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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Slipkid:
It's here. The guitar or the tracking number? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Let the Tour Begin!!!!! |
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Location: south east Michigan | The guitar is here.
Right next to my desk.
I have not tuned it up yet.
More to follow. |
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Location: SE Michigan | Well Jeff, I played your guitar tonight. Brad (Slipkid) brought it over to my house. It's quite a piece of work. Looks like the entire back is one solid block of mahogany that was carved into a bowl shape. I wish I had a larger set of calipers to measure the bowl thickness.
At first I thought it was an Ovation neck but then we saw subtle differences in the shape of the headstock and the laminated overlay which were different. Brad told me it was made by a luthier in the Phillipines. It looks like he was quite a craftsman. The shape of the bowl looks like an exact duplicate of a Ovation shallow bowl. I can only imagine a determined asian woodworker, limited to hand tools and maybe a band saw laboring to duplicate an Ovation. He came pretty close. The guitar has tons of character and certainly makes me respect the efforts of it's maker. In all fairness though it sounds like a shallow bowl, but it really sounds decent when you get right in front of it, a trait of most Ovations.
Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | hey Brian,
Very glad you got your hands on it. I too, really appreciate the work that went into it. If folks had the chance to see the luthier's shop (ehh, hut) they would verrry impressed. I wouldn't call it modern...maybe "Bronze Age"
As stated, it ain't gonna win any sound awards...I was travelling pretty extensively in Asia at the time and playing in my hotel rooms and such, so a "not so loud" guitar was perfectly suited for my use.
Throw a (sound hole) pick-up in it and try it out...It has never been amped in any fashion!!! |
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Location: south east Michigan | For anyone in the area, the famous wooden roundback will be on display at the Huber-Breese open mic night tommorrow, Friday the 9th. 8:00 p.m. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | tips welcomed. |
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Location: NJ | ". . tips welcomed . ."
Reminds me of a girl from high school . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ahhh...Theresa.
...didn't know she got up North Jersey too.... |
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Location: NJ | "Just the Tip" Terri . . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | yep, she went by "Terri"
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Location: south east Michigan | I tuned up and played the wooden roundback two nights ago at BrianT's house. Picked it up over two days later...still in tune. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | did you plug her in?? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Well...she was an object of great interest at the open mic last night. No, sorry to say she did not make it to the stage. But while I was up there I spoke of her history and future. She was passed around the crowd and admired for, as Jeff says, "what she is".
I heard a couple people say, "I didn't know Ovation made a wooden bowl!". |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | not even a week out and it's already living a more interesting life than me.... |
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Location: closely held secret | That happened as soon as you put it in the box. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Yeah, it has been awhile since i was in one. |
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Location: south east Michigan | She did not travel much today.
Just a short walk out to the seawall for a photo opp. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | As folks get this in hand, give a thought as to what kind of electronics you think would work well, if installed in it....
post your thoughts here...I might make a project of it when (if ever) she returns to Front Royal. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I re-enforced the box. It's boxed and ready to go out Monday. I'll throw in a copy of the "traveling trinket" that I send along with the book.
As the roundback travels, and with Jeffs okay, what the guitar could really use is some better tuners. A couple people who played it made that comment. Maybe someone has an extra set.
Also, I have had a lot of fun. I have shown it around and told it's story. People have thought it was a very cool thing to do.
A disposable camera is going with it. I have some interesting digital pics to post but I am having all kinds of 'puter trouble. I can't get my almost 9 year old system off of 16-bit color. Can't find my a Adobe Photo Deluxe disc to reload it. Kodak disc will not open. My new system will be up & running on the 26th. Then...look-out! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Brad,
Thank you for showing her a good time and taking such good care of her. Great first stop on the tour and I will eagerly await the pics till you are up and running with the new system...wouldn't you know it, I will be on the road then until the 30th.
You and the others are right, the tuners are crap, but they were the best we could get our hands on at the time (remember this guitar was made in Lapu-Lapu city on the island of Mactan, though famous as the island where Magellean justifiably met his violent demise, I defy anyone to find it on a map)... If anyone feels inclined to put other tuners on, I will reimburse for the cost of the tuners...but please, Weaverlys are not necessary!
Again, Brad thanks. I am pleased that you enjoyed her stay and hope she spreads a smile or two along her future travels. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Coming to Denver soon! :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | Jeff...Was the bridge an off the shelf item or do you think it was also handmade? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Brad,
Honestly, I could not say for certain.
I do believe, as with the neck/ headstock, it was handmade. These guys have a freakish talent for imitation. That's a compliment.
Funny thing...and for those who have not been able to travel in Asia...Philippino (Filipino) muscians are in great demand all over Asia. They have an uncanny ability to imitate western music which is very popular, not only amoung tourists. More than once I was in complete disbelief as I listened to a cover of John Denver, the Eagles , Fleetwood Mac etc... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | :D More than once I was in complete disbief
Now that would be cool to see. |
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