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Location: Winston-Salem, NC | Which models of Elite 12 string had a cutaway? Are there any deep bowl Elite 12 strings? |
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| The 1858 is a SSB cutaway. I believe the only deep bowl Elite 12-ers (both full body) were the 1758, and my favorite, my 1538:
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Location: Right now? | WOW, G8r, that is one GORGEOUS guitar!
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | G8r, I want that elite to go with my 1537. What a pair they'd make! |
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| Originally posted by Patch:
G8r, I want that elite to go with my 1537. What a pair they'd make! Sorry, Patch. She's already married to my 1537.
Note: I've since replaced the tuner buttons on the 1538 with rosewood buttons from Temp, to match the 1537.
Thanks, Willa! |
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Location: SoCal | How does a guy who looks like a Columbian drug load afford so many great guitars?
Oh wait, I think I just answered my own question... |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | The 1758 is also a deep bowl...
This gets me thinking what the difference between the 1758 and 1538? Is one considered to be "better" (i.e. better woods/better sounding) than the other. I know, I know, "better" is subjective but you know what I mean! HOPEFULLY. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "This gets me thinking what the difference between the 1758 and 1538?"
:confused: 220!
I believe that the 1538 has that floating fretboard end like the 1537...
Don't know what the 1758 has. |
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| Originally posted by dweezil:
This gets me thinking what the difference between the 1758 and 1538? Is one considered to be "better" (i.e. better woods/better sounding) than the other. I know, I know, "better" is subjective but you know what I mean! HOPEFULLY. Minor differences: higher-graded or better tap-tone top (especially the earliest ones), floating fretboard end, 5-piece wood binding.
Major difference: lots of mojo poured into the 1537/1538
By mojo I mean intangibles, like the skill of the specific people who worked on these; their feeling of being part of something "special" in putting out a unique guitar (it was after all the first widely distributed wood-top with such a radical departure from the traditional soundhole); their desire to make these as close to a wood-top Adamas as possible (remind me to ask Beal if there were separate, competing teams building the Adamas and the early Elites); maybe a little extra "smoke" during break times (remember the era); etc. |
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| Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
How does a guy who looks like a Columbian drug load afford so many great guitars?
Oh wait, I think I just answered my own question... Now, Paul, you know I'd have to kill you if I told you...
Given that I'm a researcher in pharmacology, you're not that far off. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
How does a guy who looks like a Columbian drug load afford so many great guitars?
Oh wait, I think I just answered my own question... Lol!
"Drug load?"
I'm just imagining the conversation...
-- Who's that G8r guy?
-- Ahhh, you know him...he's the one who looks like a kilo o'cocaine!
(I know, I know...just a typo...but it's usually MY typoes that come out funny!) |
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Location: Winston-Salem, NC | So...there aren't too many Elite 12'ers with a cutaway, huh? |
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| Very, very few people ever have need of a cutaway on a 12-string. Kinda like teats on a nun. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by AlanM:
"Drug load?" <undercover photo by the DEA, CIA, FBI, NSA, SPCA, PITA and the OFC...
But losing the 'stash has done wonders fer his git playin'!  |
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Location: Tennessee | I have a cutaway 12. And ever since I laid eyes on Sally Field, I have this thing for nuns, too. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Now we need to get down to the Black and White of the issue (or the -5 and -6 of the issue):
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | But, here is a cutaway Elite 12: my former 1985C 12 2985:
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Location: east coast usa | mike that white 12 is gorgeous... WOW very nice |
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Location: east coast usa | Has anyone ever came across a KOA top elite 12? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by geneo:
mike that white 12 is gorgeous... WOW very nice Geno, got a nice one in the for sale section with your name on it. |
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Location: east coast usa | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Originally posted by geneo:
mike that white 12 is gorgeous... WOW very nice Geno, got a nice one in the for sale section with your name on it. |
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Elite 12 Strings?