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Location: UK | Well I got my 1537 in November but then i spent the next 2 months looking for my camera which someone has surely hidden , the next month i spent trying to remember the pin number of my credit card which i had deliberately forgotten as it is still melting under the furnace of outstanding debt on the obscenely expensive larrivee i bought , i then bought a new camera and spent the next month staring at the 300 page instruction book , then i had to wait 6 weeks for a sunny day to take the pictures and then i just didnt get round to posting them 
Puppy is about to learn what "Nooooooooooo " means :eek:
Totally love the guitar ,thanks again Woz, gets played every day |
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Location: Parrish, FL | Andrea,
Don't stay a stranger! We missed you.
Blues |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | What has happened to that guitar ?? |
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Location: UK | Cheers Blues !
Er slightly paranoid about " What has happened to that guitar " comment |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Shadows , perhaps ?? |
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Location: Tennessee | Nice pics, Andrea. Real close to being an upskirt tho'. Yer such a tease! ;) |
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Location: big island | mighty fine lookin' 1537, andrea. thanks for finally gettin' around to show us your treasure.
reflections, vic, reflections! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just put new strings on mine and polished it up last night. The groves that are starting to appear in the frets and fretboard show how much I like it. They are truly wonderful instruments. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Nice one Andrea.
Don't let that hound near the headstock |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Lovely guitar, very purdy. Dogs need to learn "leave it". Our chew everything puppy is still alive because he has never touched the guitar or piano. Maybe carbon fibre and lycrachord aren't an attractive nibble (unlike runners and underwear?). |
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| Oohh, pretty! Looks like some quilting on the bouts. Very nice top. Is that the same dog that chewed the Yamaha?!?!
We've missed you Andrea, glad to see you're back. |
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Location: UK | Cheers Guys , nice to hear from everyone , t'was other dog that ate the yamaha , this one fortunately loves all my sons toys so mine are safe ! |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | WOW! DO you mind me asking - how much did that baby set you back? |
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Location: UK | Hi dweezil , it was $600 as i remember , they are truely things of beauty , i just love playing it |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Thanks - a good price - theres one on Ebay for $900 at the moment...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220240274...
I'm tempted but at $900 perhaps it's too much - yours looks in 100^% condition!
I play finderstyle not strumming so perhaps a 1537 is more suited to strumming? |
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Location: UK | I dont find that and i play both styles , the tone is so rich and i find it dead easy to play , think i was very lucky getting mine for what i did , i think trader jim sold his at around about the same time for the price yours is on at , as i said on other post if it got stolen i would replace it ( on credit card !) for $900 without hesitation
Go on , you know you wanna |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Did you look at the Ebay one - yours looks in much better condition (or is it down to the photos). |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Dweez, the 1537 you linked to on eBay is being sold by a long-time OFC member and looks to be in great shape. Especially given that it came back from CT within the last year.. they do amazing restoration/service work... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I paid more than $900 for mine and it was worth it. I always seem to buy at the height of the market, though. They are very easy playing, mellow guitars, so they are perfect for fingerstyle. That's all I've played on mine. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Nice guitar Andrea, Dweez, go buy that other one. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Mauvais, yes sir!
Andrea, curse you! If I hadn't seen your lovely guitar I think I might have just about got away with buying anymore Os. I really hope mine is as good looking as yours. As for tone well I trust the collective wisdom of the members of this board.... |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | I wonder if my 1537 is gonna look as lovely as Andreas, it does look very clean and new with a lovely deep gloss, the pics on Ebay seem to suggest my one is not a patch on this one.
Was your restored or something? |
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Location: closely held secret | The pictures of yours were taken indoors. You just need to look at the right pic.
Yours....
Andreas...
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Righto, sorry was freaked for a moment. If I hadn't seen this thread then I think I would have managed to not have sucumbed to the temptation to buy a 1537 but once I saw it, it was gonna happen. |
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Location: SoCal | Beautiful 1537 Andrea.
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I paid more than $900 for mine and it was worth it. I always seem to buy at the height of the market, though... If it still looks like this, you can get your money back and then some.
Your purchase also came with the Adoption Agency's Limited+™ Lifetime Warranty which includes electronics package upgrades at cost.
Your new 2-Knobber preamp kit has been in stock!
Moody upgraded his 1537 and says it was worth it. He even installed it himself. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Originally posted by noah:
Your purchase also came with the Adoption Agency's Limited+™ Lifetime Warranty which includes electronics package upgrades at cost.
Your new 2-Knobber preamp kit has been in stock!
Moody upgraded his 1537 and says it was worth it. He even installed it himself. What are you talking about? Sorry for my ignorance... |
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Location: SoCal | Mark adopted his 1537 from me.
Moody adopted his first '87 Collector from Tony and me.
Tony and I used to adopt and adopt-out a lot of guitars... thus the joke about the "Adoption Agency".
"Limited+™ Lifetime Warranty"... just a joke warranting the work I did on Mark's guitar.
"new 2-Knobber preamp"... we bought a handful of new 2-Knobber preamp setups for replacements in our 1537's and to have a couple local spares. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Why would I need a replacement? |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Maybe I'm worrying unneccessarily but it looks like the neck is coming away from the body.
Also I think the fret board needs some oiling... |
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| Originally posted by dweezil:
Maybe I'm worrying unneccessarily... YES!
Part of the reason the 1537 has such a supperior sound is the "floating" freatboard, in other words the fretboard extension south of where the neck joins the body isn't glued to the top. It's thought that allows more of the top to vibrate, producing more/richer volume and tone.
Fretboard needs oiling? So what? Routine maintenance.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just got back to these posts and noticed Noah's. An old friend from college was visiting. The last time I saw him I had just bought the 1537 and he had just bought a Taylor. I did way better. Since then I've gone a bit crazy, so he didn't have much chance to play them all. The 1537 plays as well as any of them. The neck is starting to show some wear, though. That might be an indication of how much I play it vs. the others. As far as the electronics upgrade, Bruce, I'll pass. I notice a difference between the old one and the new of the OFC, but I never get around to plugging any of them in. Maybe I'll start taking all the preamps out. |
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Location: notts | nice guitar now ive sen yours i show you mine go to photobucket file name stuartbiggs |
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G8r and Stuart , you finally get to see mine