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Location: Asheville, NC | After much deliberation, and reading of helpful tips on this site, I went to the local shop and played a few different Ovations.
I have decided on a Natural finish 1778 LX.
It had a beautiful sound...plus some sticker shock.
I'll take the plunge next week.
Thanks again for all the feedback.
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| I have that one in natural, and I have no regrets whatsoever. Great tone and it's beautiful! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | What he said but in my house!
Check out the Gallery! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Good choice. I don't own one, but have played them and really think they are nice for the money. Great looking too. |
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Location: Eugene, OR | I so much look forward to the 12 string version of this, to be out soon. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, excellent choice. |
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Location: NC | Great choice...I have the 6778 LX and love this guitar! :) |
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Location: Bainbridge, PA | I love mine. You won't be disappointed. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | You won't be disappointed with any LX. |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | I have a 1778 LX in Black Cherry Burst. It is a stunning guitar and plays very well. You will not be disapointed and it will just get better. |
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Location: SoCal | Jim:
If you want to get over your sticker shock, go play the Legend LX next to any Taylor in the store. Then have somebody else play them while you listen. Then look at the cost of the Taylor and you'll quickly realize what a great bargin the LX is. More guitar, less money. For what you get, it's dirt cheap. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Piers: Can you post a picture of your 1778 for us? |
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Location: Asheville, NC | Thanks for all the great feedback. My 1778LX should arrive within 5-7 days.
I can't wait :D
BTW, I found an online price that could not be beat, so some of the sticker shock is gone :) |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Hizzoner
I will try an get a digital photo of my 1778-BCB done soon, as I do not have a digital camera at the moment ( My Cell Phone has it but it will be poor resolution). Here is hoping that Santa Claus is listening and he brings me one down the chimney in December.
Happy Thanks Giving to all you guys on the other side of the pond.
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Location: NW NJ | I think that Santa probably knows - He knows everything! |
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Location: Asheville, NC | According to "tracking" it looks like my Santa (UPS) will be here on Wednesday :D |
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Location: NC | Stark-
Which color did you get?
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | Congrats on your new axe...I too just purchased a 1778-4 LX Elite/Natural. It has a really nice top with lots of silk. It was love at first play...I had to have it. Really like the look too! Plays like butta
My 1778 LX-4 |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Isn't it great when a guitar talks to you?
"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind". -written on an anonymous guitar case! |
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Which color did you get?>
I ordered it in Natural. I thought it had the best look to me. I like the look of some of the sunbursts, but not on this guitar.
I also just checked the UPS tracking and it looks like it will be arriving TOMORROW !
From Connecticut
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Location: NC | Whooo Hoooo Stark............it's like Christmas for adults waiting for the FedEx or UPS guy or gal to come. You'll love it......maybe we can get together and hammer a few X-Mas tunes out. :o |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | Starkahuna...hey whazz up... I live in Asheville too. Just bought an Elite LX from Music City on Patton. We should get together and jam! |
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Location: Asheville, NC | The Ovation arrived direct from Connecticut today.
It looked and sounded great, then I noticed what appeared to be 4 air bubble holes in the finish.
Very small but noticeable once I got past the intial joy of looking at it. They are just below the Bridge and near the middle.
So I looked even closer and also found some small scratches on part of the inlay.
It became like a tooth with and ache that you cannot keep from putting your tongue in it.
All I kept noticing was the small holes in the finish, and the scratches.
So after an hour of this I called Massmusic.
They apologized, and said that they would be contacting Ovation to send me out another one, plus issuing a call tag for this one to be picked up.
They told me Ovation usually really goes over each guitar looking for anything wrong. This one probably just got past quality control.
I wouldn't normally be so picky with things, but for the price being paid....
It says alot for the company, when it stands behind it's products like this.
Anyway, It is a great sounding work of art and I look forward to it's replacement eagerly. In the meantime I'll have to get acquainted with this one. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Asheville, NC | Hmmmm...
EliteLX and Elite04
That makes 3 of us in the Asheville area.
We got enough for a band
;)
Maybe we could call ourselves the "Eliteists" ;) |
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Location: NC | Elite04.....I think I played that same guitar on Patton Ave. I went there due to them being the only dealer around and played a natural LX and I think it was the only one they had for the longest time. Sweeeet! :D
We definitely need to get together and talk "O's"! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Nice to hear from North Carolina
I went through basic training with a guy from Hendersonville, and we travelled all over the country together. We ended up in Virginia, where he married a very wealthy girl on a leave back home to Asheville, and showed back up at Ft Eustis with a wedding present of a brand new '54 Pontiac Bonneville and a new wife, and rented an apartment in Williamsburg, VA and entertained us ordinary dogies in great style. His name was Elliot, but I can't remember if that was first or last.
