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brainslag
Posted 2007-12-20 12:51 PM (#69489 - in reply to #69439)
Subject: Re: Your LAST guitar????


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Kind of a silly question. If you do end up on a deserted island, you'll have whatever you carried on the boat (or plane), or whatever dead passengers guitar floated ashore with you.

Is there a crate of strings with it? If not, nylons will last longer (except the wound strings), but not forever... and would be better used as fishing line.

If I could take my time to plan for a future banishment to a desert island, well... A hand laid bowl, carbon graphite top, 12 string urelite neck (for 12 or wideneck 6 string playing), and whatever strings would last the longest in a hot humid salty climate.

...oh, and if Shania was the only other survivor from the boat, I guess I would have to deal with that. :D
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dobro
Posted 2007-12-20 2:29 PM (#69490 - in reply to #69439)
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Actually, the spirit of the question is: If you had to give up collecting and trading to settle for one guitar FOREVER to cherish and to hold etc. Which? The Island scenario, I agree, is a stupid distraction.

You answered well but, what is a "hand laid bowl"?
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moody, p.i.
Posted 2007-12-20 2:33 PM (#69491 - in reply to #69439)
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Would the term "masturbatory" bowl be better?
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NostrAdamas
Posted 2007-12-20 3:26 PM (#69492 - in reply to #69439)
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Oh the humor never ceases!
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Steve
Posted 2007-12-20 3:33 PM (#69493 - in reply to #69439)
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..and now the question is 'what one guitar would you take into the gutter' with you?... :rolleyes: ;)
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Waskel
Posted 2007-12-20 3:43 PM (#69494 - in reply to #69439)
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Someone else's. Maybe one of Paul's.
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moody, p.i.
Posted 2007-12-20 3:49 PM (#69495 - in reply to #69439)
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One of Dave's Martins.....
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bvince
Posted 2007-12-20 4:12 PM (#69496 - in reply to #69439)
Subject: Re: Your LAST guitar????



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1581-8 ... mainly because if I lost contact with the rest of the world and needed to get back, all I'd have to do his play hard and everyone within a 500 mile radius would hear it and come to investigate.
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2007-12-20 4:46 PM (#69497 - in reply to #69439)
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I'm still trying to get past Shania and hand laid.
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edensharvest
Posted 2007-12-21 12:30 AM (#69498 - in reply to #69439)
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Many here would question why you're trying to get past that...

Back on topic, of any guitar I've ever played I'd have to say either an Adamas 1680 (or Ute, either way) or a McPherson MG 5.0 Adirondack Spruce/Tasmanian Blackwood...because that's what you do in the islands... :cool:
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Old Man Arthur
Posted 2007-12-21 12:51 AM (#69499 - in reply to #69439)
Subject: Re: Your LAST guitar????



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Originally posted by bvince:
1581-8 ... mainly because if I lost contact with the rest of the world and needed to get back, all I'd have to do his play hard and everyone within a 500 mile radius would hear it and come to investigate.
They'd come to tell me to be Quiet!

The Coolest thing I've played was a Blue Adamas at the PNW Mini Gathering...
The Coolest thing I've own is my 1115-HB...
But my 112-4* is down-right dependable, and is played the most!
But I doubt any of these are my LAST guitar... I'm still shopping...

*[courtesy of Scott W. Englund... Long-time-no-read]
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brainslag
Posted 2007-12-21 8:28 AM (#69500 - in reply to #69439)
Subject: Re: Your LAST guitar????


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Originally posted by dobro:

You answered well but, what is a "hand laid bowl"?
The way they made the bowls 'back-in-the-day', where the luthier hand lays the fiberglass cloth into the bowl mold. The modern ones are some kind of plastic injected into the mold. The fiberglass is makes for a much lighter body.

Well, leaving behind the desert island scenario (good bye Shania..) of the guitars I own, it would be the U681T-12, so as to double as a 6 or 12 string.
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benwantland
Posted 2007-12-22 12:03 PM (#69501 - in reply to #69439)
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I hate to say it, but it would probably be the one in the middle...

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Mark in Boise
Posted 2007-12-22 12:22 PM (#69502 - in reply to #69439)
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Ben, since your profile said you were into girls, guitars and getting drunk, I figured you must be from Iowa City. Went to law school there, got married there, bought my Custom Balladeer from there and the inlaws from Cedar Rapids are visiting us now. The Hawkeyes are pretty much sucking pond water this year.

Law School class of 1978
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benwantland
Posted 2007-12-22 1:29 PM (#69503 - in reply to #69439)
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haha, not from Iowa City, but I am a three-time dropout of the fine institution there... I love that town.
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guiguite
Posted 2007-12-22 4:42 PM (#69504 - in reply to #69439)
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No doubt, my #47 !
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2007-12-22 5:49 PM (#69505 - in reply to #69439)
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Originally posted by benwantland:
haha, not from Iowa City, but I am a three-time dropout of the fine institution there... I love that town.
Sounds like you didn't let studying get in the way of the girls, guitars and getting drunk.
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