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Rick31797 said:
I remember seeing your classic.. mis/match top or whatever its a beauty.. love that color.You got a great price on it.. dont you wish you had bought 4 of them haha
Thats was a great story,If you could ever prove it was a proto-type, i think now, it would be worth more than a production one.
I wonder if a Yamaha rep could confirm this. Does the serial number reflect anything??
The designer of Weddington " Rich lasner now works for Vox as a designer.

According to Ebay you have pretty well double your money in 13 yrs, Not bad!! for a non-gibson.
And most all you have a great player.

I bought LP custom in 1982 brand new for $1800.00, 26 yrs later it still wouldnt have gained in value the way your Weddington classic has.

I would like to see a reissue also, it would be interesting , in this market we have now how original they would get with it.How much detail are they going to put into this guitar to satisfy the people wanting a reissued model.

I think Yamaha dealers hear the buzz out there about these guitar's and you get enough people inquiring about it, they will be forced to re-issue. You got too think that there reps see what there higher end Yamaha's are selling for on Ebay and the demand and bids they get.

But saying that, only 2 days to go for the custom on ebay and its very low.,( 622.00) if it ends up seling the same price as a classic then somebody got it for a decent price, but looks a bit marked up and is in need of a cleaning.


Rick
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The serial number appears to be nothing special. It's OJ28020 stamped into the back of the headstock. I don't have a clue whether any of the story is true. I think they just wanted to get rid of it.

The Custom is at $910 now, with almost 2 days left.
 
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weddington

I noticed the truss rod cover also.. probably a gibson guy did that..haha
This guy selling has a Weddington custom model he says isn't forsale. I have found a few guy's that have several weddington's and will decide to let a few go, but cant seem to sell all of them.

The guy i bought mine off of had 6 of them,
Rick
 
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weddington

I am surprised that other guitar makers have not copied the neck joint, buti guess like most things in the manufacturing world its a cost issue.
Rich lasner design the guitar and i think this was his vision of the perfect neck joint.He wanted to make a LP killer and that he did..
Rick
 
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Over the years I have seen it on Washburn, BC Rich, Jackson, Dean, Ibanez, ESP....many others.

There is nothing original or unique about that heel shape....it is just a plain sculpted heel. I think people are starting to drink Weddington Kool-Aid now.

Great guitars but they are hardly groundbreaking and they don't represent the apex of guitar building.
 
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I Huff Paint said:
They really should reissue this guitar. I have a Classic, and it is superior to a Les Paul in every way. The neck feels much faster, and is thinner and wider than a 60s slim taper LP neck. The body shape is more comfortable too, I suppose thanks to the belly cut.

I'd buy another one for sure.
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I used to have one too. The thin wide neck became, to me, a huge negative.
 
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weddington

I would like to see the other brands that have the contoured neck joint.. I have seen many guitars and have never come acrossed any.

Yes there are many Hoarders out there.. I know two guys that have atleast 5 of them, from the special to the custom

I bought a 1984 Fender flame elite 2 years ago, and come acrossed a guy that had 22 of them. Had every model and every color except for one color. They made one in frost pink, and nobody has ever seen one, other than in a
book.

I dont find the weddington neck wide.. I have always thought it was similar to my LP custom.
The Yamaha pacifica 1412 model i have, does have a wider neck.. My hands are big enough it dont bother me.. i find a smaller neck bother me more, like the one on a Rickenbacker 620 model.

Rick
 
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Well the Fernandes are a great guitar, i have played a few, but i am afraid the neck joint fails, in relation to compairing it too the weddington. Not even close.
If all these Guitars listed have the same neck joint.. then where are they.. I haven't seen all the ibanez guitars, but if any would have it , it would be that guitar, becuase Rich Lasner used to work as a Designer for them also, so i could see him using that, Type of neck joint.

Weddington Kool-aid i find more refreshing than Gibsion Kool-aid. There will be no one guitar manufacturer at the apex of guitar building because of the simple fact what i like may be what you don't like..there is no such thing as a perfect guitar.Only perfect for you.

But what Yamaha wanted to do is manufacture a line that was equal or more to a Gibson LP. And this was accomplished in this weddington design.


Rick
 
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Yamaha had been creating guitars equal or superior to Gibson well before the Weddingtons came into being, the Lord Players are fine guitars, get a 1200 model if you can find one...Lord Players should not be mistaken for the Studio Lords that came later, the LPs have the Gibson headstock. Plenty of SG-2000 owners that seem to be very happy too. Theres an SF-7000 locally but it`s over priced at the moment, soon as they drop the price I will have it, another fine Yamaha guitar, I actually own several myself.`course theres the TEG-100A, in case you have several thousands of dollars with nothin` to do and you can find one. The Image line looks pretty nice as well.
I see lots of OK Fernandes guitars in this city, but the one in the picture was just too good to leave in the shop, have a couple of others too, the Akira Wada P-Project is another exquisite Fernandes guitar I couldn`t pass on at 75% off the $2000.oo retail price...the local Yamaha shop was blowing everything out because they were remodeling the store, picked up a lot of nice stuff during that sale.
 
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Archer said:
Over the years I have seen it on Washburn, BC Rich, Jackson, Dean, Ibanez, ESP....many others.

There is nothing original or unique about that heel shape....it is just a plain sculpted heel. I think people are starting to drink Weddington Kool-Aid now.

Great guitars but they are hardly groundbreaking and they don't represent the apex of guitar building.
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Trust me, I've seen hundreds of sculpted heels, but none that are like that. Please post pics. Jackson don't even make set-neck guitars, so I doubt you've ever seen a Jackson with a heel like that.
 
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sneakypete said:
Yamaha had been creating guitars equal or superior to Gibson well before the Weddingtons came into being, the Lord Players are fine guitars, get a 1200 model if you can find one...Lord Players should not be mistaken for the Studio Lords that came later, the LPs have the Gibson headstock. Plenty of SG-2000 owners that seem to be very happy too. Theres an SF-7000 locally but it`s over priced at the moment, soon as they drop the price I will have it, another fine Yamaha guitar, I actually own several myself.`course theres the TEG-100A, in case you have several thousands of dollars with nothin` to do and you can find one. The Image line looks pretty nice as well.
I see lots of OK Fernandes guitars in this city, but the one in the picture was just too good to leave in the shop, have a couple of others too, the Akira Wada P-Project is another exquisite Fernandes guitar I couldn`t pass on at 75% off the $2000.oo retail price...the local Yamaha shop was blowing everything out because they were remodeling the store, picked up a lot of nice stuff during that sale.
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The Lord Players, and Studio Lords are indeed great guitars, as were many of the so-called Japanese "lawsuit" guitars. I have a 1980 Aria Pro II LS-600, which is an exapt copy of an LP Standard, and plays better than many Gibbys I've tried.
 
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