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Location: Paris/France | Hello,
I'm so happy to share with you the first pics of Rémy's U-681-T CUSTOM WIDE NECK .
It's a beautiful instrument and another example of the talent of the guys in New Hartford.
Maybe some people will not like the design (ala Marcel Dadi) but the final result is exactly what Remy was looking for.
I'm sure that Rémy will be glad to tell us more about this guitar.
Enjoy the pics.
J :) |
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Location: big island | that guitar is absolutely gorgeous! i am very impressed. WOWZA! |
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Location: Japan | Love the color, headstock and just about everything, except for the lower epaulet.
Never could get used to looking at the Marcel Dadi guitars.
Am I the only one who doesn't like this epaulet configuration? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Absolutely Beautiful! Fantastic color and very elegant! I am sure it just sings! Congratulations! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Love it.
Absolutly love it.
Great color. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I like the color. Dave |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Very cool. Is the bracing modified to allow for the 8 soundholes in the treble bout? Or is it configured so the bracing doesn't need alteration? I like it. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I had to come back and look again.
If I ever did a custom order myself, this would be very close to what it would be. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | 11 on a scale of 10. Stunning! |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Wow! Beautiful! |
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Location: Germany | Congrats Rémy, it's a marvelous guitar!
Akami, somehow this is a Marcel Dadi signature guitar so it's not the question if someone likes the lower epi or not - it just has to be there.
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| What an exquisite finish! The satin simulates lighty textured Linen. Also, where did Ovation get the semi-jumbo fret wire? Is it stainless? This guitar is a fine example of custom-order instruments. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I definitely love that color. Beautiful guitar Remy! |
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Location: Angoulême - France | Thanks my friend Jerome for this post and thanks everybody for your congrats !
I'm really glad to share with the OFC family that moving dreming plan becoming now this so beautiful Adamas. Hi dreamed about this guitar for several years, I met Marcel in 1989 and played one time with him in Paris in 1991 (an other time in a castle in 1991 and that’s were we made the deal with is early Adamas I bought)...
I was expecting for an acoustic and sober Adamas and decided to do make this UT by the factory one year ago, when I played guitar for a tribute to the legend (and met also my friend Jerome there) ! It's really a great and good job they made : it's the best wide neck 1 7/8 I ever played. The acoustic sound is stunning : clear, strong, well balanced… and musical. The finish is perfect : I really love this guitar.
Many details have been discussed with the factory : color (Pantone 134 C : they sent me graphit table samples !), epaulets, suspended top (none on standard UT), neck carve, width and thickness, neck angle, action, beveled fingerboard, frets semi-jumbo (I just asked for it)…
Darren Wallace and Mark Lammana (and the others) really try to make the best guitar for each guitar they have to realise at the custom shop. To my idea it was not a real custom shop but this guitar (and others like OFC or Custom UT) shows that they are really able to make with you your dream guitar. So : dream and make it !
Thanks to my friends Jerome and Tom for their help, ideas and support !!!
Best regards from Fance !
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Location: CT | Love the color. Pantone 134C you say? I'm off to Home Depot to pick up a can... |
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Location: Angoulême - France | Hi Jeff
I'll take bracing pictures tonight : excellent idea ! To my opinion they just modified the bracing to make it shorty but we'll see that. Thanks for congrats : your wonderful custom acoustic UT inspired me...
Remy |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Akami, you're not the only one. |
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Location: SoCal | I don't like the configuration (looks like a guitar that had a stroke), but like everything else, it's just a different flavor of ice cream. To those in France, it screams "Marcel"! I love every other choice made on the guitar and am pleased for Remy.
If I told you guys what I'm thinking of special ordering, you'd probably think I was nuts.
I mean, more than usual...... |
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Location: NJ | Not crazy about the Bell's Palsy eppauletes either, but it is an interesting colour . . . |
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Location: Angoulême - France | It's funny to see your remarks about this treble epaulet : it looks like a stroke for some of you where it is the best treble epaulet design in my mind ! You guys are probably objectively right, aesthetically and acoustically... and the subjective difference is certainly in my heart : I LOVE IT !!! However, it's really a wonderdul Adamas they made at the factory and I'm glad to share this plan with you.
You're right Paul in France it screams "Marcel" and as said Karl it as just to be there ! |
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Location: SoCal | Remy, there's no right or wrong when it comes to what you love in a guitar. It's a beautiful instrument!
Besides, the treble epaulets look much better when the guitar is horizontal and being played. Heck, all guitars look better when they're being played. |
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Location: NJ | As long as YOU like it . . . that's all that matters . . . |
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Location: Thailand | I love it.
Wonderful!
