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Location: Portsmouth England | Does anyone know the full spec of Mr Reed's Adamas? I wondered if it had a unidirectional carbon fibre top or a crossweave one. I asked Preston himself (via email) but he didn't know there were different types. Thank you for your time. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | You might be able to tell from these pics on his website:
Preston Reed Web Site |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Looks like a textured export model. St. Al would know for sure. |
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Location: SoCal | Reed's had his guitar of several years. It's an original Adamas top (old style textured) and a long neck body. It was custom built for him.
Actually, I believe he has two of them, a red one and an aquamarina colored one. I saw him perform live in a small setting about 5 years ago and he was playing the latter one. |
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Location: Portsmouth England | Thanks guys. I had never heard of an Adamas before I saw Preston Reed playing one... I read the Adamas website about the SMT being better for fingerstyle players and the CVT being better for rhythm players. I tried as many as I could find near here (not many!) and the nicest one was a blue W597 CVT so I had that one. Despite being mainly a fingerstyle player. (Probably the others just needed a change of strings. But you can only go on how it feels in the store.)
I don't play much like Preston Reed. More like John Fahey or Stefan Grossman maybe. I've got various other acoustics (A Martin and others). I always liked playing electrics like the Fender Strat but disliked the fact that I could never quite get the right tone, even with a bank of electronics. The Adamas has a nice action, fast response, very level amplitude, and also sounds fine unplugged or plugged. It works for me. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | I wouldn't worry about what the Adamas website says about the CVT being better for rhythm and the SMT more for fingerstyle. From what I've read in the OFC site, that might be a bit misleading. I'm definitely not a rhythm player, and I bought a cross-weave (arrival expected in a couple of months). |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | It's my understanding that there's no nylon string adamas because it wouldn't have the energy to move the top. Therefore, it would follow that since the SMT has more wood in the top it would be more amenable to fingerstyle/classical style. Of course, the CVT works just fine played fingerstyle and you can play a classical with a flat pick. It actually sounds pretty good, think Willie Nelson. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Think John McLaughlin, or Strunz and Farah. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Preston's are the original configuration top, original configuration Ad1 for that matter(you know, the good ones!) Also there are a couple of the sound holes that are not cut out, just are painted black to look like holes. This is so he has something to slap up there. That was the first rust colored one. Not sure about the others. |
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