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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Just so I can start saving up my nickels.....
Estimated price range and availability of the OFC guitar that Al spoke so secretivly of????? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | To quote CNN: "Details are sketchy at this time".
My estimate is 1) it will NOT be cheap and 2) it WILL be worth waiting for.
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Location: SoCal | from what I have deduced:
won't be cheap but less than a custom order
will probably require a deposit so the factory knows how many to make...12,20,50? probably less than 20, one time offer for OFC.
as to the finished model, check out all of the postings made several months back. not hard to figure out.
worth it? yep! believe this one Al will keep for his own. |
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | Sounds like I had better schedule a trip to the marriage counselor! She quit understanding after 4 new guitars this year. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | They never understand,
but don't you EVER say anything about the shoes or whatever in her closet....... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | How many Marriage Counselors does it take to change a set of strings?
One, but the strings have to really WANT to change! |
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Location: NJ | ". . but don't you EVER say anything about the shoes . . ."
Sorry Bill, but I'd quit THERE if I were you . . .
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by cwk2:
They never understand,
but don't you EVER say anything about the shoes or whatever in her closet.......
Werd, d00d.
My wife has (at least) three pairs of black dress shoes that I swear are identical except for the lug pattern on the sole. Just today she told me that she *needs* a new pair of black shoes. She had to buy a whole new wardrobe, being as she's in the family way. Then I see the two piles of 'old' maternity clothes on her 'other' dresser.
But, you and cliffy are right...can't go there. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | "Discretion is the better part of valor" AND "You gotta sleep, sometime". |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It is the right thing for us not to go there. I don't want to go there.
Now there was a Marketing VP that used to work for Cayman who ws full of great sayings, one comes to mind now. Equity and reciprocity. That's all we ask. |
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| I think my wife just gave up? She understands the music thing for me and is supportive but the cash that is involved with the guitars and equipment we seem to like, and need, can be extensive! She loves the Music and I have the Drums, Keyboards and Bass/acoustic in place. (Three of us now are actually playing or parts to "Heart of the Sunrise" pefectly and we have Hold Out your Hand Down!!!) and I am finishing a sound proof Music room in the second floor of the Garage I built this summer. It's a better place to hide the guitars than having them all hanging on the walls of our bedroom! So far I am lucky but I do see the Lawyers telephone number on the speed dial ??????????? Happens she likes YES and Pink Floyd. IF not I'd be in trouble Big Time!
Al when will you be able to spill the beans on this OFC guitar? I'm so far gone with guitar purchases now one more won't matter anymore!
This GAS problem I have will ultimatly make her and the kids rich someday anyway! |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | As I read this I'm sneaking another one into the house.... My comment about too many guitars is that .... "hey I could have worse habits.... like strip bars!".... then she understands this is "not so bad"...
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | I've got the answer!!!
Reverse psychology!! (It figures because I work at a psychiatric hospital)
We tell our spouses/ significant others that Al got a great deal on guitar strings. Lets say a lot of 3000(1 for each OFC member) gross sets of EXP's,Adamas etc. They all come with expiration dates and must be used before a specific date. In order to take full advantage of these strings, they can only be used on AN AUTHENTIC OFC GUITAR
:cool: :rolleyes: With this in mind it is of the utmost urgency that we all should be able to purchace one regardless of the amount of GAS that each one of us may have.
Remember to stress the fact that it is not good to be wasteful.
Please let me know if my story works for you.
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Location: SoCal | Phil, if you think Pearl's buying this, then she's playing you like a trout on a line. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | How about this one
Take wife to dinner at her favorite spot, let her dine on her most favorite dinner regardless of cost, after remarking that seems to have lost so much weight that she needs to eat something like dessert that will bring back some of the shapeliness that is her crowning glory. Over wine (GOOD wine) and dessert, you make the pitch.
"Dearest, I have a confession to make that I have been attracted to another that tried to take me away from you, but I, because of our great love, rejected those wiles, and our relationship is stronger because of it."
Her reply, of course, is "Who is this piece of womanly excrement??"
Now comes the tricky part that if done right gets you the OFC guitar.
"There will never be another woman that I would even turn my head to watch walk by as long as I have you (do not, DO NOT, ogle the waitress while saying this), it is an inanimate object of wood and Lyracord that tempted me, a piece of technology made just for the elite OFCers that I rejected, just like I gave away my favorite toy to a crippled child when I was five and knew my drunken dad would never get me another, and the shoes I gave to a homeless child on the street at age twelve even though I knew I would be laughed at and ridiculed barefoot at school as my drunken dad would never buy me another pair. Noo, I will forget this youthful desire as I did the hope that Mom and I could have something to eat during that four year drunken binge my dad did while I was in high school. It is just a guitar to make up for for a life of deprivation, I know you would rather have shoes and stuff so I will forget it as I always have. Eat your dessert and let me take you shopping, I have to kick off my shoes as I am not used to having any for very long."
