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Location: SoCal | The U681T 6-str now has a 12-string version. Only SIX, probably won't last 48 hours. Plenty of positive comments about the 6-str Ute. This has to be a "boomer".
Don't wait, contact Al or I may buy what hasn't been sold. |
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Location: SoCal | Great. Can I borrow yours for a few months just for a test drive? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Correction, there's not 6 available! One is already in transit to AZ. Not sure how many are left, but Tony is right these will not last long. Dave |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I have got to hear this guitar. |
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Location: PDX | I have a hard enough time with six strings for crying out loud. What the heck am i going to do with twelve??
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Location: SoCal | Dave is right...was six available. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Great. Can I borrow yours for a few months just for a test drive? Paul, You could never warm-up to the 6-string version... what makes you think you'd like the 12? |
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Location: SoCal | Only way to know is to try..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I don't know. As great as the U681 is and as wonderful as the 12 string version probably sounds, I just like to be able to get up higher on the neck (like those classic Supertramp and Yes tunes).
For me, a 12 needs to either have 14 frets to the body or be a 12 fret cutaway (like my Baxendale).
I am sure after I hear and play one of these babies, I will regret these remarks and wish I had grabbed one but that's how I feel without taking one for a spin. |
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Location: SoCal | Fair enough Paul... maybe Al can ship Tony's down here with mine, I'll pick out the one I like, and you can hold on to Tony's as long as you want.
When you are done, you can pass it over to Fred and when he's done... |
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Location: SoCal | I knew we could find a way to work this out..... |
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Location: SoCal | I have a hard enough time with six strings for crying out loud. What the heck am i going to do with twelve??
alternate?? |
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Location: SoCal | For me, a 12 needs to either have 14 frets to the body... Everyone has different playing styles (and a cutaway isn't a bad idea such as my non-slothead 6759CL) but the shiny bowl, Pacemaker, the GC, and the 1658 Custom Legend are 12-fret, non-cutaway slotheads that are great playing 12's. Combining the innovation of the slothead UTE and creating a 12-string, may even excel over my Adamas I and II.
And, when was the last time you saw a slothead textured top Adamas for sale...would have to have been the couple made as original or a custom job. If you found one, you could buy a new car for what the guitar would cost.
You would not only have the only one on the block to have one, maybe the only one within one day's driving distance. |
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Location: SoCal | I've got 2 acoustic 12's and a Preacher Deluxe 12. The acoustics are an Adamas I and a recently rebuilt GC 12 string. There's not a lot on a 6 that I can't play on a 12 (hey, when you're only talking 3 chords.....). If I had to pick pure acoustic sound, the Adamas I ("Big Blue") would win hands down. But the GC 12 has a great sound to it and I love the neck.
Flavors of ice cream and I love them all. They all have their time and place..... |
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Location: NJ | no my usb is not fix
it is 17 degrees outside
pics taken indoor transferred to one computer burned to a cd resized for the stupid gallery and then posted.
wow that was an hour out of my life 
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | That looks like a carved headstock to me |
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Location: big island | how's the weight balance, al? can you also describe the sound? |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Is that the back of the OFC Guitar? |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Phil Wong:
Is that the back of the OFC Guitar? gotta be, huh? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Looks like 1758 or a Pacemaker on steroids. :cool: :cool:
Due to the cold weather up north ship them thru Tennessee.
Blues and I will ship them on when it gets warmer. Like about July.......... 2010. :D |
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Location: SoCal | I'm starting to drool looking at that pic..... |
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Location: ranson,wva | the back shot looks like a #47 headstock to me... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That U681-12 looks AMAZING. Mr. UPS says he'll be visiting me on Friday. One guitar, a few pizza boxes, and other assorted junk. I can't wait. Dave |
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Location: big island | does the fraction on the headstock of the six-stringer, 1/12, mean that this guitar is #1 of 12 made? |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Originally posted by Lanaki:
does the fraction on the headstock of the six-stringer, 1/12, mean that this guitar is #1 of 12 made? How many OFC guitars did you expect to be built? :) |
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