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Location: big island | thanks, mike!
i won't see or play the guitar until two days after the gathering. we are driving to illinois to spend a few days at my mom's. she wanted me to have a guitar to play up there, hear my wife sing and watch her hula. so though i will not be leaving home with a guitar, i will be returning with one. now i gotta figure if i should ship it home or let it fly with us? |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | You've got some good parents there to go with your good wife. Let it fly with you.
As Brad alluded to earlier in the thread - I will going home with one more guitar than I arrive with - also a Tak. I'm a sucker for planets and stars! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You'll love it.
And now for something completely different, I got my EF360S BG today, the solid indian rosewood, sitka top, one piece neck, cool tube preamp guitar today. After tweeking the setup(raising the action from 2 1/2 and 2, to 3 and 2 1/2) and putting on Medium strings it passes muster. I only spent an hour or so with it this afternoon but I think it's going to be really OK. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Randy, you really don't want to let it out of sight, do you? Are you going to trust anyone else to take care of it?
Tell you what, I will pick it up in Knoxville and personally deliver it to you on my next trip to the Big Island. Deal?! |
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Location: Tennessee | Bill, how does the 360 compare with the 340? Does the cool tube make a noticable difference over the line driver system? |
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Location: big island | aloha tim will get a chance to strum this one. i will have it in knoxville on the 16th. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
You've got some good parents there to go with your good wife. Let it fly with you. thank you, mike. i feel extra blessed today.
if i can take the guitar IN the plane with me, i would prefer to let it fly with me. if it has to go in the cargo hold, i would rather ship it. we have to change planes several times. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Cool, I may have my #47RI with me for you to make sing Randy. Still trying to figure out how much space we'll have in the car. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by BegginJM:
Tell you what, I will pick it up in Knoxville and personally deliver it to you on my next trip to the Big Island. Deal?! only if your next trip to the Big Island puts you there within ten minutes of my arrival back home on the 19th. :)
thanks for the consideration, jim. (even if it was full of ulterior motive) |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Aloha_Tim:
Cool, I may have my #47RI with me... i am sure hoping so tim. i'll get to strum a UTE in asheville and potentially a 47 in knoxville. if there's not enough room in the car, just put your daughter on greyhound ;) ;) (i'm so ashamed...) |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Randy,
I'm looking at mailing mine to Moody and picking it up in LA. However, I think I'm going to suffer from space allocation from the wife buying everything that says Hawaii on it in the last two weeks...as if she couldn't have done it over the last 7 years :( |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Randy - there will be a #47 in Asheville. |
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Location: big island | oh goodie. nevermind tim. cancel your daughter's bus ticket. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Aloha_Tim:
Randy,
I'm looking at mailing mine to Moody and picking it up in LA. However, I think I'm going to suffer from space allocation from the wife buying everything that says Hawaii on it in the last two weeks...as if she couldn't have done it over the last 7 years :( there was a red ultra guitar in a case in this space a few moments ago... :D
edit: oh...there it is in the sale forum. congratulations on it, Tim! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Just trying to help Tim and his daughter... I know how much of a pain long bus trips are :rolleyes: |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Sorry, cross-posted :rolleyes:
You need to play more and post less. You've been here a year less than me and have 1700 more post already. Go chase the kids already :p |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Just trying to help Tim and his daughter... I know how much of a pain long bus trips are Well, since she's like 5'8" or so and she has to sit in the back seat of a VW station wagon, I think the bus would be less painful.
And I wouldn't have to endure "..are we there yet, I gotta pee again, I'm hungry, DAD-turn down your music..." |
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Location: big island | it's cuz i work on the computer about 5 hours a day in between chasin' and feedin' kids. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | work??? oh yea...uhha...(me in 4 years :) ) |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | You know how those old washer women are; always running off at the mouth, err...keyboard. :)
It's odd that this post has surfaced again. I was just going to post about how very impressed I am with this guitar. It just never ceases to amaze me every time I play it.
It gets a minimum of an hour a day of my hell time and it is opening up beautifully. There's been talk of the volume being somewhat less than a dread but I'm finding as time goes by it has gained steadily on my Custom Balladeer to the point where they are now very close, from behind anyways. I really need to get somebody else to play them both for me so I can get out in front to hear what is being projected.
What a joy to play, pretty much sums it up.
Randy you are in for the treat of your life, enjoy it! :)
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Bobbo, I haven't plugged it in yet and I left the 340 in Fla so it will be a while for the comparison. I would say that it probably comes down to the difference between mahogony and rosewood for the two. You played the 340 I think, the 360 has many of the same characteristics, the growl of the bass strings and good cut of the treble.
If you're thinking about a BG 340 or 360 I'd say get one with a cool tube. It adds a little weight but gives you control of volume and tone at the guitar and a tuner. (a small side note, if you travel with a cool tube, take out the battery pack in transit, the weight of it can crack the sides) The 75 doesn't have this but you get over that real quick since it's such a brilliant genius guitar. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Thought I'd jump in here to ask if anyone owns or has tried the Takamine TF250SMC12 model...
I'm in the market for a 12 string, I currently own a ENV340SC (I guess the model numbers changed since this one was made?), I really enjoy this guitar!
I went to a guitar workshop herer in Fort Worth a little while ago put on by Brad Davis (playing a Takamine, I believe his is a special edition, just has the "T" on the headstock) and sponsored by a local shop. I picked up a catalog and a "Guitar Models 2006" insert and the TGF250SMC12 just keeps calling my name. I like the flame maple back.
The local shop had some demo guitars at the workshop and the only 12-string they had to play was the "G" series.
I'm sold on the cool tube!
Of course I'm open to "O" suggestions (I'll start another topic of that discussion).
One BIG deciding factor is that I have a store credit card for the local shop :D and the owner can order any Tak model I want to get.....
Anybody want to post a link the the Takamine forum you guys are refering to...........
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Location: Tennessee | Thanks, Bill. I liked that 340. I'm thinking I need a mahogany guitar. I was leaning towards the direct line driver system but sounds like cool tube is the way to go. Tuner? Who needs a tuner? :) Mauvais Beal? |
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Location: NJ | sssssshhhhhhhh
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Holy crap Tak-man. In the blur of this past week I almost forgot this little gem. Oh my my, WHAT a great guitar.
I'm pretty tapped right now, but this one is high on the "to be obtained" list. Just a beautiful sounding, playing and looking instrument. It's damn near identical to one of my martins, but seriously I think it sounds way better for a lot less money.
Why couldn't I have been born rich instead of talented ???
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