That should do it if done right.
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Location: south east Michigan | ..sniff...Bailey, that story brings a tear to me eye. Hell, I'll buy you the guitar! |
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Location: Eugene, OR | Ahhh just one more reason I'm thankfully, not married. |
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Location: SoCal | Ok Bailey. Bottom line .. did it work for you? |
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Location: Eugene, OR | If this OFC guitar ends up being anything close to an Elite 12 string LX, count me in ;) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I was wondering if Al is putting together an official wait list?
If so, please add me to the list.
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Location: SoCal | I'd be willing to bet that the OFC guitar is not going to be a 12 string. |
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Location: Vernon, CT | I'm getting my $'s together for this one. Like in all business deals money talks and B.S. walks!! Play on!
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Location: Tennessee | A good friend of mine recently had an experience that went something like this:
"Honey, I'm going to buy a Porsche".
"You're what? You promised me new carpet for the house and new appliances".
"I know, but you know I'm having a mid-life crisis. I feel like if I don't buy this Porsche I'm likely to go out and have an affair with a young blond."
"Buy the Porsche!"
Substitute "OFC Guitar" for "Porsche" in the above scenario and you ought to be OK. |
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Location: Vernon, CT | Add the words "divorce Lawyer", "alimony" and maybe "child support" you've one hell of an expensive car or guitar!!!! Play On!
John L.
Custom Legend 1779-USA
Legend 1777-LX
Balladeer 1771-LX
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Tornado (1970)
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Martin D16GT
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Location: 6 String Ranch | A porsche is always a good car to have during a midwife crisis, as well as the OFC guitar. |
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| "Ahhh just one more reason I'm thankfully, not married."
Ohh man you just do not know how much some of us love the challeges of married life! After many years of this kind of closeness, Good times as well as Bad, all the hobbies and collections and projects you want to buy or own or take on, and then to have to keep "some of them" hidden from your spouse until you can find a cleaver way to break it to her. I'll tell ya What a blast it has been! Makes the GAS much more exciting! Get's your heart pumping when you know your wife will make life hard for you if she finds out! I think I could out-wit any guy who is not married because of all the practice! I will admit it though, it would have been easier to be single. but then I most likely would not have these 2 really cool kids of mine who seem to be following in my footsteps musically?
I see some of you guy's have dozens of guitars! Man My Hats off to you if your married. unless you happen to be quite wealthy this is a real accomplishment! So far I plan tyo use on stage each one of the guitars I own but very soon it wil be foolish to think I can bring all these to a bar and not loose one from time to time?
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Great sentiment, and Paul M. this is the dress rehearsal for the BIG TIME, I won't know if it works until the OFC guitar comes out, meanwhile I have been practicing it on various mandolin groupies and it seems to work great up until I take off my clothes and they beat a hasty retreat. Seems like nothing compensates for the ravages of age although EVERY one of them paid for the dinner AND wine. :p :p :p |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Husband: "Honny I want to buy a $3000 Adamas"
Wife: "But I want a $3000 boob job"
Husband: "Yeah, but we only have $3000 total"
Wife: "How about you get a $1500 Elite and I'll just get one boob done?"
Husband: "Sounds good to me" |
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Location: Scotland | or.............. Husband - "You don't need a $3K boob job, just rub some toilet paper between them"
Wife: "That won't make them bigger"
Husband: "It worked for your ass" |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | And then the one about the guy who lost his wedding tackle in an accident. He and the wife are discussing it with the Dr who says a transplant can be done, small will run about $15000, medium about $25000 and large is $35000. More than that could be special orderd but would be priced accordingly. The wife wispers slyly in the husbands ear and gives the good Doc a wink and asks "Can we have a moment or two to dicsuss this?" The Doc leaves and a minute later the wife does too. Doc goes back in the room and asks, "Well?" Guy says "She decided on $35000 and is going to remodel the kitchen with it, as well as the bathroom with two new side by side sitdown units, his and hers."
Now if that don't make you want to play the blues I don't know what will......
There sure as hell won't be a cialias moment in theri life, fo sho! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I swore I would not bring infamy on the OFC guitar, but CWK made me do it.
Man walks into Doctors office and complains that he is being shunned because of his high squeecky voice.
