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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Time has come to revisit the option of moving this out to someone that will play it.
Purchased new from Lost Vintage Arts May 2006. Serial #9, 9158-0 case. $4,300-OBO, shipped lower 48. I will also entertain partial cash and trade offers. This guitar has less than 20 hours total play time on it, like new condition. Certificate's of Authenticity. Case has a couple of scuff marks from storage in the closet. Will also include OFC special slothead custom order soft leather strap with full price sale.
I have more pictures posted in my PicasaWeb: 1187-247 For sale |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Quit plugging in all the time Tim.
Is there a better sounding all acoustic then this one?
Good Luck on the sale! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Best of luck Tim! :eek: |
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Location: NJ | all I can say is don't do it |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Tim, I know the dilemma...it'll work out for ya... |
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Location: Colorado | Wow, Tim. I wish I could be the lucky one.
Best of luck with the sale. |
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Location: Right now? | Oh, geez, Tim. I wish you didn't have to sell her. This is my very, very favorite guitar, hands downs! I think I'd get rid of every other guitar I owned before I'd sell mine.
Best wishes with your sale, and I sure do hope someone who will play her buys her.
I feel like Al wrote: Don't do it...
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Location: big island | you could buy it for me, willa. i'm just a poor broke college boy. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | #47 finally ended my GAS. OK, so it's only been 3 months. That's a long time for me. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by lanaki:
you could buy it for me, willa. i'm just a poor broke college boy. And he knows how to balance it on a stool too... ;) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Nice guitar. Good luck to ya! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
#47 finally ended my GAS. and at a give away price! |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | It's a GREAT guitar, but I spend the balance of my time between the OFC I & II. They meet my acoustic needs perfectly. I don't need to sell the 47RI, I just don't want a case queen. I know we have some new members that didn't have the opportunity to snag one of these. This is only being offered here on the board, I'm not sending this off to ebay. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by stephent28:
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
#47 finally ended my GAS. and at a give away price! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Tim, I don't have to sell #189 either...but I am wanting to finish the OFC II purchase and it does give someone else a chance at these early guitars...in addition, I'm running out of closet and case space and you're running out of space on your music room walls...lol
The problem with nice collections is that it is increasingly difficult to decide which one to sell...and easy to talk yourself out of the sale...don't I know about that... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Newington, CT | I think I played this guitar every so briefly at the NJ gathering. Just gorgeous! Worth every penny and more, IMHO!
I wish, I wish, I wish!!! |
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Location: SoCal | Closest guitar to the original slotheads and about his asking price is about 1/3 the price (if you could find one). |
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Location: Right now? | Tony,
and about his asking price is about 1/3 the price
Huh?
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Location: SoCal | For the original slotheads, when ownership is transfered - not unusual for the new owner to be anonymous and no disclosure of the price.
I'm not shy and publish this more to identify the market price...which will continue to increase as more and more recognize the value of this rare instrument.
Couple of weeks ago...number 50 for $12,500. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Tony, Karl (Charlie Ramon) and others claimed that the #47RI sounded better than the OFC guitar. Initially I couldn't tell the difference, but now that I have both, I can detect a slight difference. Since I rarely plug in and prefer red to blue, the 47 really is the ultimate guitar for me. It has been the guitar that gets all my attention lately so that I have to remember to pay some attention to the others. Tim's may be the best Adamas available on the market right now. I hope someone here can appreciate that. |
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Location: SoCal | I understand how fortunate to have the original, 47RI, and the OFC slotheads...as far as I know, there are a handful of regular posters on the OFC that have all three. By the way, the graphite case that Al got us for the OFC guitar is now the case for # 50.
I do believe that my # 3 47RI is better than my
# 7 OFC...not much and maybe it is because it is acoustic v. a/e. Both are great instruments and the OFC has the advantage of being an a/e two knobber.
I have noticed it also in the acoustic custom legends and Glen Campbells v. the same a/e. Not much and too many variables but nice that we have the guitars to compare.
No question about it...the original slothead is better than the 47RI. Course, a pre-war Martin is considered better than a current production vintage (if the old Martin has even survived).
Give the 47RI a few more years and hundreds of hours of playing time...then, it will be an interesting comparison with one of the 34 pre-production originals.
