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[QUOTE=blegeyt] So after they lose the next three games will the prices go back up?[/QUOTE]

Ahhh, a Sox fan! (or someone who has watched the Indians fall apart before!)

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

The Indians fall apart too? Maybe they are more like the sox than I thought!

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Burton
http://www.legeytinstruments.com
Brookline, MA.

Hey Burton, I was going to buy some stuff from Dennis, but then I saw he's a Cleveland fan....

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

dang Yankees

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1109 Military Rd.
Kenmore, NY 14217
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[QUOTE=Don Williams] Hey Burton, I was going to buy some stuff from Dennis, but then I saw he's a Cleveland fan....

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Don, I was born in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1954 (the last time the Indians went to the Big Show.) How can I help but root for those guys? {said in a Darth Vader voice} It is my destiny!

Truth be told, I pay very, very little attention to any sports teams, other than my daughter's soccer team that I coached. Go Piedmont Elementary Wingers!

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Last time I looked North America didn't constitute the 'World'. But I may be wrong. Where is Howard when you need a grumpy pedant?

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

I think when it was named baseball was played no where else. Certainly now with the diverse makeup of most teams' roster it would be hard to argue that even American baseball does not in some way represent the world. Lets get back to swappin!

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Burton
http://www.legeytinstruments.com
Brookline, MA.

[QUOTE=Colin S] Last time I looked North America didn't constitute the 'World'. But I may be wrong.

Colin[/QUOTE]
Colin,

You're right.

I will write to the commissioner of baseball, and request a name change immediately. How about: North American Non-Cricket-Type Baseball Ultimate Series To Determine Who Gets To Say "I'm Goin' to Disneyland!" And Land Lucrative Commercial Endorsements Even Though We Scratch Our Private Parts Publicly

(I hope you see that as a joke, and not me wagging a finger at you. It's true that many Americans are very Americentric and view the rest of the world through the wrong end of a telescope. But not all of us. If you saw the movie "Borat", then you'll know that many of us are suave, charming, dignified, and cosmopolitan.)

Cheers!

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Congratulations to the Indians, I could root for them. Too bad that the Dallas-Ft Worth area doesn't have a major league team.

Greg

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GregH
Fot Wuth

I just read my post back and I didn't mean to sound snippy. My apologies. It is a little bit of a stressful time around these parts! Dennis, great post!

Burton

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Burton
http://www.legeytinstruments.com
Brookline, MA.

What type of set are you looking for in trade for the ivory?

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Don Sharp
Got Brazilian?
http://www.sharpguitars.com

Dennis,

I was at the first game the Rockies played in 1993, bet you can't say the same about the Indian's first game  

Rockies all the way, BTW we're already in!!!!!!

Peter

[QUOTE=sharp_custom] What type of set are you looking for in trade for the ivory?
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What do you have to trade. "Make me an offer I can't refuse." -Dennis Corleone

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

[QUOTE=psl53]

Dennis,

I was at the first game the Rockies played in 1993, bet you can't say the same about the Indian's first game  

Rockies all the way, BTW we're already in!!!!!!

Peter

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Peter, I was at that game too! I still have my tickets since they didn't tear them or anything. And they gave us a nice acrylic holder to put them in.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

Peter and Dave,

I went to school at Regis in Denver, and lived in Denver, Boulder, Nederland, and Central City (when it was a quaint ghost town.) I have 2 sisters and their families still in Colorado. So, my allegiance is split, though I would be more tickled seeing the Indians win it all. It going to take a lot to stop the roll that the Rockies are on...

-Dennis

Don,

What do you have in mind to trade? I am overloaded with soundboard material, which is why I was hoping someone had a nice back and side set they would like to trade.

-Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

will you take $10 for the fret slotting saw?

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Reguards,

Ken H

[QUOTE=Hodges_Guitars] will you take $10 for the fret slotting saw?[/QUOTE]
Ken, I just paid $15 plus shipping for it! You are running with scissors! You are sucking the marrow from my bones! You are shoving my wheelchair down the stairs! You are sleeping with my wife! You are taking candy from a baby!

