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Location: Michigan | just saw on yahoo page .. GWB
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112356/carbon-fiber-gu... |
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Location: Scotland | These have been around for several years. A couple of years ago they introduced a non-travel size. Then at NAMM 2010 the brought out a carbon-fibre uke. I have never been impressed by the guitars, but the uke was spectacular |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The guitars weren't all that great but besides the uke I did really like the nylon. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | tired from last night's major gig, eh Beal! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Yeah... They are carbon-fiber.
But they are the Ugliest excuse for a guitar that I have seen.
And it is not that much smaller than I regular guitar, so what's the point?
There are Many nice travel guitars that cost a lot less than that, and look a lot better.
My Adamas cost less, Why would I get something that ugly for that kinda money?
And it don't even plug-in! :eek: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | But they double as a paddle. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
I'd go out on the ocean.
And if I had a Blackbird,
I'd play it on my boat.
And we could all together
go out on the ocean,
Me playing my ol' Blackbird on my boat." |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Damn DB, you are a song-writing machine!
(Is that to the tune of "Blackbird"?)
BTW-- After looking at that things repeatedly, it don't look too Ugly.
I still ain't buying one, just saying... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | OMA...do you KNOW how the tune "Blackbird" goes?
I just don't see ANY WAY that those words would fit the tune..........
but then again we are talkin Mr. T-Shirt (aka Darkbar). |
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Location: nashville | Darkbar gets 10 points for the Lyle Lovett/Beatles cross reference. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Yeah... They are carbon-fiber.
But they are the Ugliest excuse for a guitar that I have seen.
And it is not that much smaller than I regular guitar, so what's the point?
There are Many nice travel guitars that cost a lot less than that, and look a lot better.
My Adamas cost less, Why would I get something that ugly for that kinda money?
And it don't even plug-in! :eek:
Come to think of it, I'd take the guitar too...I think the durability would be a selling point. Leave it in the trunk overnight? In heat, cold, rain or shine? That's a GOOD thing. Desipte their durability, I'd NEVER do that to ANY of my Adamases.
The YouTube demos seem to show that it has a surprisingly nice sound too.
Beal's right: you could use it as a paddle too!
Not sure all that adds up to $1,600 worth of selling points, but selling points they are, none the less.
Then, of course, there's the girl. It DOES come with the girl, right?
And the canoe? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Even the headstock is ugly. You have futuristic looking guitar with a headstock that looks like it's from a 1910 Gibson |
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Location: Michigan | For $1600 I could trash 3 or 4 nice ovations by leaving them in the trunk, in the rain, or loaning them to somebody who lives in Florida and they would be a longer paddle...and they would make a nice salad bowl when all is said and done. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by twistedlim:
For $1600 I could trash 3 or 4 nice ovations by leaving them in the trunk, in the rain, or loaning them to somebody who lives in Florida and they would be a longer paddle...and they would make a nice salad bowl when all is said and done. Lol! So true!
But, with this thing you could have all that and KEEP your 3 or 4 nice Ovations as well!
'Course, you'd have to buy a salad bowl... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | They must have been advertising it's usefulness as a canoe paddle.
Otherwise, showing a girl in a canoe in a sweatshirt and pants is just lousy advertising. Must be made in Minnesota or Canada. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Well, I listened to the youtubes and I thought it sounded pretty thin.
Plus, I hate the headstock. Why does it look like the truss rod cover is missing? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | dark bar asks:
Why does it look like the truss rod cover is missing? It doesn't have a TRC.
It also doesn't have an adjustable Truss Rod.
The neck is a Hollow Tube and that thing on the headstock is a Hole.
Supposedly it transfers sound up towards your ear.
(Or at least that is what Blackbird said in an ad from a year or two ago) |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Must be made in Minnesota or Canada. San Francisco. The paddles will be real handy if the big quake that is predicted for sometime the next week actually hits. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
They must have been advertising it's usefulness as a canoe paddle.
Otherwise, showing a girl in a canoe in a sweatshirt and pants is just lousy advertising. Must be made in Minnesota or Canada. Yes, but what a girl! Pretty, outdoorsy (the canoe), and plays guitar! Well on her way to being the whole package! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | done there, been that...
Got the T-shirt.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | The price is the only put off on this for me. I like the design. I think it's cool, and while nearly full size, a little easier to stow. But, for that price.. could get several travel guitars. |
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Location: closely held secret | For that price, you could get a guitar that sounds a lot better. Like Paul and Stephen, I was impressed by the uke and the nylon. The other models had no character. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | At half the price and only slightly larger the CA Cargo blows the BB out of the water, so to speak... no comparison. Cargo's tone and volume are nearly indistinguishable from a full size guitar. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | LOL looooove the cartoon! |
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carbon fiber guitar gets big press release