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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | LIMITED TO ONLY 60 MADE!!!!
Solid Koa back and sides with solid bearclaw spruce top....nice claw!
This is a stock photo since the guitar is currently residing with Jeff. I am sure he can snap some photos for me and attest to this guitars condition, sound, and playability!
Body Shape: New Yorker
Rosette: Abalone
Top: Solid Bear Claw Spruce
Inlays: Dots
Back: Solid Koa
Sides: Solid Koa
Fingerboard: Ebony
Electronics: TLD Line Driver
Tuners: Gold & Pearl
This guitar is just a tone machine acoustically. New yorker size is slightly smaller but sounds much bigger, really projects well. Has a nicely balanced woody tone with rich harmonics and clear string separation. Just a sweet ax. Maybe it is the hi grade solid koa, or the solid bearclaw spruce top, or the attention to detail, or all of it together, but if this ax had a different logo, it would sell for twice as much easily.
These list for $2700 new and street price is still around $1900-2000.
Excellent plus/near mint with OHSC.
This is really a steal at the price of $1600 shipped CONUS. |
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Location: NJ | I LOVE that Guitar!!! . . .
Somebody should snatch it up, quick! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | That's a pretty one Stephen! Nice grain! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | What's the white square on the side of the bridge? |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by stephent28:
This is a stock photo since the guitar is currently residing with Jeff... |
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Location: NJ | It's a sticker. |
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Location: SoCal | That looks just like the guitar Jeff sold me..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Excellent Moody. You will love it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Nice, Paul! |
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Location: SoCal | I'm teasing. Jeff still has it...... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | bet reading those responses soiled yer pants! |
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Location: closely held secret | Bad Moody. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by dvd:
What's the white square on the side of the bridge? Trader Jim's address?? :D |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Photos of actual guitar thanks to Jeff braving the heavy storms and sending them to me with his internet basically down!
Slothead with DR Blue Peacocks
Beautiful Bearclaw spruce. This bear was aggressive!
Solid KOA Sides....lovely coloring
More to follow............ |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Just bringing this one back up into the spotlight before I ebay it.
Fabulous guitar someone should grab. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | NO BUMP FOR YOU !!! |
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Location: closely held secret | Here, Stephen. I've been under my bump quota, I can spare you one. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Thanks Wabbit,
Let me send this one to vacation at your house for a while. I like how short term visitors become adopted as permanent family members! |
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Location: closely held secret | Since I'll no doubt have to go into hiding when it shows up, make sure your address is on it, so my wife knows where to send the hit man.
...on second thought, please don't send it. My guitar allowance got used up on the last 'visitor' from Colorado. I would prefer to not celebrate my next birthday posthumously. I can't say for sure that I could get out of the house fast enough. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | ohhhhh but this one is so wittle and cute.
Mommy will love it..... |
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Location: closely held secret | no, No, NO, NOOOOOO! Stop it, stop it, you psycho, you madman!!!! Stop offering to send me free guitars!!! Have you no compassion?
Nooooooo....
Nooooooo....
Nooooooo....
Nooooooo....
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Beautiful Original Hardshell Case that makes a nice bed for when you wake up from sobbing and whimpering on the floor. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | The cats like those cases too. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | This is a beautiful guitar. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
no, No, NO, NOOOOOO! Stop it, stop it, you psycho, you madman!!!! Stop offering to send me free guitars!!! Have you no compassion?
Nooooooo....
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;) Technically... Stephen wouldn't actually be sending you the guitar... |
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Location: closely held secret | Swine. Why don't you buy it, and save all those shipping costs? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | cause I'll soon be in hock with Al the Shylock... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Wabbit, since we all know yer wife loves wittle things :eek: , she would surely fall in love with this one also... |
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Location: NJ | Somebody BUY this f@ckin' thing already!!!
YouGuys're killing me w/this one!
(this IS a great guitar!!) |
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Location: Fernandina Beach | hmmmmmm my husband has been askin me what i want for mothers day ..... what ya think Bill, is this one for me ??
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | If yer askin Bill, I might as well send it to ya! ;) |
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Location: Fernandina Beach | he was tellin me a need a smaller body guitar and i tend to agree and hey i am a bit fortunate in that my birthday and mothers day fall together hmmmmm wonder if that would qualify me for a discount lol
No Sales Tax in FLA
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | It'll fit ya, Pit... |
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Location: SoCal | Tak 417 sold...
