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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 848
Location: Munich, Germany | I just love the idea of a carbon neck - with carbon headstock...
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 848
Location: Munich, Germany | ...and carbon braces as well.
Even when this Q has the MOB holes. |
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 1138
Location: CT | Originally posted by cwk2:
... More rare than a PF22. ...but not more rare than this, right? (Thanx Miles!) :D
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Joined: March 2006 Posts: 1634
Location: Chehalis, Washington | Very cool stuff! The all-carbon idea I think is an awesome way to go. |
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Joined: January 2005 Posts: 4903
Location: Phoenix AZ | I'll admit that there is some infatuation with carbon fiber, just the sexiness of it. But in the end for me it's still the sound that's number one priority. I played two of the original Q's at the factiry and they were very nice. But I would not jump to the conclusion that they make all other guitars obsolete. Dave |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 1421
Location: Orange County, California | Dave,
Please quit screwing around and bring back the Ovation Gallery... |
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Joined: March 2003 Posts: 555
Location: Wooster, Ohio | I am new to the pictures of Q, never really kept up with that. It looks awesome. I would disagree that graphite is not the future. I use graphite now and will never go back. Sound and duribility hard to beat. Absolute shame this masterpeice never got anywhere.
Steve |
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Joined: January 2005 Posts: 4903
Location: Phoenix AZ | Steve, don't misinterpret what I said or maybe I was not clear. I am not saying that graphite isn't necessarily the future. What I am saying is that to buy a guitar simply BECAUSE it's graphite would (in my opinion) be a mistake. But to buy it because it sounds good, plays good, excites some visceral feelings in you, etc. or is just "right" by what ever definitoion you choose would be a whole different matter. Believe me, I have bought plenty of guitars because of how they looked or how I thought they made me look. For the most part those instruments have long since been passed on to others. Dave |
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Joined: January 2002 Posts: 14127
Location: 6 String Ranch | That is a very cool picture of the proto of the viper bass. Is that one of Miles pictures? I know the bass is sitting right across the room from me now and it still looks good!
As I look at it again that may be a different bass, mine is fretless. |
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 1138
Location: CT | Yes that is...uh..WAS Miles' bass. He graciously let it out of his stable, it's here with me now and I absolutely love it. So there's a fretless one too? Sweet. |
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Joined: January 2002 Posts: 14127
Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, the fretless is s/n X B032. What's yours? |
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 1138
Location: CT | s/n X059. Not sequential, but I don't know how the prototype serial numbers work. I thought it was a one off, but an evil fretless twin, huh? Was that all or could there be a few more floating around? |
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 1138
Location: CT | ..does the fretless have line markers and dot inlays? just lines? I'm guessing its not just plain ebony, or it would be real easy to tell them apart. |
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