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Location: Paris/France | You probably remember Rémy\'s Adamas Slothead #519 from 1978.
Rémy is a Doctor for humans but also for guitars (we call him "The Doc") and sometimes I'm sure that he steal the drugs of his patients... :D :D :D
Some month ago, we've had a discussion together and he told me that he wanted to redone the headstock of his slothead.
I thought he was joking but he wasn't... :eek:
Here's the final result and I have to admit that he has done a great job and that his guitar looks wonderful now (look at the pics below)!!
And you can download a picture in high rez HERE!!!
J :)
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Location: Scotland | Hey, nice tuner buttons!
Remy's headstock re-model looks great. I always thought that's they way they should have been done in the first place. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I agree with Paul....The re-model looks great!
.....(In my opinion,of course) I think I would have rounded the shoulders as bit more.
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Location: Orlando, FL | Great job Doc! You are braver than I am to even attempt this. But it came out great! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Nice job !!!
Yes those tuner buttons look good, but with all due respect I'm a little partial to these ...
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Location: Jet City | That looks 1000x better IMO! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Dave, when you put on the open gear tuners, did the base plate cover the offset holes left from the schallers or did you have to fill them? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Dave, when you put on the open gear tuners, did the base plate cover the offset holes left from the schallers or did you have to fill them? It wasn't a retrofit. I had it built that way at the factory with a custom cut neck/headstock. It's tricky to retrofit on slotheads because the inner post hole has to match the Waverly shaft which is thinner than the standard Schaller drilling. On flat headstocks you can use an adapter coller, but on slotheads to do it right you really need to plug the inner holes and redrill. Or do as I did and have your dealer custom order it that way.
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Good Craftsmanship !!
..but I like the " before " better , it added contrast , and ofcourse , the tuning -buttons should have been in gold.
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | BIG improvement!
It's amazing what he can do with just a drill press and a belt sander. :) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Slot heads look so good and are such a pain in the ass to change strings........ |
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Location: Texas | looks like "Kramer" to me, ;)
I prefer the original design.
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actually, I prefer the Adamas II look,
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Location: ranson,wva | wow!!! thats how they shud'a came from teh factory...love it...beautiful work....nice job |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I agree with the majority. Beautiful finish work. |
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Location: Paris/France | Rémy asked me to post that picture (especially for Dave).
He will soon tell us what he has done with his Slotheads!! ;)
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Location: Angoulême - France | Thanks Jérôme (I don't know yet how to post a picture...)
That last picture was a reply to Dave and Trader Jim for the same Waverly tuners I did put on my custom UT in replacement of the original Schaller's, I just had to drill from 6 mm to 6,3 mm the internal hole and to put a little cylindrical Schaller piece in the external hole 10 mm 6,3 mm for the tuner (we can see it on the picture) : now it works really fine and much more better than original Schaller's tuners.
For my old Marcel's 1689-7 slothead, it's also interesting to see that it's a walnut wood carved scroll head and not a foam one as we could think during that period (1978), I really love it now and it looks like I was thinking about it in my dreams. Thanks Paul for those beautiful tuner buttons. One word more : this guitar is acoustically fabulous.
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Location: Orlando, FL | Nice job Remy. If I tried anything like that, I'd have an Adamas with a Steinberger headstock... |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Wow, it looks okay but no way would I ever have changed anything on a guitar like that unless it was something that really needed to be done...no way.
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Location: Angoulême - France | I know for a long time I'm a little bit crazy to do such things on O's guitars, but be sure I really love those guitars, love to play, ear and look it, everything I do is really done with my heart and I can't explain it differently...
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Nice craftsmanship Remy. You've done a good job.
I still think it would've looked better if you'd just hacksawed the whole cauliflower off. I hate them. |
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Look what he's done to his head...