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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | nice freaking axe |
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Location: SoCal | Yeah, but I'd prefer this one
http://ovationguitars.com/index.cfm?fa=news&art=461 |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Oh yeah,
Well, ok. |
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Location: Tennessee | Now this is really, really cool ...
http://ovationguitars.com/index.cfm?fa=news&art=458 |
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Location: NJ | I've seen that sycamore guitar,
and it is VERRRRY Nice!!!! |
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Location: Evansville,IN | The sycamore guitar gets my vote. Definitely one of a kind. :) |
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Location: Corvallis, OR | Am I missing something again ?
The Folklore featured in Jeff. W's post, is advertised with a 1 3/4 nut,while the nylon equivalent in Moody's post is pictured with the standard 1 7/8 nut. (I mean standard for this type of guitar.) |
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Location: SoCal | Actually, what's cool about the Classic LX is that the nut width is not standard. Most 12 fret to the body nylon strings have a 2 inch nut. With a 1 7/8 inch nut, it's like the Country Artist (now just known as the Artist LX), but with the bridge moved back towards the center of the lower bout. With that move, and all the LX appointments (lighter bowl and X bracing), that guitar has got to sound better acoustically than the Artist (Country Artist). And for people like me, who rarely go above the 12th fret (hey, I've got the 87 and the electrics for that), it's the perfect all around nylon string. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Folklore (steel string) = 1-3/4
Classical and Artist (nylon) = 1-7/8 |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You sure on that Dave? I always thought that the folklore was 1 7/8, same as the 12 string. I could be wrong. Somebody go measure theirs. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | my '93 folklore 6774 has 1 7/8 inch nut... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | "OLD" folklore (and josh) were 1-7/8. Folklore LX is 1-3/4. At least according to O website. But heck, we all know the manufacturing tolerence is +/- 1/4 inch, right! Hey, if Al Gore had invented the internet 20 years earlier think how much fun we could have had checking up on the factory specs. Dave |
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Location: Paris/France | It's so hard for me to understand your units system!!!
Why don't you use the metric system like everybody??? :D :D ;)
According the first J.White brochure (1967), the fingerboard is 2 inches wide at the nut just like the original Classic.
On another brochure (1968), the fingerboard at the nut is 1-7/8.
Maybe there's a mistake in the first brochure???
J :) |
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Location: south east Michigan | We'll have to send Jerome a tape measure. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Blame it on the brits. The only unit they got correct was "pint", but it's not really a pint, is it. And a pound note doesn't really weigh a pound. And how many stones do I weigh?
Just remember the story of the three bears. Papa bear pick up the older Classical with the 2" nut and says "this neck is tooooo wide". Baby bear picks up an 05 Collector with god knows what nutwidth and says "this neck is toooo skinny". But Mama bear (and we all LOVE the Mama bear, isn't that right?) picks up an FD14 with a 1-3/4 nut and says "this neck is just perfect". But then the Big Bad Martin wolf crashes through the door, slits the bears throats, dismembers them and puts the body parts into the three tupperware containers and takes them back to the woods for dinner. Dave |
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Location: NJ | I suspect that Witko's recently dropped Acid and went to see "GrizzlyMan" . . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Richard Thompson did the music for that film... |
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Location: NJ | Thank you, Roger Ebert . . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Actually, with this loving Mama Bear comment, I'm wondering if Witko isn't into the beastiality thing.... too many trips to the Netherlands.... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Actually, I think in the Netherlands beastiality is against the law. But unlike in the US, anal intercourse, prostitution and recreational drug use is not. Or, so I'm told. Dave
PS - Wow, what a thread. From neck width to childrens fairy tales to anal intercourse. We may have finally hit the bottom. |
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Location: closely held secret | I hope that pun wasn't intended... :eek: |
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Location: NJ | ". . to anal intercourse. We may have finally hit the bottom. . ."
No.
. . but obviously YOU have . . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | :D Oh that Witko ;) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I knew we would get it in the end. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Hey...watch that "we" thing pal. |
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Location: Paris/France | Your units system is hard to understand but it's easy compared with some of Dave's posts... :D :D
When it's to hard for me, i'm using a translation software. This time, the software has refused to make the translation of dave's post!!
Bears dismembers, anal intercourse, tupperware containers etc... You really have strange tales in USA!!! :eek:
It's good for my english to know these new words but it will not easy to use them in a conversation... ;)
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Location: NJ | You merely have to alter the types of establishments that you frequent . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Nut width from 2 inches down to 1-11/16 inches
.........2"= l---------------------------------l
..1- 7/8"= l-------------------------------l
..1- 3/4"= l-----------------------------l
1-11/16"= l----------------------------l |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The bad puns reminded me of the worst one I saw when I first moved here. As I was walking to the parking garage another lawyer pointed to a sign on the door that said "Entrance in Rear" and said that they ought to take that sign down. Thinking that they had moved the entrance or something, I asked him why. He said, "because it's a gay bar." I assume it was an intentional pun. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | (So much to say...but gotta keep it in check...just keep moving...don't even...)
Ok, guys. Love y'all like brothers but gotta go! |
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Folklore, I'll say it again...