Author Topic: An Olympic Guitar - For Real! (Read 458 times)

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

Bill, tgo

richbass939 · « **Reply #1 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

lbpesq · « **Reply #2 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

richbass939 · « **Reply #3 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

dwmark · « **Reply #4 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

lbpesq · « **Reply #5 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!)

georgie_boy · « **Reply #6 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)

lbpesq · « **Reply #7 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

jalevinemd · « **Reply #8 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?

lbpesq · « **Reply #9 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

jet_powers · « **Reply #10 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

lbpesq · « **Reply #11 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

jet_powers · « **Reply #12 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

57basstra · « **Reply #13 on:** October 10, 2006, 10:30:25 AM »

Go St. Louis Cardinals!

lbpesq · « **Reply #14 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