Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
Aw, man! Only a one off? Oh well, maybe if JH likes the job enough, he'll authorize a few more...

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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
I believe this is the one Paul made in '07.cjj wrote:Aw, man! Only a one off? Oh well, maybe if JH likes the job enough, he'll authorize a few more...
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
Sounds like it, though I didn't remember the year.jps wrote:I believe this is the one Paul made in '07.cjj wrote:Aw, man! Only a one off? Oh well, maybe if JH likes the job enough, he'll authorize a few more...
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
Hey Jeff and John,
Can you guys get different insects for your avatars?
When you both post on the same thread it gets kind of creepy around here . . .
Can you guys get different insects for your avatars?
When you both post on the same thread it gets kind of creepy around here . . .
Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
I remember that one in '07. It played real sweet.johnallg wrote:Sounds like it, though I didn't remember the year.jps wrote:I believe this is the one Paul made in '07.cjj wrote:Aw, man! Only a one off? Oh well, maybe if JH likes the job enough, he'll authorize a few more...
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
If it is that one, I saw it at Paul's former house when Shari & I were visiting in the bay area in May of '07, that is how I remember the date.
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
Nope. This photo was taken last weekend.jps wrote:I believe this is the one Paul made in '07.cjj wrote:Aw, man! Only a one off? Oh well, maybe if JH likes the job enough, he'll authorize a few more...
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Note: This one is double-bound...
Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
...yeah, I kept wondering about that, something didn't seem right, fuzzy memory and no pics to back it up, etc................. What finish, Paul?
Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
I'm changing mine back - it is not creepy but aggravating. I though if everyone saw CJ, me, and a couple others use it, they would change too. THAT would be creepy. Didn't happen.libratune wrote:Hey Jeff and John,
Can you guys get different insects for your avatars?
When you both post on the same thread it gets kind of creepy around here . . .
Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
Paul, so it is another. Keep us "in the loop" of its progress, if you will.
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
Paul's first one was a round-top, shown here luxuriously relaxing on the sofa in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Santa Ana.
As far as I can tell, checker binding was never used on the doublebound '5s, just on the backs of the round-tops until probably 1973 or so.
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
Should have known better on the CB - and should have known Paul W would be 100% accurate
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
For Gil?jingle_jangle wrote:It's a one-off...OK'd by JH.
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
Well, it received its first color coats on Tuesday, and its first varnish coats yesterday...I made the truss rods yesterday.johnallg wrote:Paul, so it is another. Keep us "in the loop" of its progress, if you will.
It's progressing.
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Re: Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?
berth wrote:For Gil?jingle_jangle wrote:It's a one-off...OK'd by JH.
Hehe, I WISH
So long and thanks for all the fish!
