BLACK AND BLUE...

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ajish4 wrote:
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BUT since we're on the mural theme, how about one like this......ONLY not for my 71! :lol:

For where I play, this would fit in perfectly! :twisted:
Egad! That's hideous! If people are going to do things like this I wish they would learn to draw first....
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jwilli wrote:BTW, I will be using this 615 as a shaving mirror
Are you telling us that because you have so many Rics, you've resorted to hanging them in the bathroom.
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wmthor wrote:
jwilli wrote:BTW, I will be using this 615 as a shaving mirror
Are you telling us that because you have so many Rics, you've resorted to hanging them in the bathroom.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I was hoping that my wife notice them....... :lol:
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I meant to post that I hope my wife DOESN'T notice them....BTW, how is the new avatar? :D
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henry5 wrote:
ajish4 wrote:
jingle_jangle wrote:
BUT since we're on the mural theme, how about one like this......ONLY not for my 71! :lol:

For where I play, this would fit in perfectly! :twisted:
Egad! That's hideous! If people are going to do things like this I wish they would learn to draw first....
I can't draw a stick figure.... so to me, this is pretty cool...

The guy had a STARTING bid of $2500.00 IF I remember correctly, it never sold for some reason! :twisted: The guy said an ARTIST in California did it with a link to his site....It was only posted once, and it never surfaced again!

John, you are a very luck man! 8)
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jwilli wrote:BTW, how is the new avatar? :D
Kind of yellow...you have bug lights in your bathroom, Jwilli?
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jingle_jangle wrote:
jwilli wrote:BTW, how is the new avatar? :D
Kind of yellow...you have bug lights in your bathroom, Jwilli?

Yep, the only kind of bugs I like are...Beatles.... 8)
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Stunning, Paul----well done as always. 8)

It seems so "plain" or "simple," but there is simply nothing like a properly done, deep jetglo black finish. It's shockingly black.

In the wise words of Nigel Tufnel-----"It's like, how much more black can it get? And the answer is none. None more black." :lol:
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...and, oddly, Collin, I've done very few Jetglo instruments for their owners; perhaps a half-dozen in all, out of over a hundred refinishes on my books. Anyway, Jwilli's seems to have been the blackest, probably because this time around it's black-on-black.
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Yeah...that is strange. Maybe people want something a bit more exotic than a standard available Jetglo.

Yet, from my recent acquisition of a brand new Jetglo.....there is a HUGE difference between a proper, deep glass-like Jetglo like you're shown, and a new JG (at least the one I received..).

Maybe I'll have to up your Jetglo-tally with a project in the near future....hmmmm.... 8)
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The only difference between "my" JG and the new factory JG is the level of gloss given by the Scratch Doctor/Zymol treatment, which I do, the factory doesn't have time to do, and which any owner can do.
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BTW...the reason I picked JG for the '64 615 is easy. It was originally JG. That seems kind of rare for '64! I bet 80% of their instruments were FG that year. Maybe even higher.
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jwilli wrote:I meant to post that I hope my wife DOESN'T notice them....BTW, how is the new avatar? :D
Looooking good. :wink:

I figured if you were using the JG for a shaving mirror, and taking off the beard, you'd need a new avatar.

I've found that if you keep getting them out and moving them around she loses track of how many. :lol:
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johnallg wrote:
jwilli wrote:I meant to post that I hope my wife DOESN'T notice them....BTW, how is the new avatar? :D
Looooking good. :wink:

I figured if you were using the JG for a shaving mirror, and taking off the beard, you'd need a new avatar.

I've found that if you keep getting them out and moving them around she loses track of how many. :lol:
Doesn't work for me, my wife seems to have a way with keeping track of numbers, of course, she spent most of her professional life as a bookkeeper...
:( :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Just wanted to say.....although the 615 JG was a "Plain Jane" model....PW's expertise turned it into a Super Model. By far the best JG I have ever seen. Whoa... :shock:
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