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Once again thanks to all of you are your thoughts and opinions and more detailed analysis.
Greatly appreciated

Steve Bliven wrote:

MichaelRS wrote:With that in mind, anybody have anything in particular negative to say about some aspect of the playability with the O'Briain?

They don't play well under water....

Best wishes.

Steve

Damn! Well, there goes that idea.

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If you have received and played a Cillian O'Briain improved Feadog and/or a Freeman Blackbird over the last year or so... What do you think of them? How do they compare? Did you find the O'Briain sufficiently "improved" to be worth 5 times as much as the original Feadog it's modified from?...

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Sorry. I have no idea how I posted this twice. Can't seem to delete it so just have to write the "excuse me" in here. I have the larger one. Got it years ago. For me it's just a larger resource. You don't have to use anything but what you want to out of it, but the more the merrier. Kind o...

I have the larger one. Got it years ago. For me it's just a larger resource. You don't have to use anything but what you want to out of it, but the more the merrier. Kind of like taking a jacket with you when you go out in case it's gets too cold. You don't have to wear it, but if you need to you ha...

Thank you all. I believe I'm going to be ordering the G at the first of the month.

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------- sealing all of the holes can be a challenge for us newbies. I've found that applying a little skin moisterizing lotion to my hands before I play seems to help. This probably sounds a bit silly and may not apply to everybody. I'm an older guy with dry older guy skin, and the lotion really se...

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