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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Is anybody in there to create the Calendars for us in the future?
I'll miss it badly!!!
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | Patch all done?? |
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Location: Yokohama, Japan | nerdydave - 2020-10-17 1:22 PM
Patch all done??
Hey nerdydave, I think Patch announced his retirement from OFC Calendar production last year. Know what you mean about missing the calendar, Bernie! I still have all my previous years calendars and lust over all of your Os!
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Yes, I've retired and will miss it as well. It's gotten to the point where I have to pick up so much extra work anymore, that I truly just ran out of time for a project this size. And it doesn't help that I have a conscience that can't live with just throwing something together. Every member here deserves better than that. Even if I had planned on doing the calendars this year, having Covid force all of my courses online (Teaching is my part-time gig.) would have killed any aspirations I had anyway. You wouldn't believe how much additional work is required to convert all of my in-class materials and build modules to any reasonable standard! And it's not like I had loads of warning or support from the colleges to do it. Still, I wish I could keep the calendar project going. It was something I quite enjoyed. Hopefully someone in the future can pick up the torch though. If they do, I'll be on the buyers' list for certain. In the meantime, I hope you are all staying safe and healthy! What a crazy year! |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | Always good to have a conscience! |
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Location: Indiana | Pretty big shoes to fill.
Thanks again, Patch. |
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | I had offered to pick up the calendar duties from Patch, but then, like him, life got in the way.
I am still willing to take up the yoke, but it's not going to happen for this year's calendar. |
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Location: SoCal | From all I heard, Patch did a great job with the calendars. But when Brad passed away, I just kinda felt like the time of calendars (that I was a part of) had come and gone. Still feel that way..... |
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Location: NJ | I have absolutely no art skills and barely any computer skills. Patch thank you for so much that you did. it was awesome!!
if someone picks up the ball again that would be great ! |
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Location: When?? | @Dan - >>>I am still willing to take up the yoke<<<
Yay Dan! Coming from your shop it's bound to be a great product, and a worthy torch passing from Patch's awesome work.
(but I bet you still cringed a little when you hit the submit button on that one) |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | But he did say not this year. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | I miss them as well. Was just clearing a shelf in the spare room last week and came across a stack of them from 2006-2014. |
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | Love O Fair - 2020-10-22 4:06 PM
@Dan - >>>I am still willing to take up the yoke<<<
Yay Dan! Coming from your shop it's bound to be a great product, and a worthy torch passing from Patch's awesome work.
(but I bet you still cringed a little when you hit the submit button on that one)
I cringe a little every time I volunteer for something. |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | So I have to make my own calendar for 2021....., but Dan, for 2022, if you need pictures, I have a lot.... LOL
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Location: 6 String Ranch | So there will be a next year? I heard it was canceled since this one was never really used. |
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Location: Indiana | Beal - 2020-11-07 4:00 PM So there will be a next year? I heard it was canceled since this one was never really used. I got a ton of s@$t done around the property in2020.
Just looking on the brighter side... Also, put on 30 pounds. Ying... Yang. |
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Location: Colorado | So I may regret this....I may be able to pull this off...maybe not in time for Christmas - but close....it may be a one year commitment.... to keep the fire burning....in the mean time go ahead and say how many you would want - and the country they would be shipped to - and the top price you would want to pay turnkey each with shipping....I don't plan to make a dime, but I am not in a position to lose a crap ton of money either....touring pit orchestra gigs are few and far between....good thing I have a real job. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | I'm in, but I can only take one. $35 is fine with me too. Good on ya to pick up the ball. Looking forward to it! |
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Location: When?? | Heck, Mark, I'll pay $35 just out of curiosity to see what you can come up with on such short notice. Chalk me up for 1. |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Sorry, now I've made my own ones, the printer is just running on the last (3rd) one. But I'm in for next year with 3 ones....
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Location: Colorado | So I will set a deadline of Sunday the 15th to tell me how many you would be interested in...from there I will make a decision. |
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Location: Colorado | Any recommendations on file hosting service/dropbox type service I can set up to have people send large files of hi res photos to? |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | I think I set up a Google drop box last time. It got the job done, but there might be better ones out there.
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Location: Muenster/Germany | I´m in for 1. Germany. |
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Location: Muenster/Germany | I will talk to a friend of mine who´s in the printer´s business, maybe we can make a calendar in the future. He has great computer ressources and professional printers and binding tools. But not this year. |
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Location: Colorado | Sorry to say for only about an interest of 10ish, I will not be producing a calendar. Sorry folks, anyone? Bueller?
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Location: Texas | Fair enough.
Thanks for trying. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | I hate to admit it, but the numbers dropped each year, although that's not the reason I had to back out. The project was always a labor of love for our brands, both Ovation and the OFC. But they take considerable time to put together, or least put together well, and time is something I run short of anymore. In an ideal world, I started asking for photos in early summer, although life can banjax even that kind of lead time very easily. Here's hoping the idea can be resurrected in the future. |
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Location: When?? | @Patch - >>>But they take considerable time to put together, or least put together well<<<
Problem is, Patch, you've been TOO good. Heck, anyone can throw together a Kinko-Fed-Ex calendar, but it would be awfully disheartening to take the shame of having the quality go into the dumper compared to yours. Your painstaking workmanship clearly showed in the product, and would definitely be tough act to follow. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Thanks LOF. Like I said, it was fun, and as cliched as it sounds, it was also a bit of a labor of love, or at least loyalty. I mentioned it in detail the first time Fender shut things down: No other company would have indulged the whims of a nobody social worker like me the way John and Kim , and by extension Ovation, did. There is no way I could have assembled a collection of guitars as I now possess without them. I felt liked I owed them a little bit, and some of that dedication worked its way into the calendars. It's gonna be an honest and strange distraction not seeing one on the wall come January. |
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Location: Colorado | patch and love....yep....The standard is high - and rightfully so...I could take 2 hours, send it off to the web, and we would have something that resembles the insurance agent freebie - I want to use a real printer - carefully edit each page... and take the time to do the artwork correctly....Let's do this....I will soon set up a drop box to send photos to and start the process....when we get a dozen or so pages worth - I will find a printer a cut above Shutterfly and Kinkos...then I will send them off to print....since it is custom, the months and years won't matter....Maybe in a month or so I might even have a contact name at GEWA....I don't plan to even break even...just do it right.
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Calendars for the next years?