
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I can hear the complaints now that it's too hard to keep under your chin. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Hmm.....I would like to hear more about the O F C guitar .. :) .. A blown-Up 1537 sunburst that can make Coffee perhaps..??.. ;)
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | I think I just got it. A CA X body OM composite guitar. Been playing it for about two weeks. Half the size of my 1987 Collectors and I and my wife tonight thinks it sounds better. I think the world is divided into two kinds of people: ones that have played this guitar and ones that have not. No, the 1987 Collectors is not for sale, still love that guitar.
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Location: ranson,wva | for electric it would have to be a breadwinner,acoustics would be,#47,adamas wide neck,adamas 12string,ofc guitar,and the lost art ovation,maybe even a adamas reso with inlayed multi soundholes..jason |
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