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Oct 1, 2006 9:01:00 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2006 9:01:00 GMT -5
Hello peeps. Just saying hi. Have been browsing the other forum for ages, mostly to have the odd giggle at the fun stuff, but also to get varied grassroots opinions on current affairs from across the pond.
I live in Bristol, England.
I posted a couple of times many moons ago on minor inconsequential things.
elf stands for Everett, Lowden and Foley, the three guitars I noodle away on most often.
Shame about the split....'nuff said.....erm.... that's all for now.
James
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Oct 1, 2006 9:06:29 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2006 9:06:29 GMT -5
Welcome elf! Glad to have you here.
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Oct 1, 2006 9:08:22 GMT -5
Post by andrewg on Oct 1, 2006 9:08:22 GMT -5
Hi James, we're almost neighbours-I'm in Exeter. Welcome to the forum. It's all very new here still but there are some great people you'll soon get to know.
Andrew
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Oct 1, 2006 10:30:22 GMT -5
Post by kenlarsson on Oct 1, 2006 10:30:22 GMT -5
Hello and welcome.
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Oct 1, 2006 10:39:08 GMT -5
Post by timfarney on Oct 1, 2006 10:39:08 GMT -5
Welcome Elf! Any neighbor of Andrew's is welcome here.
Tim
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Oct 1, 2006 10:54:08 GMT -5
Post by j on Oct 1, 2006 10:54:08 GMT -5
Welcome from a fellow European. Make yourself at home J
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Oct 1, 2006 11:01:19 GMT -5
Post by millring on Oct 1, 2006 11:01:19 GMT -5
Welcome! I'd never heard of Foley guitars. Thanks for the introduction.
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Oct 1, 2006 11:07:58 GMT -5
Post by sekhmet on Oct 1, 2006 11:07:58 GMT -5
I think Foley's are related to Lowdens by maker?
hrrm.
Welcome Elf. Any elf is a welcome friend around here.
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Oct 1, 2006 11:21:37 GMT -5
Post by iamjohnne on Oct 1, 2006 11:21:37 GMT -5
Good morning and welcome.
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Oct 1, 2006 11:31:13 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2006 11:31:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the greets. Known to my long suffering freinds as a notorious, compulsive guitar bore, I'll just say a little about the Foley and the Lowden. Sekhmet, there is a maker called Foley somewhere in Ireland, but mine is a deep bodied OM Martin style thing made by Ed Foley in New Jersey. No relation.
The Lowden is from Northern Ireland. Spectacular instrument. If you say Boo! to the soundhole choirs of angels come flying out at you in full song. Lovely but doesn't really cut it for cowboy songs though. That's where the Foley comes in.
As for the Everett, well........No I really ought to rein myself in and shut up here before I alienate folks with unstoppable guitar babble.
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Oct 1, 2006 11:33:53 GMT -5
Post by iamjohnne on Oct 1, 2006 11:33:53 GMT -5
This will not do. You cannot leave us hanging here. We must know about the Everett.
You have such a colorful descriptive style, thanks for sharing about your guitars. Now please tell us about the third one.
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Oct 1, 2006 11:52:48 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2006 11:52:48 GMT -5
Thanks for indulging me. Kent Everett makes nice guitars in Atlanta, Georgia. Somehow one ended up on ebay in the UK. Rosewood/Sitka. I took a chance and was chuffingly rewarded with a corker. Mini jumbo, scratched and abused and generally played to within an inch of it's life.
Took it to local guitar maker Johnny Kinkead of Kinkade guitars in Bristol, (very little known but really skilled maker and kind man, (got one of his guitars too)). He did all sorts of loving restoration, resulting in a seductively voiced, effortlessly playable but less strident than the others guitar. I have a new love in her and am guiltily enjoying the honeymoon period, as the other guitars pine away in their cases.
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Oct 1, 2006 12:26:02 GMT -5
Post by millring on Oct 1, 2006 12:26:02 GMT -5
Yuppers, Everett's made some REALLY fine guitars. Legend has it that Everett was David Wilcox's first "boutique" guitar before Olson (and after the Guild that shows up on Nighshift Watchman.)
Elf,
It is not arguable...
Everything BUT guitar talk is boring. Guitar talk all you want. You'll have willing readers.
If you've been lurking for a while, you know that there have been several Lowdens here and abouts the TTT friends. Chak Aw has played one for years. It VERY nearly was my first good guitar.
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Oct 1, 2006 12:26:23 GMT -5
Post by Cribbs on Oct 1, 2006 12:26:23 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum elf!
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Oct 1, 2006 12:31:04 GMT -5
Post by Tamarack on Oct 1, 2006 12:31:04 GMT -5
Welcome elf!
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Oct 1, 2006 16:03:51 GMT -5
Post by paulschlimm on Oct 1, 2006 16:03:51 GMT -5
Hello Elf.
Salisbury transplant over here for a while yet. I'm a Yank on exchange to Her Majesty's Army.
Paul
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Oct 1, 2006 19:54:00 GMT -5
Post by Shannon on Oct 1, 2006 19:54:00 GMT -5
Hello, elf. Welcome to the zoo.
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Oct 1, 2006 20:56:54 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2006 20:56:54 GMT -5
Welcome elf!
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Oct 1, 2006 21:10:24 GMT -5
Post by Village Idiot on Oct 1, 2006 21:10:24 GMT -5
Greetings, Elf. It's good to have people from around the world on this forum. Especially if they talk about guitars. As long as I've got your ear, what's a G chord?
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Oct 1, 2006 23:15:45 GMT -5
Post by HarmonEyes on Oct 1, 2006 23:15:45 GMT -5
Hello Elf and Welcome!
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