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Location: SoCal | The U681T 6-str now has a 12-string version. Only SIX, probably won't last 48 hours. Plenty of positive comments about the 6-str Ute. This has to be a "boomer".
Don't wait, contact Al or I may buy what hasn't been sold. |
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Location: SoCal | Great. Can I borrow yours for a few months just for a test drive? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Correction, there's not 6 available! One is already in transit to AZ. Not sure how many are left, but Tony is right these will not last long. Dave |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I have got to hear this guitar. |
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Location: PDX | I have a hard enough time with six strings for crying out loud. What the heck am i going to do with twelve??
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Location: SoCal | Dave is right...was six available. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Great. Can I borrow yours for a few months just for a test drive? Paul, You could never warm-up to the 6-string version... what makes you think you'd like the 12? |
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Location: SoCal | Only way to know is to try..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I don't know. As great as the U681 is and as wonderful as the 12 string version probably sounds, I just like to be able to get up higher on the neck (like those classic Supertramp and Yes tunes).
For me, a 12 needs to either have 14 frets to the body or be a 12 fret cutaway (like my Baxendale).
I am sure after I hear and play one of these babies, I will regret these remarks and wish I had grabbed one but that's how I feel without taking one for a spin. |
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Location: SoCal | Fair enough Paul... maybe Al can ship Tony's down here with mine, I'll pick out the one I like, and you can hold on to Tony's as long as you want.
When you are done, you can pass it over to Fred and when he's done... |
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Location: SoCal | I knew we could find a way to work this out..... |
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Location: SoCal | I have a hard enough time with six strings for crying out loud. What the heck am i going to do with twelve??
alternate?? |
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Location: SoCal | For me, a 12 needs to either have 14 frets to the body... Everyone has different playing styles (and a cutaway isn't a bad idea such as my non-slothead 6759CL) but the shiny bowl, Pacemaker, the GC, and the 1658 Custom Legend are 12-fret, non-cutaway slotheads that are great playing 12's. Combining the innovation of the slothead UTE and creating a 12-string, may even excel over my Adamas I and II.
And, when was the last time you saw a slothead textured top Adamas for sale...would have to have been the couple made as original or a custom job. If you found one, you could buy a new car for what the guitar would cost.
You would not only have the only one on the block to have one, maybe the only one within one day's driving distance. |
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Location: SoCal | I've got 2 acoustic 12's and a Preacher Deluxe 12. The acoustics are an Adamas I and a recently rebuilt GC 12 string. There's not a lot on a 6 that I can't play on a 12 (hey, when you're only talking 3 chords.....). If I had to pick pure acoustic sound, the Adamas I ("Big Blue") would win hands down. But the GC 12 has a great sound to it and I love the neck.
Flavors of ice cream and I love them all. They all have their time and place..... |
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Location: NJ | no my usb is not fix
it is 17 degrees outside
pics taken indoor transferred to one computer burned to a cd resized for the stupid gallery and then posted.
wow that was an hour out of my life 
and a tease
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | That looks like a carved headstock to me |
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Location: big island | how's the weight balance, al? can you also describe the sound? |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Is that the back of the OFC Guitar? |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Phil Wong:
Is that the back of the OFC Guitar? gotta be, huh? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Looks like 1758 or a Pacemaker on steroids. :cool: :cool:
Due to the cold weather up north ship them thru Tennessee.
Blues and I will ship them on when it gets warmer. Like about July.......... 2010. :D |
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Location: SoCal | I'm starting to drool looking at that pic..... |
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Location: ranson,wva | the back shot looks like a #47 headstock to me... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That U681-12 looks AMAZING. Mr. UPS says he'll be visiting me on Friday. One guitar, a few pizza boxes, and other assorted junk. I can't wait. Dave |
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Location: big island | does the fraction on the headstock of the six-stringer, 1/12, mean that this guitar is #1 of 12 made? |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Originally posted by Lanaki:
does the fraction on the headstock of the six-stringer, 1/12, mean that this guitar is #1 of 12 made? How many OFC guitars did you expect to be built? :) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | The Teaser is a carved Slothead.
