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Location: NJ | Anyone going to the Columbus Ohio guitar show this sunday?
Weather permitting I will be there. I plan on taking a light load so if there is anything you absolutely must see, tell me and I will bring it along.
more info at www.guitardigest.com |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Good luck with it Al, keep an eye out for the old metal ones!...... |
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Location: NJ | oops I forgot that posts of this nature by me can be offensive to some members. If this one bothers you please let me or miles know
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Location: Upper Left USA | You need to be punished.
No kazoo!
One month!
Enjoy your trip Al. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Pay no attention to people dressed in scarlet and grey laying motionless on the sidewalk beneath open upper floor windows.
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PS - Don't worry, I'll enforce the manifesto for you while you're away ... |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | Ohio died last night. Columbus the center of the disaster will probably not be functioning for sometime. Good news there should not be much traffic.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Kinda makes you long for the old days in L.A.!
They win, we riot!
They lose, we riot!
Either way everybody gets a new TV set!
Maybe this belongs in Slipkid's Flat Screen post... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | WARNING... POTENTIAL SENTIMENTALITY ALERT ...WARNING
The one thing, maybe the ONLY thing I miss from the east coast, and I say this from the bottom of my heart (or the pit of my stomach) are the trips with Alpep to the Columbus Ohio Guitar Show.
Among the worlds problems that we solved along that 6 hour ride (6 from the time he picked me up en route), some may not know that one could argue that at least one was also created that we are proud of, namely the OvationFanClub.com.
The show is a fun show, with lots of good folks who I will miss also. Seeing Paul and the gang with Reaganomics, the occasional appearance from Kim Keller, and rest of the Hamer gang and more, are all great memories.
But truly, spending 12 hours in a weekend, maybe only once a year, with one of your best friends, ignoring cell calls, listening to the GPS do it's "off route - recalculating", eating fine Denny's cuisine, and talking about everything, especially music and guitars, is an event that I looked forward to each winter and spring I could make it.
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Location: NJ | LOL I forgot about that
Yes boys and girls it is true. The OFC was concieved on one of those long trips out to Columbus.
We did solve all the world's problems and the problems of all gear companies also.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by 45flint:
Ohio died last night.
Steve Ohio didn't die, it was raped and murdered. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Tin soldiers and Nixon coming |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by stephent28:
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming I initially parsed that as 'Tin Machine' and started to re-evaluate driving down there. :\ |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | So the Big 10 sends a bunch of teams to bowl games and most of them come back losers. What else is new?
Maybe they can talk about the guitar show now, without saying, "How about those Buckeyes?"
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Location: ranson,wva | i ate at a white castle in ohio once...never been to the guitar show tho. its on my to do list...jason |
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Location: Westerville, Ohio | Okay....enough with the slam on the Buckeye's. I'm not sure who Florida State played, looked like a high school team. One the bright side we are still big 10 champs.
The guitar show, glad I checked in the OFC to see what's going on because I had no idea about the show. I might go, it's kind of a long drive.....at least 4 miles away.
Al, are you setting up a dealer table?? Anyone think there will be an Adamas 2080 there?
-Adam |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | I'm sure Al will report back and let us know how the show was.I'll bet he missed taking the trip with Miles,just as much as Miles hated not being able to go. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I talked to Al last night. He had a good trip out. No weather issues. Dave |
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Location: NJ | Got a cel phone call from Al yesterday while he was en route to Ohio w/Sue.
Topic of conversation:
He needed me to "settle" a discussion that he and Sue were having regarding details of specific MontyPython skit.
Flying Lesson
It is indeed gratifying that I can be called upon to bring to an end such earth-shattering dilemmas . . . |
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Location: SoCal | It's good when a man knows his value in life...... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | At least it was Monty Python. If it's SpongeBob, SquarePants, you gotta get concerned. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | I am leaving for Columbus right now. I wonder what an Al looks like. I guess I could go around asking venders Monty Python questions and see who answers.
Just got out of praise band managed to wrap my foot in the cord and fling my guitar across the stage during communion. It was my best Pete Townsend imitation
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Hey did you get any video of that?
You could sell it on ebay to help pay for any repairs if you need to have them done. :) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You can't miss him. Looks like Fidel Castro after a few good meals ... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | mauve shirt and beret. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | I did find him, but I think it was more like Chev Guevara who spent too much time at McDonalds. Huge crowd, really hard to move. Fun to see what old Gibsons are worth. Got to get my high school j-45 on ebay. It is a pick of crap but these guys seem to get excited about them. Church guitar ok, just the b string out of tune.
