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Location: Texas | If you had to only keep 1 Ovation, only 1 that you already have and had to sell all of the other Ovations you currently own, which model would you keep?
Hard question because I know most of us have more than one Ovation.
As much as I love both my Adamas I and II, I would have to go with nylon strings as my only guitar, so the only Ovation I would keep is:
My 1984 Sunburst Country Artist Cutaway 1674
How about you?
Serge :p
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Location: SoCal | Everytime I get a different Ovation, it's always my new favorite. But push come to shove, if I could only keep just one, it would be my 1537 Elite. It's 21 years old and I've had it for the last 11. It's what I always come back to. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Having only one roundback today. I implore the members of this thread to help me, that I might make an informed decision.
Send me your tired, your poor, your huddled guitars yearning to be humidified... ;) |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | easy... 2001 Collector's Redwood. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | My 2000 Collectors, Australian Lacewood, Transparent Honey (even sounds sexy, doesn't it?) |
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Location: NJ | hmmm . . .
That's a TOUGH one.
As much as I would die (and/or kill) for my SlotHead . . .
If it came down to JUST one guitar, I think it'd have to be my CBalladeer.
First guitar I ever bought. Been with me a long while, and has gotten me through some tough times.
Kinda' like Willie's "Trigger".
I couldn't conscionably part with it. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I love the Balladeer that I have owned for 33 years but if I had to, I'd keep my new Al DiMeola because of the electronics.
Wait...does that mean my Breadwinner has to go? Hmmm. I'll by a Gibson sticker, put it on the headstock and nobody will know the better.
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Next thing ya know we will be playing the "If we are on a lifeboat and one OFC member has to go" game.
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Location: Denver, Colorado | I have actually faced this situation. Just 6 months ago, I said goodbye to my black 1866. But my 1617 (sunburst) Legend will stay by my side till the day I die. I bought her new in the eighties and she has never let me down. I play her constantly and have only needed one neck adjustment in all these years. She shows her age with a few cracks,wrinkles and she needs some fret work, but we are growing old together as I have a few cracks and wrinkles myself! |
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Location: SoCal | as I told Serge, not fair as at least we could discern between nylon, steel, 6-str, or 12-str.
so, never one to follow rules:
nylon: 1763 Classic over the CA
steel, 6-str: 30th Anniv Custom Legend
steel, 12-str: 1658 slothead Custom Legend (natural) |
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Location: Texas | Just one Ovation Tony, not one of each style! :rolleyes:
Well, my one steel would be my 1687-8 Blue Adamas I
And my mandolin? well,..................
Serge
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Serge, You didn't ask the question quite right. Too many loop holes. For example the obvious answer would be to keep the one that would the most difficult to replace. Maybe my CL is my "favorite" guitar, but I also know that I could replace it tomorrow if I had to. So you have to add the stipulation that you can never aquire another guitar for the rest of your life.
So, that being the case I would have to say '68 Josh White. It's not my best sounding guitar or my most valuable guitar. Doesn't even have the most sentimental value. But given the restriction of one guitar for the rest of my life - that one would probably be IT. Plus of course a lifetime supply of strings and picks. |
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Location: Texas | Good one, Dave
:( :D :p :rolleyes: :confused:
Serge
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Well this is much easier for some of us that don't own so many. :(
Legend 1867 - it's my workhorse.
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Location: Vermont USA | Well I only have one Guitar and I'm not parting with it, so there. You dont want to mess with me cause your not ready, Do you feel lucky, go ahead make my day, I'll be back.
:( :rolleyes: :cool: :eek: :)
Love Ya Man
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Location: Vernon, CT | Of the five O's I have I would keep my new Custom Legend 1779-USA period! Play On!
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Location: Vernon, CT | Of the five O's I have I would keep my new Custom Legend 1779-USA period! Play On!
John L. |
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Location: SoCal | With the new question, it would still be my 1537. |
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Location: The Shop | My one of a kind Elite T Bass! Only one in the world.( so far) |
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Location: Central Florida | Tough question, but if it HAD to be just one I'd have to go with my '81 1619-4 Custom Legend. For me, that one represents absolute perfection in a guitar.
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | ok, i have locked myself in my studio with my magnesiun 25mm flare gun and enough food, water, mother agave and strings to last till there is an official moratorium on this one ovation business. how could i wear my ofc hat topped head high with only one? couldn't we make it taylor's?
i aint commin out. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | This is a tough one.