The lucky owner.
povation |
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Location: New Jersey, USA | So am I correct in assuming from this that you can actually specify any Pantone color you like and they will match it?? Can they do a burst between two specified colors as well?
The Adamas custom shop website is very sparse on details regarding "non-standard" finishes. I want to know what they can and can't do, since I pretty much never see any unique Adamas finishes... |
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Location: Paris/France | I'd like to say that Rémy is not only a guitar collector.
He's also a very good guitar player.
I'm always so proud when he comes at home and takes one of my guitar.
He should visit me pretty soon and I hope that we will be able to record a tune on his "Dadi's Custom" Adamas to hear the sound of this guitar.
For those who want to hear what he's able to do with a guitar in hands, please CLICK HERE!!
I must say that this tune was recorded after some beers (maybe too many beers... :D )
Even if some of you don't like the lower epaulet, let me tell you that the arrival of this guitar is a great event for the very small community of O's fans in France and I really hope to have the rare privilege to play it next weekend!!!
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by rpguitar:
So am I correct in assuming from this that you can actually specify any Pantone color you like and they will match it?? Can they do a burst between two specified colors as well? There are many, many options. I bet they can do pretty much any combo you like and is available to them. I had mine built from the ground up in a configuration that hadn't been done before... |
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Location: Angoulême - France | Jeff is right : you can give them your pantone color choice and they'll make it even with a burst with two specified colors (and they'll send you samples). If you look the specs of this guitar many details (end not only Bell's palsy eppauletes !)are not indicated on the custom shop website : just ask and they'll reply. For example I had like to have the VIP with an acoustic bridge ans under saddle thin line piezo but they couldn't do that with VIP, but everyhting else they could... and now they are able to make a 1 7/8 original slothead neck... 6 monthes ago they couldn't (for example an 1 7/8 OFC guitar : they can !).
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Location: Munich, Germany | Remy,
I heard that about the original slothead as well. But when I tried to order my "OFC" with a 1 7/8 neck about six weeks ago they said they could not do it.
And, by the way, congrats to a beautiful guitar!
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Location: Angoulême - France | Really sorry for you Kurt, I thought they could do it since they opened their custom shop to Japon some weeks ago... but in fact not so... probably in the future ? However the wide neck they made on that UT is really great !
Jeff I took a bracing picture but I don't find where and how to post it...??? !
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Great, Remy. To post the pic, go to the "Member's Access" link above and follow it to the "Gallery" and follow the directions from there...
Or just have Jerome post them. You can also email them to me through the OFC and I will post them. |
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Location: Paris/France | The page is now UPDATED with a new pic of the bass epaulet and another one of the bracing.
J :) |
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Location: Angoulême - France | Thanks Jerome : the bass epaulet picture is so wonderful !
Jeff : what do you think about bracing compared to your UT with usual treble epaulet ? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Definitely different Rémy. The bracing on your guitar is tapered more toward the neck on the treble bout.
I'm very interested to hear the sound of this guitar. The soundhole location and different bracing must give a different tone than the traditional designs... |
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Location: Angoulême - France | It's probably not very objective but... it sounds great to my ears ! We'll try in a few days with Jerome to record it, just a little bit busy for the moment... |
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Location: south east Michigan | I think we got sidetracked on the placement of the eppelett. What is really raises the eyebrows is the color. And why? Because it's very "natural"... almost spruce-like. Do you think it would be a good idea if Darren & the boys came up with something that made a textured top look even more like spruce? Or that that be to fake looking? |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Or that that be to fake looking? I need a translation please. Babelfish couldn't make any sense out of it. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Awww. You know what I mean.
If ya got an answer or comment, please proceed. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | It's Brad speak.....undecipherable! |
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Location: closely held secret | I think those guys could meet just about any expectation you had. I don't know about trying for a spruce-looking top... seems like it would look fake, but you never know till you try it and see - might look spectacular! |
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Location: Angoulême - France | Brad is right ! My idea was to find a color that looks like a natural spruce colored graphit table ! At the beginning the factory tried to convince me to choose a standard burst color but I didn't want, so they asked to give them a Pantone code color, I didn't know what it was but I looked for it and found this 134C... in my mind looking like a natural vintage spruce color ! Then they sent me samples and it was OK. For the end of the story : if they could have make a spruce-looking top with wood veins I'd do it ! |
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Location: NJ | It COULD done! (on a flatbed printer) . . . |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Here: now, start the drool... Pantone Color Chart |
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Location: south east Michigan | My... our horizon of options certainly has expanded, eh? |
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Location: New Jersey, USA | Bet they wouldn't do MY option: A PAF style humbucker in the neck position!! I guess it could be done aftermarket, but at the risk of butchery... |
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A Wonderful Adamas Custom Order !!!