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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Just read on the adamas website that the walnut fretboards that apparently come on all adamas are impregnated with resin. Now, I know that's a typo because my W597-MEWP has an ebony fretboard and most of the other current production models I've seen are ebony. What I was wondering was: Are the ebony fretboards impregnated with resin or are they native. I'm guessing that they are simply lightly coated with mineral oil, or some deriviative thereof. Any info, much appreciated |
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Location: NJ | Ebony is so hard and dense already that I don't even think that David Crosby could impregnate it.
(sorry, Melissa . . ) |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | http://www.adamasguitars.com/?fa=tech_neck |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Found another misstatement ---
the tops are made with either poplar or birch ... not just birch
http://www.adamasguitars.com/?fa=tech_top |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I don't believe that they impregnate anything anymore. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So why didn't they just give us a password protected access to the new site to preview and proof read for them in the first place?
It would have saved time! |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | But That would be Too EASY!!! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I know it's really easy sit back, and edit someone else's work, and it looks like they worked really hard on the website, inspired by picasso! and probably only nerds like me would notice such things. But then again I noticed that the picture of the MEWP-II in the timeline is upside down. Oh boy, I know they hate me now, but I really do love the Adamas guitar. |
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Location: NJ | I was at the factory yesterday. I watched a neck being put on an adamas. It was walnut but very dark. It made me think. |
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Location: SoCal | Made you think about what? |
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Location: NJ | The necks COULD be being impregnated "out-of-house" . . . . |
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| al.
I don't suppose there was any sign of a 6773 being built? |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | LOL!!!Schroder You're too much!! :D |
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Location: NJ | ". . Cliff, are you volunteering to get a neck or two pregnant? . ."
- wouldn't be the first time . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Actually Al, I was wondering too, what did the dark walnut neck make you think about? |
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Location: NJ | it made me think that it was not like the light color of the originals and it would be another detail I would have to mention in reference to the reissues. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | LOL!
That's so funny, actually that's about the depths of my thoughts too. Is it lunch time? |
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| sorry I did not see the guitar
Me too. Thanks for the answer. :( |
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Location: SoCal | You guys will be happy to know that the typos and the scale length b.s. has been corrected on the Adamas website for the 12 fretter. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Good, glad to see a quick responce. That's the way it should be. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | It almost makes ya think the web guy at Ovation was reading this thread and making changes as they came up. Just mentioning this in case anyone doubts for a moment that they read this site everyday just like us. :) |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Since it looks like they read this, then I'd like to recommend (not that anyone would pay attention to what I say) that as a requirement for the people who write the content for the website they be required to play guitar and that they be given either as a loan, at cost or as payment, an adamas guitar so they know what they are writing about. Then they would know what the guitar is made out of, scale length, that some of the pictures are upside down, that they should have a sound sample etc ... Anyway, the website is a step in the right direction and should evolve nicely. |
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Location: SoCal | I've played Ovations for 30 years and I have no idea what the scale length is, except the it goes from here to over here.
But somebody besides us needs to be proof reading this stuff. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I don't scale length is a big issue when you only use the first 5 frets. |
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Location: SoCal | Which is two more frets than me. Stay with the money frets ....... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Well Paul, I guess the good thing is that when you wear out the first 3 frets you can just swap them with other frets wires form higher up the neck, right? |
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Location: NJ | THAT'S "the 4th one" . . . |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Those of us in the Praise Band corner prefer to rely on Gsus! :rolleyes:
So why don't they just make the first 3 frets out of tougher materials? |
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Location: closely held secret | one finger here, this one here - no, one fret lower - then one over here. got it? |
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Location: NJ | ". . one finger here, this one here - then one over here. got it? . ."
For a minute there, I thought we were talking about Mary "Brunswick" from Wildwood again . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'd be happy to teach you the DisChord. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | How about Datchord??? :rolleyes: |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | I love the way Schroeder Chimes right in and never misses a beat!! That was definately Creative!! |
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New Adamas Website typo: Impregnated Ebony Fretboard --- NOT!