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Location: Paris/France | Hello,
I'm glad to share with you THESE PICTURES of one of the first Adamas Custom Shop arrived in France.
This outstanding Adamas was ordered from one of the best O's dealer in USA... ;) and was custom made for my friend Tom under his own specifications.
I've had the pleasure to play it at the first "EurOFC" last weekend at Karl's house (pics will follow ASAP) and it's a wonderful looking and sounding guitar!!
Congrats Tom !!!
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| Hey guy's no carving needed on one of these! Way to go.
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Location: Australia | Wow, I've never seen one quite like it.
What an unusual colour. Quite beautiful. I kinda miss the sparkles though.
Jerome, do you know if your friend supplied the factory with a colour sample? I didn't know you could go that custom.
The slotheads are really special guitars. I'm so glad I bit the bullet and got my #47RI. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | stunning! I remember seeing the color samples for this at the tour. Came out beautifully! Congrats, Tom! |
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Location: SoCal | It's beautiful. And the tuners are all lined up too! Now all that needs to be done is to line up parrallel all the tuner buttons and it should sound great! |
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Location: Paris/France | Jerome, do you know if your friend supplied the factory with a colour sample? I didn't know you could go that custom It's 3.53 AM in France and I can't sleep but Tom is surely sleeping... :D
I'm sure he will be glad to tell us more about his Custom Order tomorrow!!
J :) |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Beautiful guitar!! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | THAT GUITAR IS STUNNING !!!
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Location: NJ | ahh!! . . chocolat!!!!
VeryNice! |
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Location: Thailand | What A Great Presentation! Dear Jérôme. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Very nice Jerome; congrats Tom!
Blessings... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Gorgeous, Tom. Well done. Definitely one of the nicest top colors I've seen. |
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Location: NJ | When we were on the Factory Tour, Darren had given Tom a graphite top with three different swatches of brown painted on it to choose from.
This was the shade that I liked, too.
GoodChoice, Tom!! |
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Location: France | Originally posted by richardd:
Jerome, do you know if your friend supplied the factory with a colour sample? I didn't know you could go that custom.
I used photoshop to design my dream guitar and send the picture to the factory via Al. As it is very difficult to copy a picture, Daren prepared a few color samples for the factory tour. I could choose the shade that I like more and talk about it with Daren to adapt a few things.
I'm VERY happy with the result. I love the color, to me it looks even better in real than in pictures. It sounds just like an OFC, wonderful.
Thanks,
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Location: Munich, Germany | I'm not getting tired of saying this:
This is the most beautiful Adamas I have ever seen!
And Tom is right. It looks even more beautiful in person.
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Congrats Tom, very nice choice !
I hope to see you and your guitar soon.
AND now you have to update your signature ;) ;) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I saw that one in the EurOFC Gathering photos before I read this and saw it here...
I said "Look at that! I want That!"
Adamas-Envy! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | That neck must be to die for... |
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Location: SoCal | I was just thinking of the number of slotheads built... 87 #47's, 12 OFC slots, and Tom's brown one. It must be #100 (based on these numbers, mines #90). A pretty special guitar..... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I was just thinking of the number of slotheads built... ... with a box of tissues close at hand. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | I still wonder, if they counted the OFC's to the total amount of Slotheads. If you look at Jerome's page - the last number before vision's #81 is #58. Where are the missing ones? Okay, one of the "famous 69" is at Bro Bobby's, but the others?
69 (Bobby's way to think) + 12 = 81
By the way, another very beautiful brown Adamas just arrived at its new home in germany. Not a slothead, but in every way a wonderful guitar! Thanks again (to whom it may concern!)
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Location: SoCal | I don't think so. I believe that all of the 47's were built before they started in on the OFC slots. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I don't think the OFC guitars were counted. I had heard of the existence of numbers 74 and 75 but I don't know now where they are. 71 and 76 are registered on my website. I also recall hearing someplace that one of the delays in getting the OFC guitars done was that the factory had to finish the 47RI guitars first (or maybe this was in a dream).
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Vision's 47 RI #87 will be coming here soon and I am told that is the final 47 RI...but you are right Kurt, they're are a lot of "missing" ones as of recent accounting...maybe Brother Bobby has them in a back room...lol
I think that Musicians friend has at least one in stock (at least thats what i read...)...
As for whether or not they were all made in advance of the OFC's, I have no idea...I have heard conflicting reports... |
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Location: Germany | I agree with all what has been said about Tom's brown slothead. To me it's the most beautiful Adamas color ever made. Well done boy!
Talking about numbers I always wonder if the 47RIs had also a standard Adamas serial # (like 22xxx). Such a number doesn't show up neither on the labels nor on the back of the headstock. So did they produce them outside of the standard ascending order?
That differs from the OFC guitars and Tom's brown one. They have the standard serial # on the back of the headstock.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That's a very good question. Do you recall if it said anything about a serial number on the warranty reg. card? Dave |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | I recall talking with someone about one in the mid-70's, so I knew of at least 75 or 76 #47's made - didn't realize until Leslie got hers that they went into the 80's.
BTW, gorgeous guitar, Tom - enjoy! |
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Location: Germany | Hm, the registration card of my 1187 says "Serial No 000054". Hey Cliff, I have the registration card of your guitar. After 30 years you can register it now. You should do that, you know it's important for the limited lifetime warranty. Good things come to those who wait. ;)
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