Doctor determines that his unusual sexual member endowment is stretching his vocal chords with it's extreme weight and recommends a reduction in size.
Man agrees and succumbs to the operation, which is a great success.
He asks the Doctor in his new manly deep bass voice, "Out of curiosity, where did you bury the excess member section?"
Doctor answers "You didn't think I'd waste it, did you." In a very high and squeecky voice.
CWK2 made me do it. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Tick, Tick, Tick ... |
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Location: NJ | Older married couple are at a table in a swanky restaurant.
This gorgeous young redhead walks by and gives the husband a seductive wink.
"Who was THAT!!??" the wife asks.
The husband says, "Well, to be perfectly honest, that's my mistress"
The wife goes off on a violent tirade, threatening divorce, etc.
The husband waits for her to calm down, then tells her, "You realize of course, that if we divorce, you can FORGET about the house in Miami, the boat, and the vacations in Europe . . . and you'll probably have to go back to WORK . . "
The meal progresses in total silence.
Ten minutes later, the husband's business partner goes by with a young blonde on his arm.
The wife asks "Who's THAT with Herb??"
The husband responds "That's HIS mistress"
The wife says:
"OUR'S is prettier" . . . . |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Alright, each of you guys has to mail me $50 or else I'm gonna print this thread, make copies, and mail 'em to your wives. |
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Location: NJ | I'll forward you her lawyer's address . . . . . . |
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Location: SoCal | If you'll recall, my wife was the one who encouraged me on the OFC guitar and wouldn't let me sell any of them. Please do mail it to her.
Ha! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I guess we could say that this board is "out of town" since it's not really local to any of us. SO for Mr Duncan, as they say, what happens out of town, stays out of town. Just a little rule we can all live by better. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | 'Twas the night before Tuesday and all through the OFC... Not a member was sleeping, especially Moody and me. The collectors were gathered in front of their Dell's... Just trying to survive this night of sleepless hell. And Al's such a shrewd one, so quiet and sly... How can he do this, he's such a nice guy. The minutes pass slowly like watching grass grow... Just a few more hours and perhaps we'll finally know.
Tick... Tick... Tick... |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | You don't suppose it might be a cruel, cruel hoax to punish us for all the times we have faked a Noo Jurshee accent. Al wud neffer do nuttin lak dat, WUD HE? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | NAH!!! Fergedaboudit! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | These two Seagulls were flying over New Jersey and one turns to the other and says "you see any guitar players?".
"Yeah, I spotted a couple"!
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Location: Upper Left USA | This just in!
Details are still sketchy but here is Al Pep with the OFC Model:
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That's DARN good! Could be the cover of the next OFC CD. What are we up to now, the 3rd annual OFC CD? |
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Location: NJ | That IS good!
Very reminiscent of George Harrison's "doodles" inside of the "All Things Must Pass" album . .
By the time we get the CD out . . .CDs'll be obsolete . . . .
What THEN?
An Official OFC iPod???
(. . . . oh, shit.) :rolleyes: |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | geez....and I thought I had spells of "stray voltage"! Youse guys is great! Now, for the "developmental" scoring on that drawing..... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Seesco,
RE: "1982 Collector's project- Abalones Beware!
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May I suggest the name Aphrodite, risen from the Sea!
Or is the Afro-ditty, rapper from the Docks... |
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Location: NJ | e mail mileskb@aol.com in reference to the CD.
AS for any information, I have a gag order until Dec 15th |
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Location: Upper Left USA | We ain't tellin nobody noth'in!
Does this mean the Web Cam over the Testing Room is out of the question too?
Go ahead, build the suspense. |
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Let's see how close this comes to THE OFC guitar,
Country Artist style will look like a 6774 on steroids...
Wide finger pick style 1-7/8" wide neck
Mid Depth Bowl w/Cutaway
ALL LX Upgrades
Round sound hole
AAA solid Spruce Top w/Enhanced Scalloped Bracing
Ebony Fretboard
OP-50 Preamp
Original Patented Pickup
Gold/pearl tuners w/contrast black head
OFC Logo 12th fret inlay
Where do I send my deposit ???
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Go look up the old post about this, I think in there I mentioned the big suprise. I mentioned a lot of other spoo too so you'll have to sort it out but you can. |
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Location: SoCal | back then, Al also gave us a pretty good idea of what he was looking for :p ;) :p |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm looking for a co-signer !!! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | This site has now become artistically elite.
Very few sites have a sketch by Pickasso on their wall.
At least it looked like a Pickasso, "Joisey Al Playing OFC Unrequited Dreams" |
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