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Yes. It's over on Reverb now because he wanted me to list it for him. I know techs don't like working on them but there is a market for them.

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Sorry for the ignorance, but are these really that much easier to move around vs. the entire organ? Don't these things still weigh a ton? Guess I never understood the appeal of these but then again I'm a purist.

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Sorry for the ignorance, but are these really that much easier to move around vs. the entire organ? Don't these things still weigh a ton? Guess I never understood the appeal of these but then again I'm a purist.

 

Yes and no. A 200 lb chop can be efficiently handled by a couple guys, while a 325 lb full console requires more bodies, and goes thru doors a lot less easily. Still, a chop requires commitment to gig without roadies.

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You bump your legs and knees moving a console cabinet. Not the case with a chop, but they are not much lighter.

 

My (vintage not new) Porta-B is basically a chopped L-100. It's a lot lighter than a console organ and I figured out how to set it up myself, but I never had (nor do I want) anything heavier.

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Sorry for the ignorance, but are these really that much easier to move around vs. the entire organ? Don't these things still weigh a ton? Guess I never understood the appeal of these but then again I'm a purist.

 

Yes and no. A 200 lb chop can be efficiently handled by a couple guys, while a 325 lb full console requires more bodies, and goes thru doors a lot less easily. Still, a chop requires commitment to gig without roadies.

 

It was an idea to help people gig. Everyone I saw years ago. Santana, Neville Brothers, and Robert Cray's keyboard player used one. People think chopping legs off a console make it lighter but that isn't where the weight is, it's the tone generator and manuals. The chops just make it manageable.

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The best reason to chop a Hammond is so the organ would fit in the Silver Eagle cargo bays. Never found a Chop particularly easier to handle than an intact organ on ROKs. Like Jason says the weight isn"t in the legs. Its a lot easier to grab and move a B cabinet than stoop over and pick up a chop. ... But you had to get it on the bus somehow. ð

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In the 80's I had a hideously chopped A100, spray painted black, pipe legs attached with wheels. Put a band guy on each corner and it was a breeze to lift in and out of a U Haul. It was my 1st experience with anything Hammond. I didn't have a Leslie, instead used an analogue Leslie FX pedal made by Firstman (would be surprised if anyone else here had heard of that one) . I used to joke about putting a transmission on it so I could just drive it to the gig, what with the motor and all.

 

Being an idiot and also being a dirt poor college student, when the transformer blew out I traded it for a used 70's Yamaha SK20, which I thought kicked the Korg CX3's butt as a B3 clone, due to a better Leslie effect.

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If there was ever a relevant necrothread it would be this one. Yay!

I recently inherited an abandoned M chop project that needed rescue.

Bear in mind that it"s not a '3' so it has a reduced value to begin with.

It might sound a little irreverent but due to space limitations I had to gut the whole thing and dump the guts into a large yard trash can. Even without any of the cabinetry the trash can is too heavy to lift. But I"ve got every single part and just came across a 'free '3' that might need a few parts itself. But no chops happening here.

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Me again. And Speaking of chops I did one waay back in the seventies where I separated the generators(yes there were two in this beast) from the console and mounted the 'console' directly to a set of ROKS by way of a couple of 1x1 beams

Much more to tell but it"s getting noisey here.

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my c3 chop was originally configured in two pieces with the tone generator in a separate cabinet along with the pedal contacts . was able to fit the whole organ in the back of my

'81 dodge colt ( minus anything else of course ) eventually put the generator back with the keyboards along with a trek2 preamp . i don't move it anymore , it's been parked basically

in the same spot for years . the whole chop concepts' been likened to putting an anvil in a paper bag . i think that about sums it up .

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Yes it is a bev. on the leslie. It was empty if that saves me at all(lol). The start switches and the vol. conn.(1/4' in/out) are on the back panel wich is located back right of the machine.

 

I was hoping to install removable wheels to the back panel but I don`t think that`s gonna work anymore. There`s just no room for them w/ this set-up. I need to come up w/ a solution though just for easy of moving it. I`m open to any ideas if anyone has any.

 

 

Looks like fun.

 

Haven't read the entire thread. Look for a high quality folding dolly, much bigger wheels than you would install on your instruments so smoother ride over bumps.

And, you can use one thing to move everything.

 

Somehow I left mine at an outdoor gig a few years ago, sucks to be me. I've transitioned to lightweight gear and a small foldable luggage carrier does the trick now.

It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is.
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