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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | No, its not an A or O but it is a beauty!
Obviously, not for the faint of heart:
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Location: Battle Ground, WA. | Damn,
That's all I got..... Damn
(almost wish I could type it in a southern accent) |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Keep it in the neutral NW one...that's all you need say here.
Mike, I know you have expensive taste, but... :eek: |
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Location: GA USA | I keep hitting the buy it now, but nothing's happening. Mike, does it work on your computer? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | This baby is...
GONE! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | from the realm of possibility of me EVER affording a guitar like that!
Hey....at least it comes with a FREE CASE! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Pretty pricy
I'm getting a D-45 style Merrill with extra inlay and the price is nowhere that.
This should be 12+/- a couple.
But if you don't ask, you don't get. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Pretty pricy... This should be 12+/- a couple. Oh, no worries then, only 12+/-? I'll write a check! :D |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
I keep hitting the buy it now, but nothing's happening. Mike, does it work on your computer? I've been thinking of installing a breathalyzer on my Mac. Whenever I go onto craigslist or eBay I have to pass the test first. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | You know what? I have a feeling that even with all the bling-bling, that the thing doesn't sound NEARLY as good as a USA made Ovation. I've played some "pretty" Martins with price tags higher than this one, and they didn't always sound all that great. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, there is that. It's an OM and they have a different personality. A Dread will just knock you over when it's good. These require a bit more decerning of the pallet.... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Yeah, there is that. It's an OM and they have a different personality. A Dread will just knock you over when it's good. These require a bit more decerning of the pallet.... Copy that. The OM's are a bit like acquiring a taste for Scotch. :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Been there, done that.
and when it's good, it's really good. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | :D |
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Location: Tennessee | For what it's worth, I don't think the H&D is worth 6 times an EF75. Nice guitar, though. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | I look at that and then look at the EF75 and just "SMILE"!!!!
Sometimes life is good! :) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Serously beautiful BW though...it's getting very hard to find now...esp after the feds broke up the smuggling ring over Christmas...lots of nice wood suddenly off the market... |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Mike, are you a Fed or a smuggler?? ;)
Sounds like insider info.... |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I DO appreciate great woodwork also. There's something special about putting that first coat of oil on a piece of quality wood. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just found out there was a luthier in McCall, Idaho, A. Lawrence Smart, who builds some nice looking guitars, using spruce that he finds locally. If I'd have known about him earlier, I'd have offered him a couple spruce trees that I had to cut down next to the cabin. Maybe I could have talked him into a discount. I finished cutting it up for firewood last summer. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Mark, maybe he makes Ukes too? :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If he makes Ukes he wasn't advertising it. |
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Location: Jet City | My Dad used to collect old and odd acoustics, he had 20 or 30 of them. THere was a luthier he knew in Berkeley named Ervin Somogyi and he wanted to borrow the collection to study the different build techniques and such, so Dad brought them over to his studio.
Maybe some of you remember there was a firestorm through the Oakland/Berkeley hills back in '91. They all went up. The man lost all his works of art along with my Dad's guitars. It was a tragedy.
This luthier makes some of the most beautiful guitars there are, but they start at $25000. If that doesn't make you flinch, well, have a look at his website, or dream guitars, or just Google him.
Ervin Somogyi Guitars |
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Location: NJ | iREMEMBERthem(YearsAgo) . . .
. . but I remember them as Classicals/Flemencos (not Dreds&Co.(ooops, I think I just "copywrited" that name . . MoronThisLater . . . ) . . . anyway, IDoRememberThem(YearsAgo) . . .
. . . hey! . . didn't I just SAY that(Oops,Again!)
sorry . . HomeFrommaGig, Wired/OverTired . . .
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iDoRememberThem . . ( Y e a r s A - g - o . ) . . . . . . |
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| I hope this guy made a real nice custom for your Dad.
He does make some real nice stuff! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cliff, better take some more Advil and a little nap! |
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Location: Jet City | Nope, Dad never even said a thing, just wrote it off. Trust me, the big tragedy was Somogyi's stuff. Dad's weren't worth much, at least not then, who knows now.
I remember an old Stella, and maybe a Kay. I doubt he paid more than $20 for any single one.
Doesn't quite add up to a Somogyi custom though, that's for sure. |
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