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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | 1537 |
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Location: SoCal | You mean besides the two dots on the bridge and the screw in the fretboard?
Nope.... |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Actually, another thing. Is it possible to get an unemcumbered photo of the label like that? I mean, you have to shoot through the epaulet hole to get it, right? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's possible and it looks like the label, correctly showing it "upside down" if you blow up the picture of the front of the guitar. That also shows that someone figured they'd "fix" the floating fretboard by running a screw through it. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | At a starting bid of $399 and no reserve who cares!
Buy a screwdriver on the way to picking up the guitar and remove the screw when you get home!
BOOM....one of the legendary 1537's on the cheap! |
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Location: NW Washington State | Do we have a member in Aurora, Colorado- same place as the auction? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I'm in Denver and Aurora is a suburb. The seller could be 10 or 30 miles away depending upon the address. I could probably take a ride out there tomorrow evening. The auction closes Saturday afternoon. If this is something that would be helpful, contact the seller and set it up, then send me the info via PM. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I have spent $400 on lesser Ovations that needed more work. I just considered I was saving a guitar from the junk pile. This one would be a very worthy rescue.
Then again, gone are the days when I would spend $400 on a guitar rescue. The wealth has evaporated for such things : ( |
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Location: Colorado | I am game too...I live about 20 miles away....contact the seller....pm me and/or professor....Brad - I can drive if it is prior to Saturday....might just go myself |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
You mean besides the two dots on the bridge and the screw in the fretboard? Did the factory ever bolt the bridges on any 1537's? I just picked up a 1537 with a bridge and interior that look nearly identical to the photos below from Jerome's site. If it was an aftermarket mod, it was well done.
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Location: SoCal | remember back a few years...I rec'd a 1537 where an individual screwed down the floating fretboard, probably believing that it was coming up.
released the screw and the fretboard came back to parameters...made a redwood wood plug for the hole. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
remember back a few years...I rec'd a 1537 where an individual screwed down the floating fretboard, probably believing that it was coming up.
released the screw and the fretboard came back to parameters...made a redwood wood plug for the hole. How much space should there be between the floating fretboard and the soundboard of the guitar? |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | About the thickness of a credit card or less. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by cholloway:
About the thickness of a credit card or less. Sounds about right, I can just barely slip a thin guitar pick under mine. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Standing, my 1547 has the "dots" and bolts as well.
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Kurt |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by Koenig Kurt:
Standing, my 1547 has the "dots" and bolts as well.
Best regards,
Kurt Thanks Kurt. Someone here probably knows for certain if the factory ever bolted any of the 1537/47 bridges… I suspect that they did, based on the number of photos I've seen that have identical wooden dots. Of course, we've seen a few photos of screws in the floating fretboard also, and we KNOW those were not original. ;) |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Wow! that went cheap! ... Anyone here get it? |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Indeed!! Extremely cheap. In Europe they'll go around €750,00=$1050,00. Great guitar for the bucks.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Indeed!! Extremely cheap. In Europe they'll go around €750,00=$1050,00 ...
WOW! ... I can't wait until my son and daughter-in-law transfer to Germany this fall. Then I can go visit them and bring along a couple guitars to sell at the same time. (: |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Bryan, would be glad to see you here. Put a couple Adamas into your package, Adamas are really rare here. The prices for new ones are 2500,00€ and more.
The 1681-5 Patch has sold last week would have been gone around 1500,00€, more than $2000,00 in that great condition.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Nice idea (: |
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