As much a solid-body guy I am, I think it would either be my "book" Viper or just my original Ovation Medallion. The Medallion lasted this long, and will probably go another 30 years with no problem, but the Viper...hmmmm Nope, it would have to be the Medallion. |
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Location: NJ | wood top adamas dreadnaught body. It sits in my guitar stand at the ready all the time. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That one is a great guitar Al, I remember it well. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I don't have no problem with this rhetorical question, I would just send my Viper to the factory for renovation and secretly sneak right in there at night and live off the scraps and crumbs of the employees lunches. Popping up here and there like the phantom of the opera with a beautiful new Ovation right off the assembly line. There would be strange tales of music being played at night with a decidedly bluegrass sound and footsteps and chains being dragged like the "Christmas Carol", "This is Marley, ghoooost of Ovations past, rattle, rattle, Marley, wishing he was on old Rocky Top, repent you sinners and never again build a super shallow bowl ooowah ooowah"
No problem for me, big problem for the factory and their ancient haunted building. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | My keeper is my 2003-vintage 1777 Legend. I keep a couple of guitars in our family room to play---it stays and the others rotate to the storage room and back.
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Location: Detroit, MI | Standing Ovation. You said you'd keep your Josh White, after giving all the reasons you should keep others. So, what is it about the JW tha makes it your keeper?
Roger: I work at the library in Canton, MI. Stop in any week-day and say hello. You should request that the library purchase a book Serge told me about the other day: The History of the Ovation Guitar.
BTW: Since I only own one Ovation, obviously, I would keep my new (82) CA. Great guitar. Now, if I had to choose between it and a a new cutaway CA, or a JW or Folklore Deluxe... I'd be in trouble. I think I would keep an Ovation CA over a Folklore model since I have a lot other steel strings.
What's the dif between a jr member (me) and a real member :-) ?
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Location: Waurika OK | Leo, it is the number of posts. Keep hittin the keyboard on the OFC board and you'll be a member in no time.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | If calamity struck and I absolutely couldn't keep one electric and one acoustic my choice would have to be my Bluebird 6 (UK2 version). Reason being, it is easier to simulate acoustic playing on an electric than the other way around.
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Custom Legend, but still looking for the Holy Grail with an Ovation logo on the headstock. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Folklore, I own a copy of the "History of Ovation" book already. :D I don't know if it would be a popular title otherwise for the library to have.
I'll try to stop in at the library sometime, too...but I'm a 40-hour-a-week daytime working stiff so it might be a while......I presume you work days, too???
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I'd have to stick with my MEWP. But I've got a growing fondness for my 1976 CA. The only thing it lacks is a cutaway. I suppose I spend about a fifth of my time above the 14th fret. So I wish I had a country artist with a cutaway; I think that would be my primary ovation. But since I don't, I'm going to chose my MEWP over the CA and the celebrity) The MEWP (which is really a CVT) has many wonderful qualities, but it's most unsung one, when played with a pick, are it's dynamics. Very loud, to very soft. I did a post awhile ago on it, which really detailed its attributes. |
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Location: RI. That small State out East | My story (I keep telling myself)is in 4 years we will downsize. Maybe a loft in the city.
I will need to only bring 3 with me.
Adamas 1 1688-8 (916-95) this is #1 in the boat.
The Adamas (New) Slot Head W681TA-5 is #2.
And the fun is still looking for #3.
Is it the 30th? Maybe?
Having the 3 boys it will be easy "visiting" the others. They can always come back for an extended sleep-over.
Good question.
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Damn, I'm glad this is a hypothetical!! My critters may not be exotic & rare, but they reside in egalitarian harmony. Ol' Faithful has seniority, and likely would be the last to go, given some cataclysm. A past survey at least posed the question, "You have two hands. As you run out of the engulfed inflagration, which two do you grab?" Yeah, I'm wafflin'.....sue me. The other one has to be Smiley- that pudgy l'il bastid just makes me laugh. |
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Location: Bham,AL | I've stuck with it this many years, I will stick with it as long as I'm alive, my one and only, 1117.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I've been negligent.
I haven't posted a "review" of my new Adamas MEII1598 12 string as I should have. Several factors have played into why I haven't...one being, she's had some "quality control" issues and went back to the factory only days after arriving. Thanks to Kim and Al, she's finally home (about a month) and in tip top shape...and she'd DEFINITELY be the one I'd keep.
To me, this guitar is un-freakin'-believable. Amazing action (even above the 12th!) and sound. She's a revamped version of the original ME1598, with some of the LX features, and sounds a bazillion times better than the older ME model (which I never liked). I've gotten a bunch of compliments on her sound, and I haven't even gigged her yet! So far, I've been running her (just cuz of laziness) through a flat channel in my PA for rehearsals, which doesn't have ANY eq options, and this guitar just ROCKS! So RICH, ALIVE and full. Usually I have to run some pedals and boost the bass. She's the best sounding "O" I've owned, and it was worth the 4 or 5 month wait. My GAS is curbed...for a while...and THAT is an unusual feeling!
Thanks, Al!
(He made it all happen)
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ONLY ONE OVATION GUITAR?