Believe me or not, I believe that the original slothead will be even harder to find, most likely transfer privately, and more expensive. The slothead 47RI or the slothead OFC will also be very hard to find...and, never produced again.
A custom order through the Mothership might be able to make an Adamas I (1687) with inlaids of Tinkerbell on the fretboard but the work that was done on the 47RI and the OFC slotheads would require a lot more, as well as a lot more cash. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I don't know anything about custom order pricing other than ones that I've had myself, but I would guess that to have a 47RI type guitar custom built today would be significantly more expensive than the 47RI's every were. Probably sniffing the 7-8k range if I had to guess.
Tony is spot on correct abot the comparisons. 47RI and OFC are close, but not idential. The 47RI has got some extra balls in there. But neither can do justice to an original slothead. They might in 30 years, and I hope I'm around to witness it. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | SOLD - pending payment to one of our own here on the OFC :D |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Nnnnnice! Congratulations to who ever the lucky new owner is.
I don't why you're being shy about it.
I only wish thay made a cutaway version of it. I really need access to the upper frets. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by bvince:
I really need access to the upper frets. Show off! :D |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Don't know who the buyer is or if he will disclose the final price but it is always nice to see where the new benchmarks are for the creme de la creme.
Last 2 original slotheads went for 12,500 each.
Should be interesting where one of the best copies lands. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Originally posted by bvince:
I really need access to the upper frets.
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Show off!
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Old #9 has gone to live with its new owner in New Jersey :( but it's someone that will play her! I'll leave it up to our mystery OFC member to decide if they want to go public with the details...although I think I've converted another over to the Adamas side :D |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by bvince:
I really need access to the upper frets. Me too. It's where I store all my high notes when I'm not using them. |
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Location: SW Washington | I am with bvince on that one...I use the upper frets extensively... could not do without a cutaway any more. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by Tim in Tidewater:
Old #9 has gone to live with its new owner in New Jersey :( but it's someone that will play her! I'll leave it up to our mystery OFC member to decide if they want to go public with the details...although I think I've converted another over to the Adamas side :D It ain't me! Willa... did you snag another one?? |
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Location: Right now? | No, Mike, I didn't get her ... my cup runneth over as it is. One of these days I'll get all my photos up... Karen, do you have a surprise for the slumber party?
Ohhh ... the mystery continues ...
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Location: SoCal | told the happy buyer he was supposed to brag about his new guitar :D
maybe he will tell us his thoughts. |
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Location: New Jersey / New York | Well it's official, I've had this guitar for exactly one week and I'd like thank Tony Calman, alpep and especially Tim for helping me make an easy decision to acquire this guitar an even easier one. All I have to say is that I LOVE the guitar! It's unlike anything else I've owned and it has "that" sound! Talk about sonic boom! And I thought my 1719-30CM sounded amazing! I can't stop playing AND looking at this 1187-247! I'm very happy I was able to get this guitar from a class act such as Tim via the OFC! Tim definitely has converted another over to the Adamas side! Perhaps a 1687-8 Adamas I Reissue next? Adamas: Nothing else like them... On that note, let's go New York Yankees!!!
Best regards,
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Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9......... |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | :D :D :D |
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Location: Colorado | Congrats!! Glad we could keep it in the "family". Maybe one day I'll be fortunate enough to just play one.
Enjoy it! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Todd there are several real close to you and also Mark has an original. You should try to get together with us at the next Colorado gathering. |
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Location: SoCal | Glad you like the guitar.
Yankees suck.... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Yankees suck.... ... Obviously a bitter resident of southern california. Land of firm breast implants and soft baseball teams. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Yankees suck.... ... Obviously a bitter resident of southern california. Land of firm breast implants and soft baseball teams. |
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Location: Colorado | Wanted to get with you guys Stephen, but I think my baseball coaching duties wouldn't allow it.
I thought Cali was the home of boobs and botox, not softball teams...
Glad you like the 47RI 3894. But sorry. Go Phillies. |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Todd G.:
I thought Cali was the home of boobs ...
It is ... especially our elected officials.
Congrats on a great guitar. |
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FS: ADAMAS 47RI - 1187-247 serial #9