Let me think about it...




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Tell you what, amigo. I'll do it, providing that you comply with the following:

1.) You agree to stop sleeping with my wife. (She says you snore anyway.)

2.) You agree to do something selfless for three strangers over the course of the next three weeks.

3.) You agree not to show up at my sanity hearing.

If you agree, then please PM your shipping address.

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Ken, would you be willing to trade some of your fingerboards instead? How about #1, 3, and 9 in trade for the saw?

And I'm sorry I said all those nasty things. I lied about my wife. She never mentioned you snoring.

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Would you consider an oak and a cherry set for the ivory?

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Don Sharp
Got Brazilian?
http://www.sharpguitars.com

1,3,&9 are yours.

I'll get your address later.

 

Thanks!

Ken

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Reguards,

Ken H

[QUOTE=sharp_custom] Would you consider an oak and a cherry set for the ivory?[/QUOTE]
Hi Don, and thanks for the trade offer. I have about 70 or 80 back and side sets of various species and figures now in my stash, and I'm hoping for something unusual. (I have several curly Cherry sets, and I have already contacted Grant Goltz about some of his curly Burr (White) Oak - before the swap meet.)

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

[QUOTE=Hodges_Guitars]

1,3,&9 are yours.

I'll get your address later.

Thanks!

Ken

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Thanks, Ken!

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

[QUOTE=DennisLeahy] What do you have in mind to trade? I am overloaded with soundboard material, which is why I was hoping someone had a nice back and side set they would like to trade.-Dennis[/QUOTE]

Define "overloaded", and what kind of soundboard material are we talkin' here?   

Bill

PS: I've never ever SEEN your wife.

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Only 90 sets? What's wrong with you???? I have over 200 sets and I can't stop buying!!!

So I guess you don't need backs and sides. I do have ovangkol sets though.

How about a Lugana LT20hd bandsaw? Or, 8" Powermatic jointer?

I've also got a 2" thick billet of curly redwood suitable for dreadnoughts or smaller.

How about maple or walnut burl for rosettes, headplates or inlays?

I'm rambling....Enough

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Don Sharp
Got Brazilian?
http://www.sharpguitars.com

[QUOTE=Bill Greene] [QUOTE=DennisLeahy] What do you have in mind to trade? I am overloaded with soundboard material, which is why I was hoping someone had a nice back and side set they would like to trade.-Dennis[/QUOTE]

Define "overloaded", and what kind of soundboard material are we talkin' here?   

Bill

PS: I've never ever SEEN your wife. [/QUOTE]
Hi Bill,

Well, I have half a dozen curly Redwood tops, a few Western Red Cedar, one bearclaw Italian Alpine Spruce, a few White Spruce (and Grant Goltz lives 2-1/2 hours from me ), as well as maybe 75 Picea lutzii ("Lutz") tops (counting those not yet cut from billets and bolts) in various "colorful" naming designations for the trees, figures, and colors they represent. I don't really want to sell any of my soundboard stash, for 2 reasons:

1.) selfish - I want to be able to pick from my stuff the best top to go with any future instrument I build

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2.) altruistic - I would be uncomfortable selling tops to my friends, real luthiers, and luthier wanabees like me, from the "bottom of the stack." And yet, I want to keep the stuff at the "top of the stack."

I haven't really taken the time to figure out which tops belong at the middle of the stack (high quality, but not the best I personally own), that I probably will eventually want to sell. Once I cull out the few sonic duds, I'll probably make back reinforcement strips from those.

So that's what I mean by "overloaded with soundboard material", and why I'm hoping someone will have an unusual back & side set in their stash - maybe something that is a duplicate for them - and I could trade the ivory for that. Another thing I'd consider for part or all of a trade would be Gotoh 510 set(s), even used sets in good condition with a 16:1, 18:1, or 21:1 ratio.

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia