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Location: NJ | They must've opened a Starbuck's in Brainerd. ;) |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | :p :p :p
I guess you know Shotgun Red? :eek: |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | The Search Is OVER!!!
As many of you know, I have been searching, dreaming, scheming, wishing, praying, lookin, seekin, whinning, squeakin, foolin, droolin, after a USA Ovation 12. I am EXCITED and ELATED, to let it be related, that I now hold one in my hands!!!!
tr(better known as my bestest friend that lives in S.C.... O.K., the ONLY friend I have in S.C....O.K., perhaps one of the only friends I have anywhere!... I think were friends?!))boy, made me an absolutely sweet deal on his 1981 1615 PACEMAKER!!!
I received the guitar yesterday, and I absolutely LOVE IT!!! It is everything I expected a USA DEEPBOWL 12 would sound like, and the classic Ovation style is nothing short of stunning. It is like the long lost sister of my 1981 Legend, as their soundboards aged beautifully, and very simular in deep rich tone.
Good News:
The moment I picked a chord on the Pacemaker, I felt one with the guitar, and absolutely loved it's tone. Plays like a dream...and hey MEDIUM strings on a Norse(need a neck reset)man 12 string?! that's a first, and what a blessing!
Better News:
I plugged it in ... crisp,even,balanced,rich. I noted someone posted a few days ago that Pacemakers don't have much bass response... bass is very important to me, and I absolutely LOVE the bass on this particular guitar.
I can't express enough what an absolute joy it was (and will continue to be) to get to know "trboy", and working out the transaction. Mike's a class act. I have met so many great people on this board...well, add one more to that growing list!!!
If you want to see what this Pacemaker looks like, look in trboys gallery... you can LOOK, but you'll have to pry this sucker "...out of my dead cold hands" as Charleton Heston would say! I was up until 4:00 a.m. this morning goofing around with this guitar.
Life is good!!! Thanks to all of you that have been keeping an eye out for a good 12 for "ol Norseman. The search is over, and God willing, I will be playing this 12 (and loving it) unto the Lord for many many many years to come!!!
Thus, the smiley faces!
Norse(and thanks again trboy, the guitar is everything and more than I expected... now I feel guilty, rooting for the Patriots in the Superbowl... I'll have to get me a Carolina Panthers hat for sure !!!)man1 |
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Location: NJ | Y'know I kinda SUSPECTED that that's what was going on w/Norse, but I didn't wanna say anything in case it wasn't true.
CONGRATS, Norsey!!!!
Much Luck and Happiness with it.
You deserve it!!!
But I gotta admit . . .
. . . as HAPPY as I am for Norse, it's kinda "anti-climactic".
All of that "sexual tension" is now gone. :(
It's kinda like when Bruce Willis FINALLY "schtupped" Cybil Sheppard on "Moonlighting". It just wasn't the same after that.
Oh well, . . . I guess I can always just join the Taylor Board and listen to all of the endless quests for a "brilliant-sounding" Taylor . . . . like THAT'll ever happen!!!
Congrats again, Norse!!
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Location: SoCal | Congrats Norsey! I'm glad you found your 12 string, and I did go look at the photo. Beautiful guitar. Now you gotta post a pick of you with the photo. Of course we never be able to get a good look at the 12 string because the camera will have to be so far away in order to catch all of your smile! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Congrats on the new guitar. I'm sure that the 2 of you will be very happy together! Well, don't get TOO happy. ;)
Seriously, lots of luck with it. As someone who is still giddy over his new 12, I know just how you feel. |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Thanks guys, it has been a long time coming, but I can certainly attest to the saying "Good things come to those who wait".
Norse(my wife has been trying to sell me on that one for YEARS :( now I finally know what that means! ;) )man1 |
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Ah sure 'ya bet cha. Congratulations! Try to get a little enthusiastic next time you get a great guitar. |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | You know, I've been thinking of putting fresh strings on her, but I'm a little afraids my heart won't take it!
Better do this one step at a time... I'll get the strings next week! :D
Norse(it's like that feeling you get when you walk into a buffet after not eating for two days... giddy, a little light headed, don't know what to do first, it's all good, it aint goin anywhere, yet you know an uncontrolled binger is inevidable!)man1 |
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Location: SoCal | Norsey, if I may suggest, get coated strings. Slothead 12's are a bear to change and you'll want to put something on that will last. As to what kind, there are lots out there now. |
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Location: NJ | C'mon, Paul! He's in Minnesota in the middle of Winter . . . what ELSE does he have t'do?? |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Paul, I have the Elixers on my CS255. I think I will experiment with the coated D'Adarios...if I can perhaps sell my minivan to cover the cost!
Yea Cliff, it is getting to be a loooooooong winter up here! We are having "Spring Break" in our school district starting Monday... expected temperature is 5 degrees!
Norse(nothin like bakin in that warm springtime sun!)man1 |
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | HOw are the brass monkeys doing up there in MN? |
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Location: NJ | Does anybody want to know where that whole "brass monkey" thing came from?
. . . because I DO know . . |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | The ones in Nova Scotia are all eunuchs now.
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Well...let us in on it too. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Is it the Cannon balls and heat coefficient of dissimilar metals sea story? |
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Location: NJ | That's the very one! ;) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | That's a good one. You need to let the other know. The only caveat is you have say "Arrh" and "Matey" every couple of lines.
When your done we'll let them know what the "Head" on a ship is and why it's time to go when even the rats leave the ship. |
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mornin!
