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Location: SoCal | Hey, why would I want to be a member of any club that's low enough to accept me?
You hadda see that guitar. I don't need the extra 2 frets, it has the CA nut width, and the bridge is towards the middle of the body for a better acoustic sound. It was like it was built for me....... |
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Location: NJ | Just remember Moody . . . on your CountryArtist . . . I get "first dibs"!!
btw:
Cathy . . . the woman who works at the Facory in the Inlay Department, and went OUT of her way (at the last minute) to transport two llamas from her home to the Factory at the end of the day . . . just so that others may get a kick of seeing the utter look of surprise on MY face . . . was VERY MUCH a Nice Lady . . . .
. . . I kinda' doubt she'd wanna kiss you either . . . |
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Location: Georgia USA | Are we talking about the same lady, Cliff? See below...
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Location: NJ | uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . . . . . . no.
sorry.
(but I STILL wouldn't wanna kiss you, either . . .) |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Abendicum:
The lady who brought the Lamas to the parking lot after the tour was blonde haired and pressed the frets in the finger board, as her DAY JOB... She said she had owned the Lamas for 11 years...
The lady that did the Abalone inlay work was dark haired and did not have any Lamas... She had been working at Ovation for at least 15 yrs...
Ab Hmmm. Ab, this is the lady who brought the llamas...
Here is your fret presser -
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Location: SoCal | When I did the O tour, there was a lady installing and pressing the frets. |
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Location: closely held secret | Musta been a different shift. Here I just thought Ab spent too much time in the paint room. ;)
Phil might have a pic of the other presser, he was on your tour, Paul. |
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Location: Georgia USA | For future reference, anyone with a beard will be presumed to be a man. |
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Location: NJ | I believe Cathy works in both departments . . .
I think she predominantly works on the frets/inlays on the fingerboards, and she also works with the dark-haired woman in that other little room doing the abalone inlays from time-to-time . . . |
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Location: SoCal | "For future reference, anyone with a beard will be presumed to be a man."
Very un-P.C. I certainly would never have made that comment. |
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Location: closely held secret | You're from California. No one would expect you too. |
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Location: NJ | that is Chris
he splits his time between fret pressing and bowed instruments.
He often wonders if I draw a salary from Kaman because he sees me there so often. |
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| Paul - was the 12 fret nylon flat finger board? Did it have a cutaway? Does anyone have a picture of it?
Is that Folklore LX a contour bowl or a standard medium-depth roundback?
Somebody should have been taking notes here...... |
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| As the screen flashed up with my previous post I thought al's post said "he splits his time between fret pressing and bowel movements." |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by schroeder:
As the screen flashed up with my previous post I thought al's post said "he splits his time between fret pressing and bowel movements." Don't we all? |
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Location: closely held secret | btw, here's the British soccer champion delivering the death blow...
Note the binding flying off... |
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Location: SoCal | Schroeder:
It had a flat fingerboard, and a cutaway. New, inlaid rosette. I'm surprised that I didn't get a picture of it. |
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| I'm appalled you didn't get a picture of it.
Who's foot is Mr T. treading on in that pic?
And it's called football not soccer. |
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Location: closely held secret | Here we call it soccer. We already have a violent game called football, and it was confusing everyone to have two.
The foot is Kim Keller's, the miscreant who brought the guitar with the full intent of destroying it to the shock and horror of all present.
Actually it was quite funny. He had this Celeb he rescued from the dustbin with it's bridge lifting. He took it out at dinner and proceeded to drag it around by the headstock, 'accidently' drop it, throw it to various people, and generally abuse it while seeming oblivious to the looks he was getting. Finally he used it for kicking practice, with Moody taking the first shot. Unfortunately, he was wearing tenners and only succeeded in causing the top to begin separating from the body. It was Master Paul Templeman's mighty boot which pierced the body just below the bridge.
Brad (slipkid) decided to take the poor thing home for a decent burial. (actually he just wanted the preamp - op40 I believe.)
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Location: Waxahachie, Tx | I had some warranty work done by Kim on my 1771LX, At first when saw those pictures I thought it was just an employee doing a neck reset? |
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Location: south east Michigan | I took that smashed guitar home. I'm having a blast with it. BrianT's wife came out when I was unloading his luggage. I said I had something special to show her, then pretended to trip and drop the guitar on the sidewalk. I have shocked the bejezzus out of my wife and all 3 kids.
I'm a baaaaaad boy. |
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Location: closely held secret | Perfect, Brad. You said you'd do that. Hope you get out of traction soon. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Jasingram-
That is a brilliant illustration! As a former 'traditionaI artist' I can really appreciate the talent and time that went into that. You are very skilled and I hope you are getting paid well for your talent in some type of artistic career. Great job, and thanks for sharing the illustration on the site!
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Location: Kane, PA | Slipkid, love the story!!!!!!!
*Lisa* |
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | If you want to kick a guitar, please make it an MOB. :) |
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