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Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 08, 2006, 08:54:31 AM

Yes, the legendary Olympic guitar actualy exists!  See it here.  (I wonder if people keep calling it Alembic by mistake?)
 
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/msg/217428923.html (http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/msg/217428923.html)
 
Bill, tgo

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: richbass939 on October 08, 2006, 09:01:40 AM

Bill, are you going to buy this one just so you can truthfully say that you own an Olympic?
Rich

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 08, 2006, 09:08:18 AM

Rich:
 
Given as this weekend has been dedicated to building shelving over the closet in my den so that I can stack about ten guitar cases on this loft-like shelf, get them off the floor, and make my wife happy, another guitar is not in the program at the moment.  Though I have thought about it as a joke.  But gee, if you're really interested, the seller is only a hop, skip, and a jump over the hill or throught the tunnel from here.  You pay shipping handling and insurance.  LOL
 
Bill, tgo

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: richbass939 on October 08, 2006, 10:16:52 AM

Bill,
Thanks for the offer.  I agree that it would be worth $100 as a joke to have an genuine Olympic.  The next time someone asks what my basses are and then asks, Olympic?, I could actually say, This isn't an Olympic, but I do have one at home.
I haven't owned a guitar in 35 years but I've entertained the idea of getting one.  Lately the gigs I've played have involved a lot of responding to the guitarist's chord changes rather than knowing where the tune was going. I think it would help me out a lot to learn more guitar.  Besides the kids have been fairly consistently asking to take up guitar.  It'll happen one of these days, I'm sure.
Rich

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: dwmark on October 08, 2006, 01:10:04 PM

Bill
 
Hate to hijack this thread, as one of my favorite band moments was letting my drummer in on the Olympic/Alembic joke, but, can we get you to share the shelving design?  A lot of us have a similar number of wives and cases as yours and could use the help.
 
dw

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 09, 2006, 06:52:57 AM

David:
 
I kind of blindly designed it myself as I went along.  The area presented a problem as it is over a wall-to-wall closet with no place for the traditional brackets on the ends.  The space is about 111, so I used two boards of 3/4 plywood, each 55 x 18.  I'll take a pic tonight and post it.  
 
Bill, tgo
 
(P.S. - my wife is now happy!)

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: georgie_boy on October 09, 2006, 06:56:22 AM

My wife is now happy!
Bill-you must be the only one in the Western hemisphere whose wife is happy!
Congrats
George (the cynical one)

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 09, 2006, 09:37:32 PM

Here's some pictures of the guitar shelf.  A real Home Depot special - about $110 in materials, a bit of head scratching, a mess, and viola!  O.K., maybe not the Alembic of shelves, but it is a custom!  Bill, tgo  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/32298.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/32299.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/32300.jpg)

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: jalevinemd on October 09, 2006, 09:56:02 PM

Bill,
 
Maybe it's not the Alembic of shelves. But do you trust your carpentry skills enough to put your Alembics on the shelf?

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 10, 2006, 07:27:42 AM

Jonathan:
 
The Electrum is up there, lower right.  While I trust my carpentry skills enough for this project, I'm not so trusting about mother nature in these here parts.  Next weekend I'm adding a hook in the ceiling in the middle of each shelf that will connect to a bungee, the other end of which will hook into a hole in the front middle of each shelf.  This should keep the cases up there in the event of an earthquake.
 
Bill, tgo

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: jet_powers on October 10, 2006, 07:43:19 AM

Ah yes! Seismic considerations. I wouldn't have thought of that here in New England.
 
Oh, and sorry Bill, GO TIGERS!!!
 
JP

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 10, 2006, 09:21:14 AM

John:
 
I didn't know you were an LSU football fan!  Certainly you can't be talking about the Detroit baseball team.  If so, I feel sorry for you as they don't stand a chance against Zito, (he's a guitar player), the Big Hurt, the Little Hurt (Marco Scutaro), and the rest of the A's.  After all, the A's share the same air as Alembic - can't be beat!
GO OAKLAND!
 
Bill, tgo

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: jet_powers on October 10, 2006, 10:00:18 AM

Bill, I'm going to have to play the sympathy card, I'm a Red Sox fan. At least they won't be in the A's way this year! Maybe the A's will take Keith Foulke back?
 
JP

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: 57basstra on October 10, 2006, 10:30:25 AM

Go St. Louis Cardinals!

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 10, 2006, 10:55:48 AM

John:
 
A RED SUCKS FAN!!!!!!  
 
Oh yea, howzabout this:  
 
Bill Buckner
 
Bucky Dent
 
We kicked but on the Red Sucks this year.
 
Take Keith back?  When we've got Huston Street?  
 
Foulke off!  (sorry, couldn't resist)
 
Bill, tgo

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: jet_powers on October 10, 2006, 12:47:40 PM

Wow! That's harsh! It's environment that made me a Red Sux fan.... It's not by choice really.
 
The Royals kicked the Sox butt this year, so that's not really an accomplishment! Good luck to the A's but I'm still pulling for Detroit!
 
Just to show us Sux fans do have a sense of humor....
 
