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You can even print it out and hold a coloring contest! Where's that mauve crayola... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Breath Mint? |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Where's that mauve crayola?....I know i have one of those around here somewhere! I mean with 2 kids I should have every color under the sun. :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | ...or every color under the couch! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | check the washer |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ...and Miles, can you say, pedicure? |
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Location: Midland, MI | That is an absolutely stunning display of talent. On the part of the artist, not Alpep and Miles. ;) |
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Location: New Orleans | Indeed! Whomever sketched that cartoon NAILED it. The features are alarmingly realistic! It's hilarious. :D |
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Location: Georgia USA | Thanks. That would be me. I've never met either of the gentlemen, but there were decent pix on the site for everything. I gathered from what I saw that Al always has his hair in place, and Miles never does. And the pix I found as reference for Miles... the expression wasn't far off. I just had to guess as far as the toenails, but they are probably pretty close too.
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Well Jas, That's some great stuff.I was laughing so hard, I thing I broke something! :D
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Location: SoCal | Jas, Thank you for the update. I feel like I'm there now... not missing out on anything. :D
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Where's the llama? |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Under the foot. |
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Location: closely held secret | No. This image has not been altered. This is what was waiting for us when we came out of the Factory.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Did Miles finally snap? |
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| I know it's a celeb..... but oooooooowowwwwwwwwww!!!
probably about 80% of the first words out of mouth's of all attending.....
tomorrow morning.
Still wish I was there.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | That llama on the far left :D is one ugly beast! |
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Location: closely held secret | This is the winner of this year's prize.
An Adamas I reissue prototype. One beautiful piece of work, complete with OP-Pro. Unfortunately, it's now midnight, and none of us can remember the winner's name. He came as a guest of an OFC member. Rick Hall on the left.
Note Cliff's new friends in the background.
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Waskel!! You're too much!!! Glad you had a fantastic time. And to think, I could've won that--Sigh--If only i couldv'e been there--sniff-sniff.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Next year for sure. That is just too sweet. |
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Location: Waurika OK | The hole in that guitar looks about the size of a llama's foot. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Wish I could have went, maybe next year. :) Looks like you guys had nice weather in the pics. :) The llamas were a nice touch. :D |
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Location: Midland, MI | Now I'm really depressed about not having been able to go. It's already on next years schedule, though...one way or another. |
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Location: closely held secret | The guitar was Kim K's. The foot was Templeman's.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Was Temp deported? |
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Location: New Orleans | WoW :eek: The Adamas I Reissue retails for $3099.00! What an awesome collectable, he's one helluva lucky guy!!! |
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Location: SoCal | "Was Temp deported?"
You mean "again"? |
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| " Maybe we do need to tighten up the borders."
Then some people might have a lot of trouble leaving. |
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| Was this an OFC Tour or a meeting of Weight Watchers? |
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| I just played yet another last gig ever and the world is tilting in all sorts of directions. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | How'd It go??? |
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| It went great. First half only, standing in for a sax player (?) - I can do George Benson impersonations til the cows come home. Unfortunately people alweays think "wow, that guy does good GB impersonations". Nobody ever thinks, "wow, it's GB." Is it cos I is white? Or is it cos I just ain't any good? Delete as appropriate.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by schroeder:
BTW - if anyone ever wants to know how to improvise, just listen to GB's version of Take Five on the Bad album. It may well be the greatest thing you ever heard. ...and to think that I have been relying on old episodes of "Who's Line is it Anyway."
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Location: south east Michigan | Tee-shirt......it's got to be put on a t-shirt and sold at the OFC store. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | schroeder,
and why didn't you contribute to the home recording thread we have going? Having a member throw out a little GB would be awesome. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | If anyone has the talent and creat a decent gallery of the pictures from each years tours, I would be glad to work with you and post/host it here. I just don't have the time to create it. Not talking about just a link, but if you can put together a "tour pictures" model for each, catptions and such, I will host it for ya. I think I have over 1000 pictures accumulated from the first two tours. |
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Location: Georgia USA | Photoshop 7 can make good galleries, pretty much automatically with thumbs and all. Really fast. The only real slowdown would be captioning individual photos. I also have another good gallery program. I could put it together. What you might want to consider would be to send a set of 24 pics for one thing, that can all take the same heading, another 24 of something else. It could be done pretty easily. I design and maintain our church's web site. There is a quick gallery I made for a recent ladies' retreat you can see... nhbaptist.org
Again, like you, Mr. O, my issue is time. But as I said, anyone with Photoshop can export a folder of pix as a web gallery.
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| t28 - I don't own any recording stuff at all, whatsoever or in any way shape or form. That would be why. And given my technical competence it is perhaps just as well. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well, then I guess myself, along with Jeff, Noah, Tony, Dave, and anyone else interested will just have to hop on a plane and check you out at a local pub that serves warm beer and fish wrapped in newspaper! :D |
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Location: SoCal | Did anybody get a pic of the 12 fret nylon string in the demo room? It was next to the koa guitars. I loved that thing and could consider selling my country artist and getting one. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Paul...check out the "guitars we played thread" |
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | The lady who brought the Lamas to the parking lot after the tour was blonde haired and pressed the frets in the finger board, as her DAY JOB... She said she had owned the Lamas for 11 years...