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Location: Houston, TX | I really miss the beauty of the Asheville area. I was born in Murphy, grew up in Morganton, and went to college in Swannanoa. I've lived in Houston for 15 years, so I realize now that I took that area for granted when I was growing up. I sure would like to just take a walk somewhere around Montreat, or Linville, or Weaverville, or Black Mountain, or even just the Warren Wilson campus for a few hours.
Congratulations on your O. |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | Stark and LX check your emails....Stark, sorry to hear about imperfections in your new arrival. I'm sure they will fix you up. As for the sound...how's your first impression with that? I was blown away after the first riff. Couldn't get it out of my mind and at the risk of divorce went back with plastic...now that the little ladies over it I'm glad I asked for forgiveness as opposed to begging for permission. Early Christmas present...ha
Because I heard the following week
from the salesman @ Music City, someone came back to buy it a few days after I bought it...was that you Stark? (insert smile)
I always try to trade locally if the price is right and I like to see what I'm buying case in point. I do think I got a very nice example, haven't found any visual human errors thus far...too busy playing it. But I do have a problem with the pickup...Ovation is sending me a new pickup housing, hopefully to correct that. |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | I'm trying to put apicture in? Not sure if it will work?
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Location: Asheville, NC | Elite04,
It wasn't me who returned to the store, but I had been in to see the guitar there, prior to my purchasing. When I was there, he had a problem pulling the preamp to show me how to change the battery, but it didn't seem like much of an issue. Glad to hear that Ovation is taking care of it for you.
I would have done the local purchase thing, but I was able to save a few ;-) dollars online, and it included the case for well below what the local guy was asking.
Anyway, the sound is unbelieveable. I have been so used to my Guild 12 string that I think I forgot how a 6 string sounds. This is one Great Guitar !! :D
I did check my email too!
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Hizzoner - Guess what came down the Chimney? |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Hizzoner - Yes, as requested, Santa delivered a digital camera and I have already taken some photos of the 1778-LX-BCB in the fire place. I have tried to load the photos onto the web site, but with no success yet, but I will get it right soon.
Happy New Year to you all.
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Location: Asheville, NC | Back at ya |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | Here's a couple pics of mine...I love it... Nicest O I've ever owned!
Elite LX
Elite LX 1778-AAA Natural |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Beautiful guitars.
Wonder if the OFC will have a top like that???
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Location: Midland, MI | That's a great looking -4 Elite you have there. Congratulations! |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | Thanks fine folks...it has such a great tone..unlike any of the other Ovations I had over the years. This one sounded really good from day one but has really opened up over the last few months. I swear it's a AAA top. The picture doesn't do it justice and I added some ebony buttons..sweet
What's the OFC? |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by MWoody:
Ovation
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I thought it was:
Ovation Frickinaddicted Club |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | So why did Bailey ask if the OFC would have a top like that? Just wondering?
Thanks |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by sixfingers:
So why did Bailey ask if the OFC would have a top like that? Just wondering?
Thanks
because he did not pay attention, he did the brown acid when he was not suppposed to. It is not that it was poison, it was just manufactured poorly. |
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Location: NJ | ". . the Blue BellaDonna is cool, . . . . but the Brown Strychnine has been laced with Acid . . . . so watch it!! . . ."
- John Belushi.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Damn
Al is healthy again and kicking a%^ (cans in the street, for those who don't understand a%^).
There is a plan afoot to deny the OFC as even existing, in WWII General Patton was in charge of an effort to mislead the Germans, they faked tanks, trucks etc. to make the Germans think they were massing to invade somewhere other than Normandy. Infiltrating the Al and learning the truth about the OFC will require the skill of a KGB operative.
Zrastvetchea Tovarisch, kak vie, Ioshchenko lives!!
Infiltration is now begun.
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Location: NW NJ | Sixfingers:
The real reason is that alot of us in the OFC have wanted Ovation (the mothership) to issue an OFC Limited Edition guitar for some time now. It looks like this year, they will, thanks in great measure to Al and others. Needless to say, we are VERY excited... :D |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | Thank you worshipleader! That'all I was asking and apparently a few of the others were confused from the lysergic acid roaming around in their brains from the 60's.. :D |
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