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Location: closely held secret | Here\'s a link to some pics from tonight (so far).
Jeff W. brought a special toy (not Schroeder, though he brought him, too). Tomorrow we might see how far it can throw Moody.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Awesome start John. Thanks for the early update! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | was that a 12 fret cutaway 2080? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thanx for posting this! For all us Po' Folks who can't make it.
(If I still lived in MA, I woulda hitch-hiked)
I didn't have a Dress-guitar to bring anyway.
[That's a Lie, I woulda brought my 1621 USO] |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | That's awesome...great way for those of us who couldn't make it, to get a feel for what we're missin'.
Much appreciated...now that you've started, you've got to keep it goin'....pllleeeease!!! :)
Not that you need to hear it, but, enjoy the weekend. Hope you all have a totaly great time!
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | SWEET.
John, you gotta play it and give me a report! |
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Location: Waurika OK | Keep'em comin. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by stephent28:
SWEET.
John, you gotta play it and give me a report! I have. Repeatedly. 12 fret, slothead, mid-depth bowl. Easily the most comfortable Ovation/Adamas I've ever played, with a solid tone across all strings.
Now I have to figure out how to include one in my future. |
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Location: Up North | Looks like a great start to an incredible weekend. Have fun everyone. |
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Location: closely held secret | Okay, Tom's custom 2080 AND Jeff's custom Ute. Wow. Too close to call. |
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| keep em coming when you have the chance!! Thanks!!
some of you look like this morning's wake-up will be a little rough... make sure the guys at the factory fire up some large, loud, whining pieces of equipment and tooling first thing. :p
taking Shannon to her rehearsal, then to the hospital, then pick her up from rehearsal, then maybe Char gets released for the commencement, we'll know in an hour or two..
have a great time all!
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Thanks John...
...I think. :confused:
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by muzza:
Thanks John...
...I think. :confused:
(Makes me want to be there even more...) Same here. Glad to see the catapault made it! Did you guys toss anything yet? |
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Location: CT | Looks like fun. I'm only an hour and a half drive from there, but am still missing out. Hobbling around on crutches, can't carry a guitar case (or a tune)...That beer sure does look tasty though. Maybe next year. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Thanks for the pics, their great!
What is the guitar with the wooden roundback? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Wow!
I miss my buddy's, and some people I haven't met yet!
Slipster - tanned and sporting a new look, go Daddy-O!
Weaser - You look way to serious but nice guitars!
TRBoy (and Mrs. TR) - Did you get there way early this time too?
Next year! The OFC YSBYW Tour! |
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Location: closely held secret | Jim, no, not yet. I think we may try it in the O parking lot. Maybe we can get Rick Hall to 'go long'.
Wayne, that's one Kim Keller's specials. Think 'contact paper'...
Woody... I hope that doesn't stand for 'You Should Bring Your Woody!'.
I'll get more pictures at the workshops and factory today. I've had my waffles, yogurt and eggs, and I'm feeling the effects of only 4 hours sleep out of 48 awake.
A large group has left for the morning tours. Last I heard Jason was still asleep (he's gonna be pissed. Phil couldn't wake him up. |
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Location: closely held secret | Discovered a few more I took last night. Don't know how I forgot them, it was only 2am...
Foreign Aid...
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I'm gonna have to leave the OFC for a few weeks. This is too painful. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by schroeder:
Is that a reference to my ugly mug? Well, I won't be able to confirm or deny that 'till next Christmas in the UK.
The reference is more along the lines of I can't be there, and seeing what we're missing is painful.
Anyway, your ugly mug can't be any worse than mine.
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | TRboy plays on da drums too, eh?!
No wonder he said there was no room for me in his car this year.
Lanaki, does the Park allow drums too?
Thanks for the pics Wabbit, keep em comin.
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Location: Upper Left USA | RE" Woody... I hope that doesn't stand for 'You Should Bring Your Woody!'."
