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2013/07/30 13:35:15 (permalink)

Pretty cool...

In the Sept. issue of Guitar World there is a picture and short
about a guitar built be a guy if Florida.
I talked with him on and off and watched him piece that thing together.
Pretty cool that he was noticed.
The full page dragons inlay if you see it.
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    The Maillard Reaction
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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 13:42:41 (permalink)
    Is it the guy that built Jerry a guitar?


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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 13:46:53 (permalink)
    He's built very few...maybe 10 and I don't know how many he has sold or to who.
     
     
    I hated that he sold the dragons...it was his first but I understand why he did.
     
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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 13:49:46 (permalink)
    I was just taking a wild guess when you mentioned "dragons":
     
    http://www.cripeguitars.com/garcia.html
     
    Are there any photos of your acquaintances guitar on the internet?


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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 13:54:35 (permalink)
    I don't know Mike.
     
    Here is the build thread.
    Better than anything the mag would do anyway LOL.
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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 13:55:48 (permalink)
    Cripe liked to make his own fireworks as well as guitars and was killed in an accident in 1996.

     In order, then, to discover the limit of deepest tones, it is necessary not only to produce very violent agitations in the air but to give these the form of simple pendular vibrations. - Hermann von Helmholtz, predicting the role of the electric bassist in 1877.
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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 13:58:49 (permalink)
    Hi Drew,
     Yes, reading that now... I've only sort of known that he was down south and made a few guitars. I was surprised to learn of how it ended, being from down there I can only comment that it seems almost typical.
     
     
    Hi Spacey,
     Thanks for the link.


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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 14:06:58 (permalink)
    They said he got $17.000.00 for it.
     
    I'm glad I kept my mouth shut....
    I almost asked him when he finished about the center-line....
    photos can be deceiving but my eyes told me then and they tell me
    now that he missed.
    I also wasn't convinced the pups where squared up either.
    If it can't be seen....good. I'm not going to elaborate.
     
     
    You're welcome Mike.
     
     
     

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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 19:44:53 (permalink)
    Yep, they don't look square to me either in that photo.

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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 20:27:08 (permalink)
    Spacey,
     If you ever ask me to photo your guitars I'll be sure to use a long lens that has near zero spherical distortion so that it all looks straight and great.
     
     :-)
     
     
     best regards,
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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/30 21:34:43 (permalink)
    While I love to gaze lovingly at such creations and marvel at the work and craftsmanship required to build such a thing, I believe I'd much rather have a guitar that fit me to a T, was pleasing but not overly ostentatious to the eye and sounded great. Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder...and my current Tele redo might be too much for some. But I'd be afraid to get a pick near that one.

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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/31 01:32:35 (permalink)
    spacey
    I don't know Mike.
     
    Here is the build thread.
    Better than anything the mag would do anyway LOL.




    Wow.  I must have spent 90 minutes at least on that forum and on Virgil's website!  One thing I learned from my last custom (the Gaudy Paul that Space Cowboy now owns) is that I don't need as many of the extras (like detailed inlays), but I want it to be the body style, neck scale and radius, and weight that I prefer.  THEN I want the wood grain to pop!
     
    I actually far prefer his second guitar to the first, however the different kind of inlay he did on the really expensive guitar has my interest - more than a normal inlay actually!

     
    Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/31 02:19:07 (permalink)
    I very much appreciate the beauty and craftsmanship in things like extraordinary inlay work like that, but I have a rule:
     
    I'll pay for figured wood, but otherwise I don't pay for cosmetics.

     In order, then, to discover the limit of deepest tones, it is necessary not only to produce very violent agitations in the air but to give these the form of simple pendular vibrations. - Hermann von Helmholtz, predicting the role of the electric bassist in 1877.
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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/31 02:43:17 (permalink)
    drewfx1
    I very much appreciate the beauty and craftsmanship in things like extraordinary inlay work like that, but I have a rule:
     
    I'll pay for figured wood, but otherwise I don't pay for cosmetics.



    So you don't wear makeup on stage then?  

     
    Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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    Re: Pretty cool... 2013/07/31 06:03:25 (permalink)
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    Spacey,
     If you ever ask me to photo your guitars I'll be sure to use a long lens that has near zero spherical distortion so that it all looks straight and great.
     
     :-)
     
     
     best regards,
    mike




    Man you don't know how much I would have loved to have you photograph my builds.
    I wish shipping costs weren't such a big factor. Maybe I should move LOL.
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