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Chippy
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 12:17 pm: | 
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it worked! i've never posted a pic b4.
so, left to right: gibson lp studio, the wife's yamaha acoustic, and my most prized possession, my grandmother's old '52 gibson lh-5. this is the most melancholy sounding guitar i've ever heard. |
Jimduncan69
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 01:00 pm: |
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wow! your wife play's too. that is pretty cool. |
Court
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 01:12 pm: |
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That 1952 Gibson is incredible looking. The L-5 series is THE standard among archtops. |
Lemonchili_x1
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 07:09 am: |
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Mmmm... L-5... drool, drool, drool... Beautiful.
If I ever write that hit single, I'd like to get a Gibson Super 400  |
Bcordb3
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 08:49 am: |
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Jon is that Uke a Kamaka by any chance? Cool collection. |
Gentleman_jon
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 09:40 am: |
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Guitars are nice.
Used to have a couple of old Martins and Gibsons myself.
All acoustical. NY Martin, Gibson J 200 that kind of thing.
Nothing the matter with a few cameras though, is there?
Easier to display, and they don't have to be tuned!
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Bcordb3
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 10:21 am: |
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Jon does the light meter on the Nikon FTN with the Photomic head work? How are the mirrors?
I used to do a lot of stuff with Polaroid, image transfer etc, and the neat thing with my SX70 manipulating the image with the heat from my hand.
(Message edited by BCordb3 on January 22, 2009) |
Gentleman_jon
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 11:00 am: |
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Bill, you have sharp eyes to see the FTn. I don't know if the lightmeter on it works.
As you can imagine, finding and buying batteries for all these cameras would be a big and expensive job, especially as many of the batteries are obsolete.
As you know, most of these meters do not work anymore, but they can be fixed by certain specialists.
The mirrors are fine.
I have put this collection together over the last ten years, mostly at yard sales. Now that digital photography is the norm, I realize that this collection pretty much illustrates the mechanical roll film camera from 1928, (Leica Model l), through the end, which I am tentatively dating as 1965, (Nikon F3, which will work without batteries, at one shutter speed).
Lots of people ask if I have taken a picture with every camera. The answer is no. That would be a huge task, and not particularly rewarding. Since I started taking pictures fifty years ago, I have used cameras like most of the ones in the collection.
I now work exclusively with Canon digital cameras, the IDs Mk lll and the G10. Here is my web site which shows my current work.
www.photomorse.com |
Court
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 03:36 pm: |
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>>>>but they can be fixed by certain specialists.
I'd reccommend Photo-Tech on 13th Street. If you need me to check, drop me a note, I'll be there at 4:45 to pick up a completely rebuilt Nikon DSLR and lens. They are REALLY good.
By the way . . . I totally think you are very cool but if you sold a J-200 I have no choice but to kick your ass.
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Gentleman_jon
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 04:08 pm: |
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Court -
Thanks for the tip on Photo Tech.
If I started fixing all the cameras I have that don't work, I'd go broke. I have about a 120 of them at last count.
I know what you mean about selling the J-200. Dumb.
But,- it seemed like a good idea at the time. When I was in college there was a hot folk music scene in Boston, and I was buying and selling guitars all the time. Wish I had kept them all.
I think I sold that J-200 to a folk singer named Eric Andersen. He just had to have it, no stopping him.
I am not going to torture you by telling you how much I got for it. It would hurt both of us too much. I doubt the dude is still playing it, it weighed a ton. He's still touring though.
Sold a NY Martin to Joanie Baez, an good friend in those days. She gave it to her sister, Mimi. Should of kept both of them. The guitars that is.
PS: Did you get the tee shirt? Sent it Tuesday. |
Court
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 08:30 pm: |
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>>>I am not going to torture you by telling you how much I got for it.
You can't hurt me. I'm climbed the mountain of stupidity . . . sold my brand new 1965 Gibson Melody Maker and Gibson Skylark amp to Karl Miller for $100.
That's the reason that, even though it doesn't really get ridden any more the Cushman stays and so does the J-40.
Yeah . . getting into a "who's the biggest idiot" contest with me is a fool's pursuit. |
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