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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by g8r:
Congrats! (I'm jealous). Me too. ;) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Congrats AJ: Very nice! Excuse me now while I get a tissue: (sniff, sniff, sniffle)...lol |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Congratulations AJ. Too bad you didn't pick that git up on the way TO the PNW gathering.....'course then I mighta scooped IT instead of the O history book.
Which will be in the mail this week. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I had that guitar for about 24 hours. Not a bad instrument at all....... More than enough time to swap it out for an OCF-FRG.
AJ, You'd better check that thing out closely. The "new strings so he could A-B it with his OFC slothead" story is a classic Moody ruse.
Oh well, If you fell for it, you'll just have to come back and visit again soon to get your "real slothead". :p :D :p :D |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Moody, you are one of at least three OFC members blessed with the opportunity to A/B an original slothead against its OFC offspring. I had No. 43 along with 5/12 in my bandroom for a while, Dave has one of each, and now you. Didn't you folks in Southern California have a group of them as well last year some time at a get-together? Not sure if there have been others. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | This is a cool story. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I think there is some variations in sound among the original slotheads. after all each one was pretty much a science fair project. I've played 8 of them. To MY ears Cliff's No.54 is the best. I played another one which was very "average". The other 6 fall somewhere in between (with my No.42 of course a close second to Cliff's, IMHO).
The real fun is comparing the originals to the reissues. Sound aside, the original slothead is just way, way cooler and more comfortable than the reissue. Warts and all. It's like a well worn faded pair of tattered old Levi's compared to a brand new pair of 501's right off the shelf. Yeah they're both bluejeans. End of similarities.
At least to my ears - the 47 Reissue sounds superior unplugged to the OFC Guitar. Sorry but it does at least in may case. I've got to attribiute that to the solid saddle of the 47RI. But on the flip side, the 47RI is way uglier and can't hold a candle plugged in to the OFC Guitar. Plus the 47RI neck is too skinny.
But comparing a RI to the original gets very fuzzy because my ears are jaded by the fact that No.42 is a piece of history and cost me 2.5 times what the reissue did. Well of COURSE the original sounds better. But does it really?
The other small fact that gets lost is that there are quite some physical differences among the original slotheads. Everyone is a snowflake. And as good of a reproduction that the RI is, there are actually quite some differences between the origials and the reissues. Paul picked up on this during his baby sitting and suggested that maybe we do a real detailed comparison some day for people to reference.
But anyway you slice it, the originals, the 47RI, the OFC guitar and some of the variations that people have custom ordered are from the very, very top of the guitar foodchain.
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Location: south east Michigan | James... I'm glad to hear the you have ended up with an original slothead. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
I wonder if the sound swirls around the bowl in the opposite direction down there. |
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| AJ you crazy Aussie! your creating one hell of an Ovation collection and in a record amount of time too. Congrats that will be an impressive group photo, acoustics & electrics. Always wanted me one of them slotheads.
Enjoy.
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| How can anything be safe in a country/continent that has more deadly creatures than anywhere else on the planet? And I'm not just talking about muzza's beard. |
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| But, congratulations on grabbing a piece of history. It must be a great feeling, and a great sound. :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Congratulations |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | schroeder's right, (might want to mark this date down!) pound for pound there are more ways to die in Oz and thingies that want to kill you than anywhere else on the planet.
say, AJ...... y'give any thought to your estate? As far as where the gits should go?
Buddy.
Mate.
Pal.
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by fillhixx:
schroeder's right, (might want to mark this date down!) pound for pound there are more ways to die in Oz and thingies that want to kill you than anywhere else on the planet.
say, AJ...... y'give any thought to your estate? As far as where the gits should go?
. Time to let you all in on a little secret. Australia's perfectly safe. We just make up all that stuff about dangerous animals to keep the wimps out. Think about it, if salt water crocodiles were really dangerous, wouldn't there be video footage somewhere of someone being eaten by a croc? Go to far North Queensland and go for a swim anywhere* it's perfectly safe.
As for AJ's will, we don't allow foreigners or cats to be beneficiaries. It just gets too silly.
(*as long as "anywhere" is a public pool or 100 miles inland) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Yeah, tell it to Steve Irwin.
....or Harold Holt for that matter.
(how many places could lose a Prime Minister and nobody heard about it?)
Not to mention the lovely collection of snakes (br rr rr) like the Inland Taipan |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "...your creating one hell of an Ovation collection and in a record amount of time too..."
Yeah...Jim's doing...ok ;) |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | AJ, very cool! Hope you had a great visit to the states, you sure took home the ideal memento! It was great to meet you and Deb in Mt. Vernon. Thanks for the goody bag. How was Vegas? |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | David,
Vegas was great, the slots were not kind to me but the Slothead was.
We had the best time in the US, made an even richer experience by the opportunity to meet some of you guys.
Thanks to all.
I know it has been said before but this is the best guitar forum on the planet.
I was really hoping that I could have had the Slothead at the NW Jam but circumstances didn't allow that.
Y'all have an open invitation to visit "Down Under" anytime.
Thankyou Friends
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Y'all have an open invitation to visit "Down Under" anytime. The 'O' History book is in the mail.
Don't be surprised if it's in a 210lb shipping crate.... |
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| Originally posted by fillhixx:
Don't be surprised if it's in a 210lb shipping crate.... ...with airholes |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Who you calling an airhole!?! |
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| ...and it's outta the park! |
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Location: Brisbane Australia |    
Thought I'd add a couple of pics of #45's new home
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Location: SoCal | Jim, you ever change the strings? Whatcha put on it and what kinda difference did it make? |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Not as yet Paul. |
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Slothead safely Downunder