Temp will be getting my 1685-8 Adamas II 12-string.
Stephen...you have to stop this madness. The HD-28VS and the Tak 417 in the same month :eek: :eek: :D :eek: :eek: |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Thank you TC.....you will really like this one.
and so far as the madness goes.......what till Beal, Tuppy, and I get you going on the Collings.....then the madness will really begin!
Maybe one or two more acoustics to go and then I start in on the electrics and the amps and the pedals! |
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Location: SoCal | I hope this is the extent of the wood boxes.
Tak Nashville TVN360SC
Tak 417S
Tak Classical CP132SC
Martin HD-28VS
Martin D-25K2 |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Enjoy. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | There is a strong likelihood that at the end of each day, guitars that find their way into the OFC stay with the OFC? How many of us have bought from or sold to our OFC Brothers and Sisters? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
I hope this is the extent of the wood boxes.
Tak Nashville TVN360SC
Tak 417S
Tak Classical CP132SC
Martin HD-28VS
Martin D-25K2 It won't be.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | If you stay here long enough, you will eventually buy or sell to an OFC brother.....
or just send them one to play with cause you don't have any available space to store it.
Fortunately we have some members like Tuppy and Trader Jim who like to buy brands other than O's and A's and then grow tired of them and introduce them to the OFC masses. |
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Location: SoCal | We are fortunate on the OFC...many of us haven't met each other, yet we sell, buy, and trade...I have never had a bad deal, either in condition of the guitar (disclosure) or price. Last year, I sold or traded fifteen, all to OFC'ers. In addition, I have loaned guitars and been the recipient.
It is a good group... |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by stephent28:
or just send them one to play with cause you don't have any available space to store it
...but getting them back is the hard part :D |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | there is a method to the insanity!
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Stephen is devious. Or a terrific marketer. He's hooked me a few times using this ploy, although I'm an easy mark. |
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Location: closely held secret | He's a devious marketer... |
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Location: SoCal | Oh... I'm suppose to loan out the ones I want to sell!
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Stephen is devious. Or a terrific marketer. He's hooked me a few times using this ploy, although I'm an easy mark. Ditto... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Bruce, I thought you learned the lesson when a fretless bass showed up unannounced on your doorstep :D You were in the advanced class and didn't even realize it!
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Location: NJ | He tried the Tak417 on me, but I had to FIGHT t'resist . . .
. . to alleviate the "guilt", I had to send some money to Al . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Shoud've asked after a bottle of Patron. |
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The Brown truck will be here Monday. Appropriate title...The insanity continues. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well......waddaya think? |
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Location: SoCal | Hmmm, okay but been so busy, this is not the final...
It has strings on it (DR Blue Peacock) that Stephen says are 6 mos old, look new. Haven't restrung as I have strung two 12's and 2 6's since it arrived.
Finally figured how to get a proper playing position with a strap. As it is a New Yorker, at first it felt like a tenor uke. Looks like a little brother next to a deep bowl or the 'D' Martins.
So, with that said...it is a gorgeous guitar, bearclaw and Koa. Physically, it feels very comfortable. Very comfortable neck. Even with old strings, beautiful "voice" over the spectrum (bass to tenor), very well balanced. May not change the strings for a year or so. :eek:
Similar to the pre-amp of the FD-14, output through endpin w/o tone/vol. No problem, I use a Dean Markley on my acoustic Martins and don't need more. A very nice example of Takamine's best. |
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Location: SoCal | I need to compliment Jeff W. on his packing...UPS did their combined best to destroy the box with cuts, compression damage, etc. No way that this box could be reused. Although there is a very slight smudge on the top of the case where they wacked the box, the case still looks great and the guitar survived. The neck was padded and wrapped. Without the extra TLC, it probably would have had a broken neck. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hate UPS (just personal bad luck with them) so I always try to go USPS Priority Mail first and FedX second with UPS the dead last choice.
YMMV |
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Location: SoCal | This is the 2nd fine guitar from Stephen in about 30 days (other was the Martin HD-28VS)...
Stephen is highly recommended as a seller for several reasons: crazy (as most of us are), concern about the buyer's needs, and excellent disclosure.
Would I buy again from him? Hope not but my willpower is weak :eek: :D :eek: |
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Takamine EF417 - The insanity continues