"You Shoulda Brought Your Wife" |
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Location: big island | jim,
email your park contact about the drums. i'm a drummer by birth. thanks for the pics, waskel! |
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Location: GA USA | Is that BB checking out the WRB? Weaser, how did that thing with the you-know-what of what's-his-name go over? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I like how it says "Report Inappropriate Content" right below Schroeder's picture. Where did we ever get this image of Brits being stuffy. They have the Royals and then they have the rest of the people. |
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Location: ms | I was right a bunch of old fat guys drinking beer and playing guitars ;) I would fit right in but i don't drink. I just eat enough to make up the difference. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Hi John.
I know you're probably having WAAAAY too much fun to follow up on this request, but any chance of putting some names to faces on those album photos? :confused:
I can recognise Temp, Al, Jason, Cliff, Moody, Jerome, and I think..BrianT?, Slipkid? and Strummin12? (with the hair and reflecting cap?)
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Location: closely held secret | Okay, new pics added here . I captioned most of them, I'll finish later.
The trebuchet successfully launched 2 Ovation Ultras many times... until there wasn't enough left to tie a rope on. Thanks Jeff for building it and dragging it all the way up here for our idle amusement!
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Location: Central Massachusetts | How about some motion! More to come!
YouTube, shot 1 of 5
Classic! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Well, I bet that an American made would have flown higher, straighter and further. But who would dare to try that?
There are a lot of observers that trusted that it will fly straight, hmmmm...what time did the cocktails begin?
Jealously Ya'lls,
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Location: Central Massachusetts | SlipKid says YSBT!
Round 2 |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | dvd, That's one TOUGH Guitar! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Two ultras _were_ harmed during this event.
(Note the k-bar neck attachment survived!)
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Can I have dibs on spare parts? :eek: |
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Here I am scrambling to fix up guitars and send over seas, and you guys are trashing guitars. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | A true multimedia extravaganza...
thanks to mtnbikerfred we have audio of a couple of the crashes from _inside_ the guitars...
First crash audio
Second crash audio
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Geez, that hurts. Oughta be a vivisection committee formed for this activity. Send the parts to Woody for resurrection, at least!
I will contribute to the cause for shipping the carcass, if needed. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Now that was COOL! :cool: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I'm sorry. That guitar just doesn't sound tuned to me. I can't get my ears past the disonance.
I have the same trouble with some moderne classical music, where they piano is played with rotten grapefruit on the strings while a chainsaw chews the legs.....Maybe it would sound better with a Taylor?
But thanks ever so for the same day reports. This is almost like being embedded with the troups! Without the nasty morning-after of having Cliff passed out at the foot of your bed..... |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Airborne 3 of 5
Uploading them as fast as this lobby connection will allow, while listening to everybody jam away.
Great fun.
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Location: Central Massachusetts | 4 of 5 -- a good bounce on this one -- my personal favorite |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | 5 of 5 -- nice bounce on this one, too
th-th-th-that's all folks!! last upload finishing as the lobby jam folds for the evening
good night! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Elliot,
"Here I am scrambling to fix up guitars and send over seas, and you guys are trashing guitars."
I know firsthand, after cringing at a threatened bashing, that the MOB that was sacrificed last year had an extensive radial crack in the neck which rendered it non repairarable. I sure that this year's "throw ins" were either terminal patients or volunteers as well.
PM me your parts list, I may need to clean up some. |
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Location: Scotland | I have a sequence of pics showing a guitar being hurled for several hundred feet and Mr K returning with it intact and undamaged! Try that with a Taylor and see what happens! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | You guys are SICK PUPPIES!!......................... and I LIKE IT!! :D |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | It's OK, I'll get over it. I do admire the engineering, though. That is one great gizmo! I take nobody brought a banjo? As in, "The best sound a banjo makes......." |
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Location: GA USA | Thanks for the updates, guys. The captions help too. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Next should be the Stonge Family Picnic and Adamas/Ovation/Hamer Home Tour!!! |
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Next year :)
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Location: big island | anyone else notice that with few exceptions, the french guys are the only ones who can look down and see their feet? |
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| Originally posted by Lanaki:
anyone else notice that with few exceptions, the french guys are the only ones who can look down and see their feet? NADD... North American Dikdo Disease..
when your belly sticks out more than your.. :rolleyes:
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Location: big island | :D that's a good one, glenn.
i'd heard about the dunlop disease and the chest in drawers disease but not the dikdo...until now. it looks contagious and probably spreads by visiting the OFC tours. i thought this was all about roundbacks not round fronts...
