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Beal![]() |
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Joined: January 2002 Posts: 14127 Location: 6 String Ranch | If you have to ask the cost, you can't probably afford it. | ||
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Captain Lovehandles![]() |
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Joined: July 2005 Posts: 3410 Location: GA USA | You're right. And most of these guitars I don't even bother to ask. But at least I'll get to play some of them at the gather. | ||
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moody, p.i.![]() |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15674 Location: SoCal | I don't know if "what has this site cost you" is the right question. Maybe it should be "what has this site taught me". And the answer to that would be "the value of good friends". | ||
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Waskel![]() |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840 Location: closely held secret | Good point, Paul. | ||
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Mark in Boise![]() |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12759 Location: Boise, Idaho | There are a lot of other obsessions that don't have the benefits. One of my former partners had to give up his country club membership when he got another job. $20,000 initiation fee down the drain, and probably $300 per month for a few years, plus clubs. I know he never played enough golf to justify it. I read an article a couple years ago about how country clubs were cutting the entry fees to entice members. It quoted some guy in Florida who said the reduced $70,000 entry fee was a "no brainer." Then there are those motorcycle guys. | ||
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Waskel![]() |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840 Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mark in Boise: Then there are those motorcycle guys. ![]() | ||
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edensharvest![]() |
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Joined: March 2006 Posts: 1634 Location: Chehalis, Washington | John, where on earth did you find that one? | ||
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Waskel![]() |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840 Location: closely held secret | I picked it up in a Galaxie far, far away. A '62 convertible, I think. | ||
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Melmoth![]() |
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Joined: February 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Fairfax, VA | This site has cost me my firm resolve that once the deacon is fixed, I don't need another guitar. Because clearly, once the deacon is fixed I need to start saving up for an upper-end roundback, maybe an Adamas...now to convince the love of my life that there's room for another guitar in the apartment. | ||
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edensharvest![]() |
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Joined: March 2006 Posts: 1634 Location: Chehalis, Washington | I have a three bedroom apartment with two kids in it, and enough stuff to fill a 2000 square foot house (which is what we moved from), and I've found room for 8 guitars easily so far... | ||
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tdeej![]() |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 286 Location: North Idaho | No costs that I would ever admit to. All the people I have met thru this site have been absolutely terrific. The information and 'diss' information posted afford me great therapy. I only hope this doesn't lead back into motorcyles. | ||
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Waskel![]() |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840 Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by edensharvest: And with all that stuff in there, there's places to hide 8 more!I have a three bedroom apartment with two kids in it, and enough stuff to fill a 2000 square foot house (which is what we moved from), and I've found room for 8 guitars easily so far... | ||
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fillhixx![]() |
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Joined: November 2005 Posts: 4832 Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The chance to act out to an accepting audience? Worth the embarrasment. Finding out what my Thunderhead was? Worth it. GAS for a Jerry Reed Thunderhead? Now THAT's gonna hurt, one day... | ||
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Capo Guy![]() |
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Joined: December 2004 Posts: 4394 Location: East Tennessee | 1997 Collectors Model : $450 1624 Country Artist : $450 Misc Items:(You said I couldn't play without): $100 Learning about Guitars in general and Ovations, Find a bunch of really nice people : PRICELESS | ||
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moody, p.i.![]() |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15674 Location: SoCal | You know, I don't think I can actually put a numeric price on what this site has cost me.... after all, how can you put a number of bankruptcy? | ||
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Mark in Boise![]() |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12759 Location: Boise, Idaho | I just realized I forgot to add in all the guitar hangers, stands, books and another amp when we did the inventory last night. If I add up all the hours "lost" that I could have been working and multiply it by my hourly rate, it's probably a hundred grand or so. But I probably would have just wasted that time on something else. I could have done the same analysis with all the time spent raising the kids. Another trade off I'd gladly make again. It helps us to be well-rounded like our guitars. | ||
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fillhixx![]() |
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Joined: November 2005 Posts: 4832 Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Just today I traded and old drum machine for a bunch of stuff including a ukelele. Something I NEVER would have done without exposure to this group... Now, about that banj-O! | ||
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Jewel's Mom a/k/a Joisey Goil #1![]() |
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 1017 Location: Budd Lake, NJ | The site has saved me much more than it has cost me: 3 instruments happily purchased from trustworthy people at reasonable prices, a blessing to my purse; tons of information that I didn't have to search for, a savings of my time; grins, chuckles, and laughs without measure, an aide to my sanity. --Karen and the crew: 1111-4 "Gertrude;" CE868LX-4 "Jewel;" Viper 1271 "Blanca;" maple Tornado "Nonnie;" Guild D-50 "Gilda;" American Strat "Ivory;" Steinberger Spirit 5-string bass "Sugar;" Galiano mandolin "Plink;" Vega 5-string banjo "Twang;" fiddle of uncertain antecedents "Shriek" | ||
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MWoody![]() |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13996 Location: Upper Left USA | The knobs for Bianca (Blanca?) are in the hands of calm, well aiming Government Workers and should help her feel a little more refreshed when their on. Just another service of the OFC - thre networking for parts! | ||
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Capo Guy![]() |
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Joined: December 2004 Posts: 4394 Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by fillhixx: There's counseling for that kind of thing. :DJust today I traded and old drum machine for a bunch of stuff including a ukelele. | ||
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Jeff W.![]() |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039 Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by fillhixx: friggin' witko.Just today I traded and old drum machine for a bunch of stuff including a ukelele. Something I NEVER would have done without exposure to this group... Now, about that banj-O! | ||
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Melmoth![]() |
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Joined: February 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Fairfax, VA | Busted, modified weird looking guitar found in a pawn shop when I was 19: $150 New pickguard, knobs and switches from Ovation: $65 Replacement pickups from Miles: $210 Backplate from ebay: $51 Sundry desoldering, resoldering, and tinkering: 2 small burns Finally hearing the guitar I knew 15 years ago was special the way it was meant to sound: PRICELESS | ||
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beatlejuice53![]() |
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Joined: May 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Indiana | When I joined the OFC, I believe I had just 3 O's. I now have 12 including 2 Adamas' and a "Book Elite". The cost will take a while to recollect.Maybe not overly impressive except that I am a bass player. Bill | ||
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Mark in Boise![]() |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12759 Location: Boise, Idaho | Add another $900 for Randy's 30th Anniversary CL. No more "must haves" for now, but that will probably change in the next few minutes. | ||
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tdeej![]() |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 286 Location: North Idaho | Congratulations, Mark. I've always thought the CL's have great looking fretboards and a real value for what they are going for. | ||
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