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Location: Upper Left USA | Official OFC Geosyncronous Asian Digital Photographer, Version 1.1???
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Location: closely held secret | If only we could find and Asian photographer with a New York accent and a GPS - but knows how to use it.
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Location: NJ | an EggRoll. |
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an EggRoll. :D :D |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Hey Weas, we all saw the before pictures, so I'm sure we all want to know what all the details are of what work was performed and what was replaced and what remains original. And of course, good pictures!
Congratulations and I can't wait to hear all the reports about how it sounds! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Semi-within Topic - I understand they made a new/old top for this one.
Which means a 1537 reissue is an achievable event!
Please talk quietly amongst yourselves now... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I demand a post with before and after pictures. Weaser, we were all glad you took the plunge and decided to restore this one to it's former glory. Mine came from the famous adoption agency, after a strange call out of the blue from some guy named Bruce, who I didn't know was Noah's real name, in which we (mostly Bruce) talked about all sorts of stuff. I've often wondered if case workers who check on families about to adopt a kid do as thorough a job of getting to know the prospective parent as Bruce did with me. Thanks again Bruce. This is a wonderfully strange bunch. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | As an adoptive parent, I can honestly say there's no comparison between the two, Mark, but I understand the question. ;) And pics galore with be coming but nowhere near soon enough for me! |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Originally posted by MWoody:
Semi-within Topic - I understand they made a new/old top for this one. The 1537 top has always intrigued me. It appears to me to have a tapered plywood construction for just the upper third of the top (the area around the epaulets) that is glued to the solid spruce, which appears to be bare for the remaining two thirds. It's as if they were trying to achieve a stiffening of the upper soundboard with a normal resonance at the bottom.
Whatever the actual construction or why it was employed, one thing is for sure, it sure does have a terrific sound. |
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Location: big island | i have instructed stellarjim not to ship the 1537-4 to me until the temperature climbs up to the mid to upper 30's where he lives. it was most difficult to type those words but i want to be cautious.
in looking at the photos above, is the fact that a starbucks (or similar) card can slide between the fretboard and the top a good sign or a not-so-good sign? aren't some of the models made so that the fretboard does not contact the soundboard? |
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I hid a valuable little item in that 1537 before selling it to StellarJim. I don't think he ever found it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Ewww. Might be why he sold it. |
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Location: big island | okay. you guys are scaring me now. wait, you did call it "valuable"...hmmm...
well, i just got an email from stellarjim that he shipped my guitar today before receiving my email asking him to hold off. he thinks all will be well. |
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No problem.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There is a gap under the fretboard, Lanaki, so don't panic and superglue it down. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I wasn't entirely joking. We've seen them glued and screwed down. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | And you can see that Woody's/Weaser's had a shim fairly nicely made and inserted. As far as I know all of the 1537's were made with the floating fretboard. Time and environmental conditions take their toll so it's not unusual to see these on ebay with the fretboard glued or screwed down, supposedly to fix a buzzing when the fretboard warped or came into contact with the soundboard.
On Weasers, the shim was nicely made and it may have been inserted in order to allow the use of the frets above the 14th. With the floating fretboard those notes tend to sound muted.
I'm not sure how much having the floating fretboard increases the vibration of the top but it is reasonable that it is at least part of why they sound so good. But you do kind of lose the usefullness of the frets above the 14th. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | WOW!!!
I guess I haven't been keeping in touch with the OFC board as often as I should ... I read a while back that you've been wanting a 1537, which were the reason behind why you were selling your guitars. I never knew that something special was going on all along.
Congrats on your new guitar Weaser!! and I'm glad to see great camaraderie with members, in this virtual on-line musical family. |
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