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Do you have technical specification for when Big becomes Huge? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Jas,
Your framed work of the natives paying me homage is just-freakin'-terrific. I love it. |
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This is ridiculous - he's in the next room. I could insult him in person if I could find the energy to get to the door... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Only if he's dressed like Margaret Thatcher |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by schroeder:
Sometimes there is too much information on this board.
Do you have technical specification for when Big becomes Huge? I would suggest asking Fred, but that might be misconstrued. :p |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Only if he's dressed like Margaret Thatcher DRESS like her?
Hell, I'LL steal your milk and say I done you a favour.
(actually, being the raving libertarian that I am, A bit of a Maggie fan. But still laugh at the 'Spitting Image' takes on her and Ronnie...)
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Schro; I'm big for my height, 20 pounds more and I'm huge. But it varies by culture.
In Indian, 3 lbs overweight is obese.... |
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Location: closely held secret | Why don't you both jusr come down to the lobby and insult each other? |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by fillhixx:
In Indian, 3 lbs overweight is obese.... is that with or without reservations? |
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Location: GA USA | Glad you liked it, JW. I look forward to one day paying homage myself. Your guitar flinger was cool beyond words.
Actually, Phil has a great looking butt. I was just trying to coax him back to the board. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Lanaki:
Originally posted by fillhixx:
In Indian, 3 lbs overweight is obese.... is that with or without reservations?
Sometimes my fingers get ahead of my brain.
Much less painful than when I do the same thing with my mouth.
I hate it when my legs can't get me out of what my mouth gets me into..... |
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Location: Parrish, FL | What guitar is Schroeder holding in the pic with Jerome and Tom?
Looks mighty tasty!
Looks like a good time was had by all and that 'I should'a been there!'
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Here's my tour pics .. my point and shoot didn't do so well with the lighting in the lobby, so I stuck to actual tour pics... enjoy! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Oops, disregard that last link. Go here instead. I added a few more, as well. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Great looking pics dvd! I hope to see the factory for myself one day. It just has to give you GAS to no end.
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Location: Orange County, California | Ummmm. My wife didn't buy the "But honey... it followed me home" story one bit :D :p :D :p
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Location: big island | so what's up now, fred? are you typing this from your wireless laptop out in the dog house? does that incredible koala fit in there with you? did your dog fetch it when your wife threw it? |
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Location: Orange County, California | No Randy, My Bride is *almost* as cool as yours :p :D :p :D |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by mtnbikerfred:
No Randy, My Bride is *almost* as cool as yours :p :D :p :D Glad you made it home safe and sound with that great looking/sounding curly koa topped gitbox. :D
I'm just now leaving work (3:35a EST)...I'm trying to figure out a way to get an Adamas out of this debacle. The way I see it, someone is going to have to pay. ;) |
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Location: Nashville TN. | It did not fly well enough.
I am complaining to........
http://www.kamanaero.com/ |
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Location: closely held secret | Actually, after DVD and most of the crowd went back in, we continued firing...
Probably the best distance we got from a guitar was achieved after I stuffed the body with chunks of 2x4 which brought the weight up to about 10-12 pounds. That one exploded on impact.
We also launched a 15 pound rock quite a ways a couple times.
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by stephent28:
was that a 12 fret cutaway 2080? Actually, the ONLY thing this has in common with the 2080 is the soundhole and the ebony fretboard/bridge.
2080: 14 fret, NWT top, peg top, Nike swoosh, contour bowl, VIP, standard neck, sounds good.
Mine: 12 fret, textured (UTE) top, slothead, Adamas markers, medium bowl, Studio amp, 1 3/4 neck, sounds TONS better. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | I haven't post any pictures yet because they all need to be resized. I was experimenting alot with the exposure compensation function of my camera. As a result Many of my picture were moderately underexposed. I am resizing the good and the bad ones. I will post the good one when the resizing is done. |
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