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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I noticed this guitar was pulled and relisted for sale, after I asked for more pictures of the damage around the place where the neck joins the body. No pictures were sent and the seller denys any damage to the guitar. Take a look at the one picture of the binding near the neck, and the frontal pic showing an apparent difference in the binding on BOTH sides near the neck, and tell me if you think there's something wrong. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | DANG! I did it again! here's the link ...
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Location: closely held secret | I never noticed before that the hatch on the 1687 was offset. Were they all like that? |
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Location: Orange County, California | Vince,
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Thanks for the info. Pardon my ignorance. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Waskel:
I never noticed before that the hatch on the 1687 was offset. Were they all like that? On the early Adamas models the hatch attches with 4 of those half-turn bolts that were used to hold the battery boxes in place before they put the battery access on the outside. As far as I remember they were always offset until they started using the claw contraption with a single center bolt. It's intersting to note that unlike the original slotheads the non-pickup models had hatches.
Apart from the issues with the binding near the neck joint, this looks like a nice one. Can't see the serial number but the Fundamental Frequency can be seen and it's 92Hz |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I wish I could get him to post some more pictures of that neck/body joint from different angles. Without pics I don't get any warm fuzzy feelings about it. It looks to me like the binding has been melted, but he says it just "crumbled off" by itself. That don't make a lot of sense to me, but who am I? |
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Location: Keller, TX | The Adamas II that I got from "He who was previously StandingO" had multiple places where the binding had crumbled/chipped. It was repaired when I sent it back to the mothership. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | it does appear to be melted, if so why? a possible repair attempt? still, it is a beautiful guitar. |
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Location: Scotland | What's going on with the pickup? Looks like there's a phenolic shim wedged down the side. Might be worth asking about that. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That "binding" is made out of some kind of fiberclass and it will chip off it you hit it just right. Just cosmetic, no big issue. Dave |
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Location: NJ | These things are fibreglass rings, and while I've seen 'em "chip/break" (one of the SlotHead's that MasterWong bought from ol' "Hector" was chipped), I've never seen 'em "crumble" . . .
At first, I thought that maybe somebody was playing on the upper reaches of the neck while wearing a big ring that might've chipped it . . . but it's curious that it "crumbled" (and has been "repaired" by way of melting on BOTH sides of the neck. Curiouser & curiouser . . . . |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Ttenn, about the Adamas II that you mentioned in your post, is that the same Adamas II that I'm now enjoying so much? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Brad, if you are referring to the RI that you just bought, I believe that came from Mike Stevens, the midwest Kaman rep. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
What's going on with the pickup? Looks like there's a phenolic shim wedged down the side. Might be worth asking about that. Boy are your eyes sharp. I didn't notice that until I went to the larger picture. :cool:
I wonder if it is to correct an intonation problem? |
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Location: NJ | THAT'S why he's "MasterTempleman" . . . . |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
What's going on with the pickup? Looks like there's a phenolic shim wedged down the side. Might be worth asking about that. Looks like he's found a neat place to store an "extra" shim........Just in case..... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It probably got dropped or bent somehow. That's how the ring crumbled. They don't melt. Look at the back of the bowl and you can clearly see the outline of the big triangle neck support block. Maybe he used heavy strings tuned above pitch and it stretched the bowl and bent everything up compressing the neck to the bowl and chipping the ring. Or it was dropped, or stored in too hot conditions which allowed the bowl to stretch causing the neck to compress, etc. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | "It probably got dropped or bent somehow. That's how the ring crumbled. They don't melt. Look at the back of the bowl and you can clearly see the outline of the big triangle neck support block."
I wonder if the strange shim location and that have anything in common? I guess if you could get the thing cheap enough, you could have just about anything fixed, if one was willing to pay the price to have it done. |
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What's your opinion on this ?