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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | The Denver boys (stephent28 and professor bb) finally got together in the professor's bandroom last evening. Played a little, sampled a good mix of models, and were both blinded by the neon when all the switches were thrown. Stephen mentioned the soon to be released limited edition OFC Guitar. Where can one obtain more information about this model, and how many of you OFC mates are already standing in line looking for some GAS relief? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Take it easy AL....I got your back on this one....
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Proffesor....there is a recent thread on this. I'll bump it up for you.
We hear it will happen. Maybe we will hear more in a couple months....Maybe. |
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand | :rolleyes:
I'm just kidding. Don't hate me.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I always thought the gooey pickguards looked shitty and serve no purpose. My cutaway does not have one and looks GREAT. I certainly hope we can order the OFC guitar sans pickguard. Dave |
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Location: Australia | Originally posted by Standingovation:
I always thought the gooey pickguards looked shitty and serve no purpose. My cutaway does not have one and looks GREAT. I certainly hope we can order the OFC guitar sans pickguard. Dave Totally agree. My 1687 (2002) came without the resin blob.
I've never scrapped my pick on the soundboard. |
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| I'm not sure why there is such a fascination with the slothead. If it's merely aesthetics, from what I've been able to discern from the Martin board, there are many who like the UMGF's model, but find changing strings to be quite the chore. Some complain that they wind up scratching the headstock's finish when restringing. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I rather enjoy the process of stringing slotheads (well maybe the 12 string gets tedious). I've developed a technique that makes it fairly quick and doesn't scratch a thing.
I find that slotheads by and large have better sustain than simillar guitars without. This I attribute to the greater break over the nut. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Since when does the UMGF know anything?
Oh Jezz...what did I say!!??
Please don't report me as a troll or anything.
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Pardon me. I must be in a fowl mood today. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | SOme of the UMGF members show their worth by being unable to string a slothead without scratching the headstock's finish.
Guess we need to show them how to play their guitars also (head ducking to avoid the flying objects thrown my way :eek: ) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Since the majority of my guitars are slots, I guess I'm just used to it (stringing). It's no chore and there is no reason anyone would scratch the finish unless they were extremely careless or a freaking idiot. There are technical reasons that slots sound better than flats and that's all been discussed here previously (ie search). A new slot arrives today and I'll give a full report on Monday. I think you'll like this one and it's not what you think it is. Hint: CLLXCBSBWNSH
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Location: closely held secret | Custom Legend LX Contour Bowl Sun Burst Wide Neck Slot Head.
Sounds nice, Dave. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | and a Parrrr-tridge in-a Pear treeeee |
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| "If it's merely aesthetics"
Well Highway I'd have to say there is nothing wrong with Aesthetics. I happen to think the carved headstock and bridges on the slotted and non slotted versions of the adamas guitars make for the best dam looking guitars I have ever laid eyes on myself.
THe slotheads just make them more "Old School" and they have grown on me since I first saw one.
I am not sure of the techincal advantages or disadvantages of a slothead. Can't be that bad to string them?? I am glad for one that Ovation made these flagship Adamas models back in the day... It gives some of us that ultimate guitar purchase goal to shoot for. Totally too cool for school to own one of these.
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| Let me use a different analogy, because I'm all about aesthetics, too, really.
The Fender Telecaster's vintage three-saddle bridge is cool as hell looking. The aesthetics are great. But more often than not, after one plunks down the money for a Tele with that aesthetically pleasing, vintage-looking three-saddle bridge, one is immediately hit with the fact that the guitar is almost impossible to intonate. Then the hunt begins for a newer three-saddle bridge that looks a lot like the vintage style bridges but can be intonated for each string--or for something more updated than that.
And some of the Martin forumites discovered this (and I'm just commenting on what I read; I'm not taking sides)when they got their forum model guitar.
Me? I'm a bottomfeeder, I guess--out of necessity--so I'll never be able to afford the OFC model, so it doesn't matter to me. Again, I was just saying... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Technically, slothead guitars should sound better than flats because the slotted headstock forces the string over the nut at a sharper angle, thus putting more pressure on the nut and creating more sustain. The same physics holds true at the bridge. Dave |
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| Excellent answer.
Thank you. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Weather you can hear the difference or not is another story ... |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | "Class is now in session, time for a pop quiz.Put away your guitars, picks and amps and take out a number 2 pencil"
Dave, I did not know that. :eek: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Here's a simple analogy. If you were going to strangle someone would you a) simply push the rope against their throat, or b) would you wrap the rope around from the back causing a much greater angle and thus more pressure on their throat to kill them faster? Dave
PS - In addition to acronymns, I'm also very good at analogies. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Metaphorically speaking Dave? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by MWoody:
Metaphorically speaking Dave? Analogy, accronym, metaphorical, ... whatever |
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Location: NJ | but killing 'em "faster" isn't always better . . . |
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| Frightening analogy.
When it comes to that string angle bend is directly proportionate to the amount of sustain achieved equation, it might be theoretically true, but Greg Bennett is always talking about that in his Samick videos, and 95% of those Greg Bennett guitars are duds. |
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| An acronym is quite different from an analogy (which is an extended metaphor). |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Cliff - if you're trying to say that it's not the speed of the kill but more the quality of the gurgle, I think we're entering new territory here... :eek: |
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