Q. If Fenway Franks and Yankee Franks are made by the same company, what's the difference?
 
A. You can't get a Fenway Frank in October.
 
JP

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: richbass939 on October 11, 2006, 05:50:20 AM

Bill, sorry to hijack this thread back to its second topic.
about $110 in materials, a bit of head scratching, a mess, and viola!
I see the materials, can imagine the head scratching, and can definitely see the mess, but I don't see the viola.  I didn't know you had a viola.
Rich

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 11, 2006, 07:12:48 AM

John:
 
Yea, I guess it was a little harsh, but you have to understand my instinctive reaction to anything Red Sox - when I grew up in NY, my dad's office was literally across the street from Yankee Stadium.  Mickey MAntle was, and still is, my favorite ballplayer.  I've been going to A's games since moving to the Bay Area in late '77 and have been a season ticket holder for 16 years or so. Yet I have only stopped co-rooting for the Yanekees in the last 10 years as I became more and more disgusted with George and the growing disparity in $ spent by the Yankees (and now the Red Sox too) and everyone else.  I do have to say that when I visted Fenway Park in 1986, it had the worst food of any major league stadium I've ever been too!
 
Rich:
 
Good eye.  While viola is usually used to describe a violin with a thyroid problem, in this case it is dyslexic french, meaning look honey, I'm finished.  The freakin' guitar cases are out of the way, can I go to the studio now, please?  
 
Bill, tgo

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: jet_powers on October 11, 2006, 02:23:59 PM

Bill,
 
Ah, I didn't know about the NY connection...
 
I grew up on the west coast and I suppose I should have been a Giants or A's fan but somehow adopted the Twins as my team. After moving to Mass. for my high school years the Sox were the home team and oh well, at least I didn't have to root for the Cubs.... The money aspect of baseball you mentioned makes me wish that game had a salary cap too. If Fenway grub was the worst you've had, apparently you've never been to the old Tiger Stadium! As I recall from my 2003 trip to Yankee Stadium there wasn't much difference between there and Fenway except I believe Fenway is about the best place to catch a MLB game.....
 
JP

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: keith_h on October 11, 2006, 02:41:42 PM

Hey watch what you say about the Cubs  :-) ... The only place I've ever been robbed was when I was 10 watching the Red Sox play the Angels at Fenway. I made the mistake of having to use the faclitites.  
 
Of course they ruined Wrigley by adding lights all in the name of the all mighty dollar but I would still rather see a game there than Fenway any day.  
 
Keith

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 11, 2006, 03:41:59 PM

This past summer my 11 year old boy and I did a baseball tour:  Games at Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, Camden Yards, and a trip to the Hall of Fame.  I've also been to Oakland Colesium, Candlestick, SBC (Giants), Old Yankee Stadium, Anaheim, Dodger Stadium, Coors Field, and the Polo Grounds (at least that's what I remember off the top of my head).  The best place to see a game among these IMHO is Camden Yards, hands down.
 
Just heard about Cory Lidle.  What a shame.  He pitched for the A's a couple of years ago and did a great job and seemed like a great guy (at least what I read in the papers).  Thurman Munson years ago, now this.  Being a Yankee and flying a plane is getting to be like playing keyboards for the Dead.
 
Bill, tgo

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: jet_powers on October 11, 2006, 03:55:15 PM

I've always imagined Wrigley would be a lot like Fenway, all the history, etc. I've nothing against the Cubs, in fact, I want to see them in the fall classic and win it. Hopefully against the Yankees! Camden is within a days drive from New England but I've yet to go. Everybody I know who have been say it's great.  
 
Keith, if it makes you feel any better I was robbed at Fenway this summer. $60 for parking and $7.50 a beer.... Of course Yankee stadium was getting that much for beer three years ago, I can only imagine what it is now.
 
JP

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: keith_h on October 11, 2006, 04:06:54 PM

I've only been to a few of the big league fields. Mostly Wrigley as I lived in the Chicago area through high school and a few years off and on after that. I have seen a couple of bonfires at the old Kominski Park. I've also been to the old Royals stadium and the Arrow Rock stadium. Neither were that impressive as I recall. Last there was Fenway as I mentioned.  
 
I've never been to  the Oakland Colesium or Candle  Stick (for baseball) but I was watching my TV from Morgan Hill as nature tried to rebalance the natural order during the Bay Bridge World Series.  
 
Keith

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: tbrannon on October 11, 2006, 06:14:57 PM

Bill-
Next time the A's play inter-league against the NL West, take a trip to San Diego to catch a game in Petco-
 
Beautiful park that incorporates a lot of the nice older architecture in San Diego.  Plus it's sitting in the Gaslamp District, which IMO is one of the nicest areas of San Diego.
 
Toby

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: tbrannon on October 11, 2006, 06:33:34 PM

Keith-
You're not missing a thing by having not been to Candlestick.  
 
I've never been as cold as I was at Candlestick Park in June.  I went to a late afternoon start game- we had our shirts off through the 4th and as the sun set, the temperature dropped from 75 to a windy 45 in the stretch of about 15 minutes.  I've honestly never felt colder.

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: tom_z on October 11, 2006, 07:14:26 PM

Ahhh Wrigley Field ... I grew up Northwest of Chicago and have seen many games there. It is truly an old school park. A real neighborhood park, Wrigley field, with it's red brick and ivy-covered walls is one of the last ballparks like those our grandfathers watched the game in. Fans are close to the field, and there are still a lot of day games. There really is nothing like a Cubs game. Win or loose it's a great place to grab a Vienna Red-hot and cold beer.
 
And ? just wait ?til next year!
 
Hey - Hey!
Holy Cow!
:-D
Tom

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: David Houck on October 29, 2006, 09:06:20 AM

Bill; I love the ceiling in your den!

Title: An Olympic Guitar - For Real!
Post by: lbpesq on October 29, 2006, 09:30:02 AM

Dave, thanks, so does senior management!
 
Bill, tgo