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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Ya know, Paul, all I asked was if you put in for a 12 fret A.
You didn't have to go through all that.
Christ, I got GAS now.
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Location: SoCal | Spruce. If custom ordered, bearclaw. |
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| A customer`s White 1769 that he was suppose to give to his girl friend but never did because he loved it so much.. So he got her a different one .. hehehehe That guitar made every 12000$ martin sound stupid!!!!!! |
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Location: East Tennessee | My Favorite is , and always will be, my Elite 1758 12 string. It not only is a beautiful instrument to look at, It has a fantastic sound a it plays like a dream.
my second choice would be the 1124 Country Artist I foolishly traded in for another guitar.
I have celebrity CC059 to replace it but it is not nearly the instrument I had.
I have never had the opportunity to play an Adamas but sure would love to try the new U681T.
Those of you who are lucky enough to have one on order, please post pics and your feelings when you get yours.
I will wear a bib so as not to drool on my keyboard. :D |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | FD-14 Folklore Deluxe, hands down. I was lucky enough to play the one that Elderly Instruments had the summer of 2003. My wife commented on how good it sounded, but at that point, $1400 was out of the question for a guitar, unfortunately......
Roger |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Q, s/n 10. |
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| If thats the one I played where the hell did it go????? I aggree if it can be found??????
If its not it is one of the Qsssssssssssss???????? Be tough matching that 1769 |
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Location: south east Michigan | Cliff... a picture is worth a 1000 words but in this case I think I need about 1036 words. Come on...what's the story? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Brad,
If you had been following the posts everyday for the last 9 months instead of working so hard you would have read about Cliff's travels up the mountain and down to Floordah!
It's on loan, because deep down, seeing the smile on someone's face when they play a really cool guitar is at the heart of all this Ovation stuff we are doing! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That's a lot of plastic in one guitar (he he). |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Injection molding. It's come a long way. |
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Location: NJ | . . . Bill's loaned it to me under the condition that I come up twice a month and stand at the bottom of the mountain with an umbrella and a spackle bucket retrieving stray golf balls . . . :rolleyes:
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Actually, I'm babysitting it until the Spring-time drive Norph.
btw Bill;
My ongoing cloud-seeding project has seen continued success.
The weather "up here" continues to be extremely shitty . . . .
Better stay DownSouph where it's Nice&Warm . . .
. . . should be safe up here soon . . .
. . . . maybe August. :D |
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Location: NJ | . . . he really didn't say "plastic", DID he??
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Ooops, sorry. I thought I was on the other board. |
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Location: State College, PA | Hmmm - sorry - gotta give two answers:
My 1111-1 produces an incredibly strong, deep clear sound - you can really lay into it and it just keeps on giving out more tone - wonderful dynamic range and a vast available spectrum of tone colors. Its top has had a lot of time to have a lot of vibes put through it - extremely responsive. It takes some torque (physical finger strength) to bring out its best - but its sound will really move you. It's got a big, deep voice, with tons of headroom.
The action on my 94 Collector's Edition (#26) is to die for. Intonation is dead-on accurate. Wonderfully, light, silky smooth chord slides - you can just drag a finger or two as you move between positions and get all kinds of tasty transitions. There doesn't seem to be an upper limit to the speed you can achieve - it just never gets in your way. It's like the one extremely fine bicycle I ever owned - a Motobecane Grand Record - weighed 24 pounds set up for the road. If you wanted to go faster, you simply spun your feet faster and you went faster. Speed isn't really the issue, though: it's that total responsiveness to subtle changes in finger technique that gives the instrument its range. You can make it do anything - and as I said above, it simply never gets in your way.
So, in its own way, but different from the Old War Veteran, the '94 Collector's is an equally responsive machine. I just love them both!
(A strat right on the edge, pushing tubes into just the right level of saturation is also a fantastically responsive musical experience - you can make it do amazing things just with how you dance or how you dig in - but I reckon that's OT here. I just love them all....)
Never mind what I say - Just love your instruments and use them!
best wishes,
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | SO,
Is that Q, s/n 10 ? |
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Location: NJ | Dat's Q10. |
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| I heard Q9 was the good one. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well Cliffy,
Dare to compare....that old slothead you have versus the Q10. Desert island, unlimited booze, one woman, one guitar. Let's hear it with justification for choice! |
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| guinness, sharon stone & my yet to be built Country Artist.
sorry, you weren't actually asking me were you? |
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Location: NJ | Why do you guys insist on playing "Sophie's Choice" with guitars? :D
It'd be a DAMN tough call to make.
Both are awesome instruments.
Very similar, yet very different.
Bill had asked my impression on the Q a while back. I'd suggest doing a search and finding my original diatribe (to spare those who read it before). The very basic gist of it was that the SlotHead has a very loud, "full-out" sound. Just a lot of EVERYTHING. The Q has a bit more of a focused spectrum to it's sound. Kinda like hearing the SlotHead played with a well-tailored touch of EQ and compression applied to it. Surprisingly, the Q sounds "woodier" than you'd think that it'd sound. The SlotHead's neck is a bit chunkier, and is like playing a cello. The Q's neck is thinner, glass-slick, fast and sexy. The profile of the frets are a bit higher, making it feel a bit more "precise". As light as SlotHead is, in comparison the Q weighs NOTHING, and being that it's all so round, sleek, and slippery, it's a guitar that really has to played standing with a strap.
Being that they're both GREAT guitars, and both have a lot of similar (and different) features, it's close to impossible to say which "flavor" is better than the other. Put a Messerschmidt to my head, and MAKE me "choose" . . . I'd have to go with the SlotHead for two non-guitar reasons:
a.) The SlotHead and I have a long, convoluted "story" together.
3.) The Q is Bill's |
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Location: closely held secret | Messerschmitt? Why would someone threaten you with a WWII fighter? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The clean up would take forever. |
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Location: NJ | Didn't they make guns as well?
(like a machine-pistol)?
I've probably got the name wrong.
(f@ckin' sucks gettin' old) |
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