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Joined: August 2004 Posts: 604
Location: Tampa, FL | While it's not a Custom Legend, It is, none the less, major Abalone
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan | Wow!!!
However....Here is a fine example of a poor sales presentation. More detailed photos and a better word description would pay off in a higher sale price. Wether you like abalone or not, this guitar is special. It needs to be presented with a little more excitement.
I can't tell if something is spelled out in letters on the fretboard or not. It would be hell to buy that guitar only to find that it says "Bubba". |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 1071
Location: Carle Place, NY | Fugly! :confused:
Way overdone. |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13987
Location: Upper Left USA | Recently read on a T-shirt back:
"Beauty is in the eye of the Beerholder!" |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 4619
Location: SoCal | also not my political or lifestyle statement
guess it would cover finish cracks... |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13987
Location: Upper Left USA | Thank you Tony "fly fast, aim straight, return for another mission" Calman!
As one who occasionally attempts inlays and remains jealous of those that can find the time to work this art I have to add my opinion.
If you do this much work on something it belong on your own wall. Fleabay will never appreciate it. I hope some "Uncle Joe" that plays three songs for the Grandkid's picks it up and loves it! |
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Joined: August 2004 Posts: 604
Location: Tampa, FL | As a matter of curiosity, does that amount of abalone, strewn about the tone wood top, detract from the natural goodness of a guitar? |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 4619
Location: SoCal | got to believe it would detract from the top's natural vibration. |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13987
Location: Upper Left USA | How is abalone and resin as a "tonewood" is the question.
My guess is they are right in there with Rock Maple and Ebony with out the curing. |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 4413
| That is REALLY horrible. Doing that to a guitar ought to be illegal. |
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Joined: December 2004 Posts: 4394
Location: East Tennessee | Might be beautiful to some. I prefer the beauty of natural wood or Sunburst finish. Maybe a touch of abalone.
Look at the location; French Settlement LA, maybe it's a Cajun thing. :D |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 4413
| If he was Cajun, it would be crayfish shell..... |
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Joined: August 2002 Posts: 8307
Location: Tennessee | I re-read the text as I at first just looked at the camera phone photo.
... has a squirl,racoom,butterfly,mother bird and two chicks,center marijana leaf ... Head has aligator with rinestone teeth ... {I left all of the spelling unchanged.}
Sounds perfect for playing at open mike at the Roadkill Cafe. Song should be "Long Haired Country Boy" by Charlie Daniels. |
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan | That is REALLY horrible. Doing that to a guitar ought to be illegal.
But if someone doesn't go to far then we will never know how far to far is!!!! |
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Joined: February 2002 Posts: 1817
Location: Minden, Nebraska | Perhaps the centrality of the marijuana leaf inlay explains it all. |
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Joined: July 2005 Posts: 83
Location: Norman, OK | I think we need to get this guy in touch with the the cat with the frankenbass in the UK and pay them both a fiver and watch the chainsaws fly. I'll chip in....
Mike "Rocky Racoom" O |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 2791
Location: Atlanta, GA. | Crawfish don't have that sparkle...
My guess is oyster shells! |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 4413
| I bow to your superior local knowledge. |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840
Location: closely held secret | Judging by the description I would assume rhinestones play a large part in it - perhaps Glen should be notified? |
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Joined: January 2003 Posts: 1498
Location: San Bernardino, California | http://stores.ebay.com/Antoniotsais-Guitar-Mandolin-Arts_W0QQssPage... |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 1374
| Looks like a N.O.R.M.L. convention in Las Vegas...
God Bless,
Glenn |
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