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Location: South of most, North of few | A Chet Atkins Gibson. Got this one on a trade and it just showed up tonight. It's a 1990, and is in 9.5 shape. Never seen one like this, classical solid body. Pretty nice though.
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Location: NJ | How'zitt sound?? . . . |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Admittedly, being a member of "The Collective of the Clueless", are the thumbwheels for volume & tone? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Jim,
It looks great!!! Plugged in I'll bet it has a very warm sound.
I would love to hear it plugged in to my Roland AC 60.
It has understated elegance to it. |
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Location: Denmark | Congrats. Looks very nice indeed. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Now that's something you don't see everyday. Piezo pick up, I presume? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | A thin line acoustic with electrics? If this had steel strings, I'd be on it! Where's Dan Shafer and all of the other Viper lovers? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Joyful Noise:
Now that's something you don't see everyday. Piezo pick up, I presume? Yup, looks just like the Ovation saddle. And yes, the two wheels are volume and tone. I figured if nothing else, it should hold it's value very well.
( I wonder if it would hold steel strings?...hmmmm) |
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Location: Scotland | This Gibson Chet Atkins was a mass-produced version of a guitar custom-made for Chet by Kirk Sand of Laguna Beach. I used to have one, and there're pretty good, though I much prefer my nylon Viper. Later they did a Chet Atkins steel string version as well, which personally I didn't like at all, mostly because of the bland, generic piezo tone from the pickup and electronics
If I remember rightly, when these were first introduced Gibson were threatened with a lawsuit by Ovation over patent infringement on the pickup, which looked identical to the Ovation pickup. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Paul, does this mean I have a "lawsuit" Gibson, like the Tak/Martin debacle? :eek: (and thanks for the info on the origin of this thing) |
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Location: SoCal | Not quite right. This guitar was inspired by an idea Chet had for a solid body nylon string. The original was built by Haskell Haille under Chet's direction.
The Kirk Sand guitar was the basis for the Studio Classic, a very narrow body acoustic nylon string. From the early 90's until he retired, Chet played one of these (with the marijuana leaf inlay).
If you take a look at this link, you'll learn about both guitars, the CE and the Studio Classic.
Chet\'s guitars
Scroll up slightly from the link to read about the CE..... |
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Location: Scotland | I'll bow to Mr Moody's superior knowledge here. Paul (or Bill) I can't remember if I'm confusing the pickup patent infingement thing too, can you remember anything about that? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, we sued Gibson and made them change the pickup. The first go round it had 6 chrystals and 6 saddles. We made them change to a 1 piece saddle which got around the pattent. They've probably gone back to 6 by now.
This was in 83-84 timeframe. Pre Henry. |
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Location: NJ | how heavy is that sucker? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | The knowledge base on this forum continues to astound me! Not just Ovations and Adamas, but everything in between. Kudos gentlemen!! :D :D |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by alpep:
how heavy is that sucker? It's not light by any means, a bit heavier than my Tele. Hang it on a strap, and I'd bet you wouldn't want to do a long set with it. It's a sit down and play guitar. |
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Location: SoCal | Evidently, it's got a tone of sustain. One of the reasons Chet went to the Sand inspired guitar was that there was a lot less bass response when performing live..... |
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Location: Colorado | The suckers are heavy...I have one...I have used it for years...when pit work called for nylon strings and there was not the budget or space to put a nice studio condensor in front of the "insert your favorite classical here" guitar. It shines because of its simplicity - volume and tone only (Hmmm slotheads and other Adami). The electronics on mine are stealthily quiet. You can get a pile of gain out of the guitar. I have a link to a clip below...of Chet playing his...notice just the pure nylon tone - and how gently he is playing the strings - but the guitar does not sound thin at all. I never was much for Chet's singing...but he plays this simple yarn very well...extra credit to those who name the other stars in the clip. OK - Alpep talked to me once about the nylon Viper - I'll bite - someone tell me how good they are - and why - and where on earth could I find one to play. Here's the clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8590o8A4iU8
Enjoy
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Location: big island | walk of life |
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Location: SoCal | Mark Knopfler, Vince Gill... who else? |
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Location: Colorado | Two points to the PI from the left coast |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Always a treat to watch a master of their craft.
No guesses, Moody pegged the 2 I recognized.
Ooops edit: Jim, nice guitar! Enjoy!
Dave |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Someone needs to write all of this stuff down before we forget it again!
Nice grab TJ! |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Very nice one Jim! Where are you gonna put the martin sticker? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There's a black one on ebay now. Minimum bid of $700. Looks like the 6 piece piezo pickup. |
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Well, I have managed to acquire....
