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Jeff W. |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039 Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | nice freaking axe | ||
moody, p.i. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15664 Location: SoCal | Yeah, but I'd prefer this one http://ovationguitars.com/index.cfm?fa=news&art=461 | ||
Jeff W. |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039 Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Oh yeah, Well, ok. | ||
stonebobbo |
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Joined: August 2002 Posts: 8307 Location: Tennessee | Now this is really, really cool ... http://ovationguitars.com/index.cfm?fa=news&art=458 | ||
cliff |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842 Location: NJ | I've seen that sycamore guitar, and it is VERRRRY Nice!!!! | ||
GrilledCheese |
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Joined: May 2005 Posts: 327 Location: Evansville,IN | The sycamore guitar gets my vote. Definitely one of a kind. :) | ||
4fingers |
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Joined: March 2003 Posts: 127 Location: Corvallis, OR | Am I missing something again ? The Folklore featured in Jeff. W's post, is advertised with a 1 3/4 nut,while the nylon equivalent in Moody's post is pictured with the standard 1 7/8 nut. (I mean standard for this type of guitar.) | ||
moody, p.i. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15664 Location: SoCal | Actually, what's cool about the Classic LX is that the nut width is not standard. Most 12 fret to the body nylon strings have a 2 inch nut. With a 1 7/8 inch nut, it's like the Country Artist (now just known as the Artist LX), but with the bridge moved back towards the center of the lower bout. With that move, and all the LX appointments (lighter bowl and X bracing), that guitar has got to sound better acoustically than the Artist (Country Artist). And for people like me, who rarely go above the 12th fret (hey, I've got the 87 and the electrics for that), it's the perfect all around nylon string. | ||
Standingovation |
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Joined: June 2002 Posts: 6197 Location: Phoenix AZ | Folklore (steel string) = 1-3/4 Classical and Artist (nylon) = 1-7/8 | ||
Beal |
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Joined: January 2002 Posts: 14127 Location: 6 String Ranch | You sure on that Dave? I always thought that the folklore was 1 7/8, same as the 12 string. I could be wrong. Somebody go measure theirs. | ||
Jeff W. |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039 Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | my '93 folklore 6774 has 1 7/8 inch nut... | ||
Standingovation |
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Joined: June 2002 Posts: 6197 Location: Phoenix AZ | "OLD" folklore (and josh) were 1-7/8. Folklore LX is 1-3/4. At least according to O website. But heck, we all know the manufacturing tolerence is +/- 1/4 inch, right! Hey, if Al Gore had invented the internet 20 years earlier think how much fun we could have had checking up on the factory specs. Dave | ||
Jérôme |
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Joined: March 2004 Posts: 1388 Location: Paris/France | It's so hard for me to understand your units system!!! Why don't you use the metric system like everybody??? :D :D ;) According the first J.White brochure (1967), the fingerboard is 2 inches wide at the nut just like the original Classic. On another brochure (1968), the fingerboard at the nut is 1-7/8. Maybe there's a mistake in the first brochure??? J :) | ||
Slipkid |
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301 Location: south east Michigan | We'll have to send Jerome a tape measure. | ||
Standingovation |
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Joined: June 2002 Posts: 6197 Location: Phoenix AZ | Blame it on the brits. The only unit they got correct was "pint", but it's not really a pint, is it. And a pound note doesn't really weigh a pound. And how many stones do I weigh? Just remember the story of the three bears. Papa bear pick up the older Classical with the 2" nut and says "this neck is tooooo wide". Baby bear picks up an 05 Collector with god knows what nutwidth and says "this neck is toooo skinny". But Mama bear (and we all LOVE the Mama bear, isn't that right?) picks up an FD14 with a 1-3/4 nut and says "this neck is just perfect". But then the Big Bad Martin wolf crashes through the door, slits the bears throats, dismembers them and puts the body parts into the three tupperware containers and takes them back to the woods for dinner. Dave | ||
cliff |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842 Location: NJ | I suspect that Witko's recently dropped Acid and went to see "GrizzlyMan" . . . . | ||
Jeff W. |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039 Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Richard Thompson did the music for that film... | ||
cliff |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842 Location: NJ | Thank you, Roger Ebert . . . . | ||
moody, p.i. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15664 Location: SoCal | Actually, with this loving Mama Bear comment, I'm wondering if Witko isn't into the beastiality thing.... too many trips to the Netherlands.... | ||
Standingovation |
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Joined: June 2002 Posts: 6197 Location: Phoenix AZ | Actually, I think in the Netherlands beastiality is against the law. But unlike in the US, anal intercourse, prostitution and recreational drug use is not. Or, so I'm told. Dave PS - Wow, what a thread. From neck width to childrens fairy tales to anal intercourse. We may have finally hit the bottom. | ||
Waskel |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840 Location: closely held secret | I hope that pun wasn't intended... :eek: | ||
cliff |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842 Location: NJ | ". . to anal intercourse. We may have finally hit the bottom. . ." No. . . but obviously YOU have . . . . | ||
stephent28 |
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Joined: April 2004 Posts: 13303 Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | :D Oh that Witko ;) | ||
Jeff W. |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039 Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I knew we would get it in the end. | ||
Slipkid |
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301 Location: south east Michigan | Hey...watch that "we" thing pal. | ||
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