Can you say Oh-h-h-h-h-h E-f-f-f-n S-e-e-e-e! |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Koenig Kurt:
Originally posted by Lanaki:
does the fraction on the headstock of the six-stringer, 1/12, mean that this guitar is #1 of 12 made? How many OFC guitars did you expect to be built? :)
they are complimentary from the company right? ;) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Lanaki:
does the fraction on the headstock of the six-stringer, 1/12, mean that this guitar is #1 of 12 made? I think the tease is that this is really a 1/12 scale model of a slothead.
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Al - I'll make you a trade - I'll take of all of your computer problems for one of the above mentioned guitars. Hell.. I'll even build you a new one.
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Location: NJ | believe me you do NOT want the problems I have with computers for any price or any guitar |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Oh I think that some amount of computer pain is worth it ... |
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Location: south east Michigan | That 12 string UTE has to be a Monster Cannon.
I hope someone has one at the tour. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Chances of one being at the tour are significantly less than 6 in 5300.
Actually less than that because I know that two of them are sold to members that don't normally attend the tour (although they could surprise us). Better idea Brad is to look for a cheap NWA fare to Phoenix. You need some sunshine and we'd have fun. Bring your cheat sheets. Think about it, I'm serious!
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Location: SoCal | Brad, if you fly out to Phoenix, I'll drive out from L.A. We'll have a mini OFC gathering...... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Better yet, Brad, fly out to Phoenix, steal it from Dave and bring it to the Tour.
Really...who'd know? |
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Location: SoCal | Can you imagine what the Ute 12 would sound like tuned down to a C or B? That puppy should rumble.... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Dave
Paul...
Thanks.
And Wease.... now that you said it, I can't do it!!!. Way to go pal.
I bet you told everyone the ending of the Sixth Sense, too!! |
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Location: Munich, Germany | I play my six string Ute tuned down to C - and this guitar rumbles without a bit of a buzz.
The 12-string tuned down has to sound wonderful! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | As you probably know by now, no one has ever accused me of being too bright, Brad.
Ahh, do it anyway. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Can you imagine what the Ute 12 would sound like tuned down to a C or B? That puppy should rumble.... Seismic. |
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Location: NJ | You'd need pretty heavy strings t'do that . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ... not in LA |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Weaser P:
no one has ever accused me of being too bright Has anyone ever accused you of being just bright enough? |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Has anyone ever accused you of being just bright enough? If so, you might qualify for a job in the
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Uh, Tupp, Brad, Moody if you guys get together and play it should be called "The Freddy and the Fishsticks Reunion Tour" or the "Fishsticks Reunion Tour" only because I don't know which one of you guy's were Freddy. :D |
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Location: closely held secret | The walrus was Paul. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Uh, Tupp, Brad, Moody if you guys get together.. then we would be left without the real musicians of the group.
Without Temp, Kim & Cliff... we got nuttin'. |
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Location: closely held secret | The Milli Vanilli Ukelele band. |
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Location: SoCal | I'll bet that Temp, Kim or Clifford never put on a shoulder holster..... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I'll bet that Temp, Kim or Clifford never put on a shoulder holster..... I'll bet you Cliff has worn a bra, if that counts.
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Location: NJ | ". . I'll bet that . . . Clifford never put on a shoulder holster . ."
Wrong.
(at least that's what she TOLD me I was strapping-on . . . it's all so hazy now . . .) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Back on topic...that ute 12 looks sweet!
Dave....PLEASE DON'T POST about how wonderful it sounds on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I got enough irons in the fire without having to lust after 1 of 6! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Mr. UPS will be here in a few hours. I already told the wife not to plan dinner tonight, I'll be busy.
I don't normally get THIS excited about a guitar delivery, but something about the combination U681 top, 12 strings, slotted headstock, etc. has got me very excited about this one.
Might come down with "food poisoning" around lunch time. Gee boss, that egg roll ain't sitting real well. I think maybe I better go home.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Tell'm your suffrin' from a Uterin' infection.... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Tell'm your suffrin' from a Uterin' infection.... :D :D :D
Jeff, you kill me....who writes your material :cool: |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Dave,
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The Monsters have arrived...