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| I do not know if they even made a mid depth for the adamas or not?
That is an interesting question.
I saw on one site a guy from italy ordered a shallow bowl adamas, so if they make those, then mid bowl would not seem to be out of the question would it? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | When you sell your property and buy the slothead, I'll find you a house in my neighborhood and invite you over any time. What kind of beer do you like? |
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| Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
When you sell your property and buy the slothead, I'll find you a house in my neighborhood and invite you over any time. What kind of beer do you like? Well I don't drink, but I can still bring the slothead over! By the way...WHAT is that small screw in the back of the original slothead's headstock? What does it do?
After reading the original adamas manual online, I see that the adamas slothead's tension rod is adjusted from INSIDE the guitar. But I did not see a mention of what the heck that small screw did.
It looks like a screw you'd buy at a hardware store and looks like someone just screwed it into the back of the headstock for no reason....but I know that is not true...because I looked and all the adamas slotheads have one. It just looks kinda wierd where it is.
So what does it do? |
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Location: Tennessee | It holds the truss rod cover on. |
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| Originally posted by stonebobbo:
It holds the truss rod cover on. Well that explains that!Thanks. |
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Location: NJ | The PRODUCTION Adamases had a K-Bar and were adjusted from inside. The SlotHeads had a truss rod (and hence, a truss rod cover).
The pic isn't great, but it shows the cover off and the truss rod exposed.
THIS was what made me think (for so long) that my guitar was #20 as the the inside of the truss rod cavity and the back of the cover both had "20" written inside.
Years later (at the SlotHead Reunion at the Factory), I read on the computer printout that my guitar had NECK #20, and I guess they both were marked so that the two pieces would "meet up" at the end of the line.
Whitehead made an interesting observation when last he was at my house playing it in that he noticed that the TRC on the SlotHead rests INSIDE an indentation carved into the headstock, where the ReIssue rests on top.
Is this true??
I don't have a ReIssue t'use as comparison . . . |
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Location: SoCal | The original Adamas slotheads were all deep bowls. And the online manual doesn't apply to the original slots as far as the neck adjustment. The Production Adamii had the K-bar in the neck. The original 34 slots didn't and the adjustment for them is at the headstock..... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Cliff: When I did the A/B comparison between Mark's original No. 43 and OFC No. 5, I did notice some difference in the TRC, but I didn't associate it with a possible indentation on the original (Boy, this sure sounds geeky). Here are close-ups of both. Tuppy might also have some good observations on this subject.
Original slothead No. 43
OFC No. 5
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I think they are both indented, but am not sure |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Here are a couple of pic's of my #87:
Here is the TRC: notice the attached wood block (the screw goes into this):
And here is the TR/TRC access on my #87: There is a cut out but the TRC is tapered (see above pic) to hold it down: also the strings DO NOT clear (the D and G Strings) the TRC so loosen and move them out of the way before trying to remove the TRC:
Still one of the best sounding and lightest guitars I have ever owned! A true Keeper!
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Location: Atlanta GA | Welcome Webe123. You are going to get a lot of advice here on which guitar to buy.
Are you still located in Jackson, TN? My wife and I were raised in Huntingdon just up the road. I have been to that same music store many times. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | The TRC on #45 is not held by a screw into a wood block as on Mike's 47RI.
Instead there is a brass sleeve epoxied to the back of the TRC that the brass machine screw goes into.
Original to the guitar...??? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | yes |
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Location: NJ | yes |
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| Originally posted by Watchme22:
Welcome Webe123. You are going to get a lot of advice here on which guitar to buy.
Are you still located in Jackson, TN? My wife and I were raised in Huntingdon just up the road. I have been to that same music store many times. Right now I live in Peoria,IL. But when I come into my money from the land I am selling, I am moving back to Jackson, TN.....WAY too cold here in Illinois!
I knew Cecil the owner and used to go into bandstand all the time...that was where I first glimpsed an adamas.....but NOBODY played that one though....it was just up on display and stayed there forever it seemed.
It was just an expensive guitar even back then and nobody really had the cash to buy it.
I think he was finally able to sell it a couple of years later. |
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| To everyone else, thanks for taking the time to help educate me on the adamas guitar!
There is so much I did not even know!
I just wish this board had been around in the 80's, but maybe not....I would have wated an adamas all the more then! LOL! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | you're welcome, now stick around. |
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About the original adamas slothead.......
