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Beal
Posted 2006-10-06 9:34 AM (#237617 - in reply to #237592)
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If you have to ask the cost, you can't probably afford it.
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Captain Lovehandles
Posted 2006-10-06 9:39 AM (#237618 - in reply to #237592)
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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.
Posted 2006-10-06 10:12 AM (#237619 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 10:16 AM (#237620 - in reply to #237592)
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Good point, Paul.
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2006-10-06 10:29 AM (#237621 - in reply to #237592)
Subject: Re: What has this site cost you?


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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
Posted 2006-10-06 10:32 AM (#237622 - in reply to #237592)
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Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Then there are those motorcycle guys.
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edensharvest
Posted 2006-10-06 10:46 AM (#237623 - in reply to #237592)
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John, where on earth did you find that one?
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Waskel
Posted 2006-10-06 10:57 AM (#237624 - in reply to #237592)
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I picked it up in a Galaxie far, far away. A '62 convertible, I think.
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Melmoth
Posted 2006-10-06 11:03 AM (#237625 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 11:15 AM (#237626 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 11:25 AM (#237627 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 11:46 AM (#237628 - in reply to #237592)
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Originally posted by edensharvest:
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...
And with all that stuff in there, there's places to hide 8 more!
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fillhixx
Posted 2006-10-06 12:05 PM (#237629 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 1:25 PM (#237630 - in reply to #237592)
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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.
Posted 2006-10-06 2:02 PM (#237631 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 2:46 PM (#237632 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 3:34 PM (#237633 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 4:51 PM (#237634 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 5:26 PM (#237635 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-06 5:27 PM (#237636 - in reply to #237592)
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Originally posted by fillhixx:
Just today I traded and old drum machine for a bunch of stuff including a ukelele.
There's counseling for that kind of thing. :D
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Jeff W.
Posted 2006-10-06 5:29 PM (#237637 - in reply to #237592)
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Originally posted by fillhixx:
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!
friggin' witko.
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Melmoth
Posted 2006-10-06 9:39 PM (#237638 - in reply to #237592)
Subject: Re: What has this site cost you?


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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
Posted 2006-10-09 10:52 PM (#237639 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-10 12:00 AM (#237640 - in reply to #237592)
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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
Posted 2006-10-10 1:55 AM (#237641 - in reply to #237592)
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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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