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Location: liverpool ,england | if you had to use just one guitar for all round use ie fingerstyle, strumming, blues, etc ,what would it be i'd go with my folklore 1614 but thats cos i like the wide neck.... |
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Location: south east Michigan | A UTE....
But I would really miss the features the other models have to offer. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I'd keep my 08C - Wide neck, cut away, contour. The only changes I'd make to it would be to add broccoli and change the colour - i.e. cosmetic stuff. |
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| Limiting myself to Ovation products, it would have to be my 08C because of the wider neck. Otherwise, it'd be a tossup between my Takamine EF75J and my Collings CJ. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I was gonna say my 1114 Folklore because of the comfortable neck...
BUT! It doesn't plug-in.
So if I can only keep just one, it would be the Sweetwater T.
(But I would drop the OP-Pro Studio into it! :cool: ) |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | It'd be a real hard race between UTE and FD14, but I think the FUD would win it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | If I had one guitar I'd have more girlfriends.
....at least that's what I tell the wife. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Slothead #57 wideneck |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I would choose for my Takamine 09 LTD.
The beauty of this guitar is that it's certainly nice enough to meet all my needs in one instrument, but not sooo nice that it would break my heart if something bad happended to it. |
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Location: Jet City | Hmmm... Electric or acoustic? Hmmm...
I might just have to buy one of these monstrosities if I had to only have one!
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I'd have one of those custom built wood topped Adamas guitars with my own additional custom features added. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Gallerinski's wideneck OFC II.
Otherwise my own OFC II...but I'd SURE miss the other ones.
I have an FD-14 that's gorgeous beyond words. I have a couple o'2080's that are gorgeous beyond words. I have a couple o''07c's that are gorgeous beyond words...
Each in its own way...
And I have some lower enders that I just love to take out once in a while, that I'd really miss.
They each contribute to a different longing at a different time and they each fulfill that longing just right.
Man, that WOULD be a tough choice! |
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Location: SoCal | If I could have just one guitar? It changes on a daily basis.... |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | ... Would that be considered a customcustom? or a double custom? ... anyway, I'd add a brocolli slothead neck and Adamas I bridge with black saddle, Op Pro Studio or preferably a custom, dual input (mic'd) FET system, Aged bearclaw spruce or a really bling-bling fine-grained nutmeg top with custom-made epaulet, containing my choice of woods, deep cutaway contour bowl, 1 3/4" black bone nut, Temp's amber tuning pegs, and my signiture inlaid with 24K gold at the 12th fret, and oh yeah... gold frets. (: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I haven't found one guitar for "all around" use. Like all season tires, they just don't exist. I prefer a bit wider neck for the fingerstyle stuff that I do mostly, but a bunch of fingerstyle stuff uses bar chords. Barring an F on a wide neck is too hard for me to do and on a classical guitar it's impossible.
Can't get a 6 string to sound like a 12 string.
Can't get a nylon string sound out of a steel string guitar.
Can't get an electric sound out of an acoustic guitar.
I had a hybrid, a Duotone, and it just sat there. I finally decided that I agreed with Adrian Legg, that it was a stupid idea.
Trick question with no answer. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Funny, I posed this exact same question a year or so ago, and someone said that it pops up every year or so. I guess it's about time for the "how did you pick your user name" thread again. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If you find the link, I'd be interested in seeing what I said last year. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | My Elite for Ovations, but I would rather have my old 61 Fender Acoustic. I wrote my first song on and many after. Lost due to a divorce. It had so much pearl inlaid in the body, neck and head stock, even Fender was pearl along with the scroll work. It was an all around getting guitar. :confused: |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
If you find the link, I'd be interested in seeing what I said last year. This... (Bottom of the Page)
Wouldn\'t choose in \'08 'Bout halfway down the page.
Couldn\'t choose in \'06 neither... |
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Location: Flahdaw | Whatever happened to Mark1960? |
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Location: Location Location Location | I guess it would be a UTE. Well maybe a second UTE. Yes, that would be 2 UTES. Did you say '2 UTES?' |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | At least I'm consistent. I've also learned a few more songs, but I don't play any that use alternate tunings regularly. I guess that excuse won't work anymore. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | 2005 was a little different...
This was excuses to justify more than One guitar...
There were a coupla them threads too. And that was always so much easier:
A six, A 12, a T, a regular Elite, center hole, different bowls, different electronics,
different paint, Nice one to Play out, Beater to Play out,
the First one you got, the Last one you got,
they don't make them anymore, it was a steal, it was a rescue,
gonna leave it to the kids, gonna give it to a beginner, etc.
And if all else fails... It Spoke To Me! :eek: :p |
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Location: Upper Left USA | How about a Semi-Hollow Deacon or a super dreadnaught Elite? |
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Location: Angoulême - France | This one for me :
http://www.ovationtribute.com/Adamas_Slotheads/Other_Slotheads/Adam... |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | FD14 #34 (with the gloss neck)
Bernie |
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Location: Michigan | ute |
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Location: Utah | Of the ones I own, the 2080. Great sound unplugged, great sound plugged in. Nice neck but not perfect.
The Patriot hits the appearance factor but does not have electronics. Perhaps with an OpPro Studio installed it would get the nod. One outstanding sounding acoustic guitar!
If ordering a custom, it would be an Adamas cutaway deep contour, wide neck, soft v carve neck profile, suspension ring, reverse red burst textured finish, VIP preamp, walnut fretboard, and a modified version of the 2080 swoosh (no aluminum showing), gold 18:1 ratio locking tuners. |
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Location: Tennessee | I refuse to answer this question for fear SOMEone might find this site and use my answer against me. For the record ... there is no such situation as proposed in the premise. You need lots of guitars and can never be satisfied with just one. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Yes, absolutely. The premise is absurd on the face of it. One guitar - sheesh, as if... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | How do you make God laugh???
Make HIM choose just one guitar........... |
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Location: CA | Gretsch White Falcon.
If I could only have one... |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Beal:
How do you make God laugh???
Make HIM choose just one guitar........... Careful, he may decide He wants your old Martin. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My 1187 SSB cutaway custom |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
My 1187 SSB cutaway custom Does that have a wide neck? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by dark bar:
Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
My 1187 SSB cutaway custom Does that have a wide neck? |
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| Hands down a Balladeer Standard.
It does everything well. |
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Location: GA USA | My 1868 Elite is the one guitar that I would replace asap. It's not tops on anyone else's list, but it just fits me like no other guitar I've had. |
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Location: San Francisco, CA | Acoustic: My '98 Collings D-1
Electric: My '07 Gibson ES-335 |
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Location: Denver | Mt PSF-94 Santa Fe hands down. As much as I love my 1617 the Tak can do everything I ask and more. It's my favorite when recording and performing...
www.cdbaby.com/dansauer |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Welcome, Judge. Where are you located? Any relativity to your login name? Shoot me a PM. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | If you had just one guitar, what would it be? ...
Mine (: |
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Location: Flahdaw | If I only had one guitar, then that would mean I could only AFFORD one guitar, and I would be happy with it whether it was a Martin, an Esteban, or a custom painted OMA special!!! |
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if you had just one guitar what would it be?