The lady that did the Abalone inlay work was dark haired and did not have any Lamas... She had been working at Ovation for at least 15 yrs...
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Location: Georgia USA | I saw the picture... that was no lady. At least none that I'd wanna kiss. |
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| "could consider selling my country artist"
You're out of the club Paul.... |
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Location: SoCal | Hey, why would I want to be a member of any club that's low enough to accept me?
You hadda see that guitar. I don't need the extra 2 frets, it has the CA nut width, and the bridge is towards the middle of the body for a better acoustic sound. It was like it was built for me....... |
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Location: NJ | Just remember Moody . . . on your CountryArtist . . . I get "first dibs"!!
btw:
Cathy . . . the woman who works at the Facory in the Inlay Department, and went OUT of her way (at the last minute) to transport two llamas from her home to the Factory at the end of the day . . . just so that others may get a kick of seeing the utter look of surprise on MY face . . . was VERY MUCH a Nice Lady . . . .
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Location: Georgia USA | Are we talking about the same lady, Cliff? See below...
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Location: NJ | uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . . . . . . no.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Abendicum:
The lady who brought the Lamas to the parking lot after the tour was blonde haired and pressed the frets in the finger board, as her DAY JOB... She said she had owned the Lamas for 11 years...
The lady that did the Abalone inlay work was dark haired and did not have any Lamas... She had been working at Ovation for at least 15 yrs...
Ab Hmmm. Ab, this is the lady who brought the llamas...
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Location: closely held secret | Musta been a different shift. Here I just thought Ab spent too much time in the paint room. ;)
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Location: NJ | I believe Cathy works in both departments . . .
I think she predominantly works on the frets/inlays on the fingerboards, and she also works with the dark-haired woman in that other little room doing the abalone inlays from time-to-time . . . |
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Location: SoCal | "For future reference, anyone with a beard will be presumed to be a man."
Very un-P.C. I certainly would never have made that comment. |
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Location: NJ | that is Chris
he splits his time between fret pressing and bowed instruments.
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| Paul - was the 12 fret nylon flat finger board? Did it have a cutaway? Does anyone have a picture of it?
Is that Folklore LX a contour bowl or a standard medium-depth roundback?
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| As the screen flashed up with my previous post I thought al's post said "he splits his time between fret pressing and bowel movements." |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by schroeder:
As the screen flashed up with my previous post I thought al's post said "he splits his time between fret pressing and bowel movements." Don't we all? |
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Location: closely held secret | btw, here's the British soccer champion delivering the death blow...
Note the binding flying off... |
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Location: SoCal | Schroeder:
It had a flat fingerboard, and a cutaway. New, inlaid rosette. I'm surprised that I didn't get a picture of it. |
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Who's foot is Mr T. treading on in that pic?
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Location: closely held secret | Here we call it soccer. We already have a violent game called football, and it was confusing everyone to have two.
The foot is Kim Keller's, the miscreant who brought the guitar with the full intent of destroying it to the shock and horror of all present.
Actually it was quite funny. He had this Celeb he rescued from the dustbin with it's bridge lifting. He took it out at dinner and proceeded to drag it around by the headstock, 'accidently' drop it, throw it to various people, and generally abuse it while seeming oblivious to the looks he was getting. Finally he used it for kicking practice, with Moody taking the first shot. Unfortunately, he was wearing tenners and only succeeded in causing the top to begin separating from the body. It was Master Paul Templeman's mighty boot which pierced the body just below the bridge.
Brad (slipkid) decided to take the poor thing home for a decent burial. (actually he just wanted the preamp - op40 I believe.)
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Location: south east Michigan | I took that smashed guitar home. I'm having a blast with it. BrianT's wife came out when I was unloading his luggage. I said I had something special to show her, then pretended to trip and drop the guitar on the sidewalk. I have shocked the bejezzus out of my wife and all 3 kids.
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Location: closely held secret | Perfect, Brad. You said you'd do that. Hope you get out of traction soon. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Jasingram-
That is a brilliant illustration! As a former 'traditionaI artist' I can really appreciate the talent and time that went into that. You are very skilled and I hope you are getting paid well for your talent in some type of artistic career. Great job, and thanks for sharing the illustration on the site!
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Location: Kane, PA | Slipkid, love the story!!!!!!!
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | If you want to kick a guitar, please make it an MOB. :) |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Doesn't MOB stand for "My Other Boot"? :rolleyes: :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Ka na koa do eet toe aka
(the voracious monster is storming the factory)
Go ti mo na ga mo cheet oh
(It is eating the all of the abalone like it was cheetoh's)
Ahhheeeeeee!
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Location: closely held secret | Ga yo foo to ahn gogogo.
Grab your camera and run! |
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Location: closely held secret | Shows what little you know.
Apparently you weren't allowed to watch the high-quality science fiction films coming out of Japan in the early 1960's. |
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