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Location: Indiana | Pretty... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Very pretty. Wonder if they'd knock off a grand and keep the cabinet? Seriously, this is art, right down to the tuner buttons. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Prof, do you think one grand would be the difference between a deal or no deal for anyone? Seriously, a $35,000 guitar would probably just sit in its expensive little cabinet our of fear of scratching it. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Only $35,000.00!!
I think I'll buy 8-10 "O''s and 4-5 Adamas instead! Oh and I'd still have some pocket money! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well based on the picture at the bottom of the page someone has already played it....so I'm out! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Richard, I agree with you. For collectors willing to pay these prices, they're not likely to quibble. |
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Location: NJ | a bit gaudy . . . |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Originally posted by cliff:
a bit gaudy . . . Cliff, don't you mean a fooking lot gaudy
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Location: Brisbane Australia | I'll take 20 nice "O's" thankyou
Or maybe a few Slotheads
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Are the makers dead yet?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The peghead is ugly.
Ther rest is pretty gaudy, but great workmanship.
If I was going to spend 35 large I'd buy something that will be worth 40 in a couple of years.
This ain't it. |
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Location: NJ | ". . If I was going to spend 35 large I'd buy something that will be worth 40 in a couple of years . ."
Well, . . in 5 years (their 40thAnniversary), they'll probably be trying to sell 'em for $40K . . .
. . . so, . . . that's . . . almost the same thing . . .
. . . innitt?? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | uhhh.........NO! |
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Location: NJ | oh, . . okay.
then, it's ugly AND over-priced. |
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Location: closely held secret | I thought the "purfling" was on the inside holding the top to the bottom, and the "binding" was covering the joint on the outside...? |
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Location: closely held secret | ...I meant "holding the top to the sides"... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | This is totally for the collector... Kinda like Samurai sword blades...
They buy them for the workmanship with no intention of using them.
The first dent (and you Know that is gonna happen) and there goes your 'value'.
It is kinda pretty... But I've seen better for less.
But it is still just an expensive "Wall Hanging" hence the cabinet.
[Two Adamii and pay-off the mortgage on my Mom's house] |
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| Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
I thought the "purfling" was on the inside holding the top to the bottom, and the "binding" was covering the joint on the outside...? From the Music Encyclopedia :
Purfling: n. Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.
The binding covers the outside joint, any additional decoration in the binding (such as wood or abalone inlay) is purfling.
The strip of wood inside to which the top/bottom is glued to the sides is called kerfing, from the woodworking term kerf, which is a narrow cut, usually across the grain, that is almost the full depth of the wood. |
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Location: closely held secret | Ah, thanks Serge. Got my perf n kerf mixed up. |
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| perf n kerf sounds like something off an Engrish menu... |
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Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming | All that gaudy stuff - that's what the extra $25K is for. |
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