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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I know this has been mentioned in other threads but..........
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3710625036&category=33029]
.....you can really make out the A bracing on this one! Can anyone tell me if the top is actually(permamently?) "rippled" by the bracing or does the bracing pattern just show up with temperature changes?(like kind of a "ghost" image?)
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Looks a little like David Letterman when he smiles! (j/k...oh now I've done it, after raising all that stink about people belittling Glen Campbell in a previous post :eek: ).
Hey Mike, I guess that ovation is so happy she just can't hold back her smile!
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| Originally posted by Norseman1:
Looks a little like David Letterman when he smiles! (j/k...oh now I've done it, after raising all that stink about people belittling Glen Campbell in a previous post :eek: ).
Hey Mike, I guess that ovation is so happy she just can't hold back her smile!
Norse(are you going to the tour Trboy?)man1
hi norse, i did my best to explain that 'mug shot' comment...check it out, steve |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | it's permanent. |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Hey Steve!
At the risk of certainly boring others by dragging out the post on the Glen Campbell pic., but, out of RESPECT to you, in your deserving a reply to your post, I post the following:
Steve, I apologize if it sounded like I was directing any negative tones towards you. Again, I was just merely upset with the vultures of society that can rationalize turing a buck from any circumstance/situation. I directed this at those who were trying to sell the picture, not us who laughed at the idiocy of the whole thing. Like Paul M. said, we need to have a sense of humor...and we do, but I think we can all agree that this particulat ebay auction is certainly in bad taste to say the least.
Peace Steve, Sorry for the misunderstanding, and thanks for caring enough of what I posted to reply bro!
Norse(now...if I find out that YOU are the guy selling the pic...well then SHAME ON YOU! ;) )man1 |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "May our mistakes be written in the sand, our committment to each other in stone and the love we share in our hearts"
If it's not Irish it should be.
Or an alternative for some of you:
"May the wind be ever at your back... especially if you enter a long drive tournement!
May I suggest you learn more about St. Patrck by reading "How the Irish Saved Civilization".
And now we return to our regularly scheduled program... |
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Location: SoCal | I think the entire quote is
"May the road rise up to meet you
May the wind always be your back
May the rain fall softly on your fields,
And until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of his hand."
And for Templeman,
"May God never close his fist around you!"
Ha!
Sorry. The visual was just too good to pass up. |
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Location: SoCal | using my once a week "off subject" allotment:
What they give, they take away...remember playing a tourney at the golf course at former MCAS, El Toro in a Santa Anna...over 60mph winds. They had a long drive on a hole downwind and one on a hole directly into the wind. If I remember right, long drive winner into the wind was about 160yds. Anyone with a slice found their ball in another fairway. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Tony, I must be your antithesis - I only stay on subject once a week! Sounds like a time to pull out the 2 iron and burn some worms! Here in the Pacific Northwest it's handy to know how to bounce of the trees. You can get an extra 30 yards off of a Douglas Fir!
I stopped playing golf about 2 years ago. My IQ, my bowling average, my golf score and the greens fees all hit the same number. |
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Location: SoCal | Grew up in Oregon, worked at a golf course in high school, played a little at Univ of Oregon...played a lot of courses up in OR and WA. Learned how to scramble around and under a lot of trees. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Golf, now that's a lovely subject!!
They say you play 18 holes because the old scots had finished the bottle by then and quit and went home.
I'm not sure what I look at more on ebay, guitars or golf stuff. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Well Bill, Tony,
Let me offer you both a round of golf if you get up in this area - that is as long the the course name incudes words like County or Municipal. You guys can take me if it contains words like McCormack, Country Club, Estates or Semi-ah-moo!
Maybe the first OFC NW Open! :D |
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Location: SoCal | Golf and guitars - always looking for that additional piece of equipment that will make you hit longer/straighter in golf or sound better with a guitar. Never ending search. |
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Location: Perth Amboy, NJ | To get back to the topic, the rippling is permanent. It's cause is improper humidification during the life of the instrument. The top shrinks from lack of moisture, but the round bowl obviously will not ever shrink. It's also why Ovations are prone to verticle finish cracks. Restoring humidty to the proper level will not remove the ripples. (I know from personal experience). In my case, they did not effect the tone or playability of the instrument. But is's a bummer all the same ... |
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Location: St. Petersburg, FL USA | Originally posted by MWoody:
"May our mistakes be written in the sand, our committment to each other in stone and the love we share in our hearts"
This is the best non-Bible quote I have heard in years. Thanks for sharing that. And what's this "name change" stuff I saw you post about? If it's your OFC handle, I'd keep it, it's got character (...or as P.T. would say, spunk :D ) |
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Back to the subject...GOLF! There used to be tens of thousands of prairie dogs in Southwest Florida. Then...I took up golf. Everytime one would stick its head up...BAM...one of my worm burners would decapitate the poor creature. When all the prairie dogs were gone...which didn't take long with the way I played, I gave up the sport as there was no more "sport" left. |
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Location: Central Oregon | I've never actually played a round of golf, although I've gone out & hit buckets of balls on several occasions. I like whackin' 'em out there. Let somebody else go find the damned things. About once a bucket I can get one to sail out quite a ways, I can see how that could get to be fun but I don't have time for any more hobbies.
I did get some good advice from a friend who plays-
If you're caught out on the fairway & a sudden lightening storm pops up, *immediately* go to the most open area & hold a one iron aloft as high as you can!
Even God can't hit a one iron.
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Subject: Bracing
Thank you everyone who answered my question,it has helped me and I know it will help others! :)
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Subject: Golf
I call it "Cow Pasture Pool"....I've played several times but never caught on to the purpose! Every 2nd time I'd hit the ball...it'll fall in a little "gopher hole" (must've been left over from peterbright's games) I'd tee up again.....hit ball....fall in gopher hole.....tee up.....hit ball....fall in gopher hole....I'd wind up with a negative score for 18 holes and I'd feel bad 'cause I couldn't get the high scores (over 200+) like my buddies.... ;) ....so I sold my clubs in frustration! :(
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | The other thing I didn't like about golf.....was trying to get the ball thru that bloomin' windmill!!!
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Location: Upper Left USA | I've been told that Golf is the perfect combination of a walk in the woods and cussin.
The Golfers I know tell almost as many tall tales as you guys!
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If someone at the gathering hollers "Fore" you only need to cover the soundboard! That way you won't damage the braces. |
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Location: NJ | Only "played" Golf once (and that was only 9 holes - lightning storm ended it). Enjoyed it immensely and was told that I was pretty good at it for a beginner. Need to find someone with enough "patience" to give me a lesson or two. . .
Years ago, I went to a Driving Range with some buddies to take out some "frustration" out on a couple buckets of balls. After what seemed an ENDLESS succession of alternating "hooks" and "slices" I was down to the very LAST ball of the last bucket. I stood over the ball and CONCENTRATED for a full minute on "how" I wanted to hit it, and "where" I wanted it to go . . the whole "Zen" thing, . . etc. . . etc.
WHACK!!! The ball SAILED!!! Straight, High, Long & Far!!! It was perfect!!! It even "felt" perfect! It felt incredibly easy!!!
I then looked at end of my club . . .
. . . the head of the driver was missing!
The "ball" that I watched travel so perfectly was in fact the decapitated club head.
I left the busted club against the fence and sheepishly slipped out . . . . |
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Your braces are showing.....