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Location: NJ | picked up an early Adamas prototype at the show. You guys will NEVER believe this one. but it is too late to take pics.....tomorrow after I sleep... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I give ya tree-fiddy...
and Al, quite with the teasers and give up the straight story... some folks need to concentrate on work... |
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Location: NJ | I walk into the guitar show and an old friend greets me with "Al I have something you need to see" Well that was not the first time a gentleman approached me in that manner at a guitar show so I figured he wanted me to ID a guitar. Since I am sorta known in the vintage guitar world, often times people try to stump me with strange and wierd instruments. I have not seen them all but have knowledge about most.
so about a 1/2 hour later he opens a case and brings over to me what I absolutely recognize as a prototype adamas. "you need this" he said. It has to go to someone that appreciates the history.
There was a tag hanging off the guitar. This is what it said.
I assume this is in Charlie's hand to Bill. I hope Cwk will confirm this. Well I/we struck a deal and the guitar went home with me.
Pics when I get a chance. It is 8 hours from bellmawr to columbus. I got home at 2 am unloaded the truck answered e mail and put on the tv at 7 am my carpentars arrived totally unexpectedly in the rain to finish siding. I feel like i was run over by my truck not driving it. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | nice note there Al. |
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Location: NJ | so were you also working on the space shuttle at the time of the early adamas prototypes? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | This is kinda fun.
...now post some friggin' pictures, Al. |
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Location: closely held secret | So, Bill... did the guitar ever make it to you? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Who cares what it looks like.
I wanna know how it sounds! |
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Location: NJ | I think Al's trying to "ease in" to telling that he paid $1850 for the tag . . . |
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Location: NJ | you guys are brutal.
I am working on 3 hours sleep....
my camera broke so I sent it back to nikon, I had to find my other digital got that, the batteries will not hold a charge so I had to recharge them
and now it is dark so I took a couple of pics with the flash.
This is an early engineering prototype. Pre epaulet design large access hole in the back for tweaking the braces. The neck has one of the original designs for the adamas with the extended fingerboard.
not sure if you want to see more pics if so I can try to take them tomorrow when hopefully we will see some sun.
I was really excited to get this guitar. it is one of the missing links between the guitars beginnings and what finally made it in production.
this guitar is similar to the one Sam was selling or sold a while back.
when I take a pic of the back you will see it has a hand laid fiberglass bowl.
the strings on it look original I did not try to tune them up. Not sure if I should leave it or change them and try the thing out.
hope you enjoyed this find as much as I did.
I assume that the tag is genuine. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Al, that is a very interesting guitar. I vote for new strings and playing it.
As long as you're wrecking the value by changing the strings, though, you could slap a 'mustache rides' sticker on there. Those sound holes are a riot. ;) |
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Location: NJ | Is it numbered anywhere Al??
It'd be interesting to where it fits in the evolutionary chain (and how it differs from Sam's). |
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Location: NJ | on the top in faint red letters are 12-3 a paper label says 12-1 than -2 below it.
the top is arched! |
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Location: France | that's an amazing find! Congratulations
thanks for sharing Al.
Let us know how it sounds.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The binding/purfling is cool....
Arch-Top??? Hmmm.... interesting.
Al, those strings look perfect for you.
How'd it get into your friend's hands? |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
The binding/purfling is cool....
Arch-Top??? Hmmm.... interesting.
Al, those strings look perfect for you.
you are probably right
How'd it get into your friend's hands? I have an idea but I have to keep that secret. |
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| I love the cut outs - like a pair of dolphins trying to get it on.
D'ya think they still have that template and would do a custom order? |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by schroeder:
I love the cut outs - like a pair of dolphins trying to get it on.
D'ya think they still have that template and would do a custom order? somehow I doubt it |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | I know that some of you may take this the wrong way but I saw this on ebay and it reminds me of the early proto type Al had found in Columbus. You have to love the humble beginnings of innovation, whereever you find it. I just admire people that have a vision and make it happen.
http://cgi.ebay.com/CA-Composite-acoustic-guitar-Rare-Prototype_W0Q... |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by schroeder:
Just noticed - I'm closing in on cruster on the post count. I've been, uh, sick. Yeah, that's the ticket. ;) |
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