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Location: Kentucky | Do we know how many 1537's were made? |
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Location: south east Michigan | HWGA!!! (Here We Go Again!!)
I think the last time we played this game it came to about 500 pcs, right? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | All of them.
Some of them got made twice, like Randy's and Weaser's. |
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Location: Tennessee | Brad, you might be right - but I thought the number came out to around 900. No matter how you look at it, it works out to be somewhere around half the number of the annual Collectors' editions that were put out through the 80's and 90's. Which got me to thinking and wondering why we seem to see so many 1537s on the market compared to most Collectors' guitars. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I think you're right bobbo.
I think I made a wild guess of 500 at the time. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | 900-1000 is the number I remember. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Sounds about right.
I think you see them more because they are more desirable |
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Location: SoCal | Per Nick Macklin, the guy who built them in Mooseup, there were 1082 built. The first 18 built in the last quarter of '82. Production started in January '83 and went into 1984 when production was moved to New Hartford and the Elite was born.
At least I think that's what my notes say. If you look in the archives, going back 2-3 years, you'll find the original discussion on these guitars and what I posted right after I talked with Nick.... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | There's the answer from the guy who built them. |
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Location: Maine | Folks.. Aftre digging through some archives(boxes really)..I know I have a few copies of early Ovation meeting notes from the birth of this model (one of my favorites by the way), when it was being called the Wood Top Super Legend or something like that.. I'll need to relocate them , but they are really a look back into the past. really nNeat stuff .. Unless you object MB.. I could probably scan them to share with the group. TJR |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Tal,
Good to see ya posting! |
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Location: Maine | Hey Mike.. I added this too..
http://ovationfanclub.ning.com/profile/TRickard
I've gotta get pics of the battle axe guitar I showed you uploaded as well.
,,,Talbot |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | scan it and share it |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I like what you have over there now. |
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Location: Maine | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
scan it and share it Since I believe some may be in your hand writing... I just Thought I should ask...
..It might take a few days (inlaws are visiting)
, but I'll get'er done...
TJR |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | 'preciate it. We shouldn't hide history, let it loose.
We never would have so much known about the slot heads if we were private about it. I think the history of them is pretty clear thanks to people digging through the details. |
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Location: Orange County, California | How many were born without belly-buttons (electronics)??? |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by mtnbikerfred:
How many were born without belly-buttons (electronics)??? Be interesting to find out. Yours is the only one I've ever seen or heard of..... |
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Location: Maine | Here's some of the early documents , should be pretty interesting reading..enjoy... TJR
SuperLegendProject
More here:
1537 Related Album
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by TJR:
Here's some of the early documents , should be pretty interesting reading. You've a real gift for understatement. |
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Location: SoCal | This is so damned cool!
Thanks Tal.... |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Yes, fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting these. |
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Location: Jet City | Wow, that's great stuff, thanks for sharing!
All I can contribute is a picture...
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Damon67:
Wow, that's great stuff, thanks for sharing!
All I can contribute is a picture...
Until then... I will just have to suffer! :D
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Thanks Tal.
Really spells it all out what we did and when
I used to write a lot neated back then! |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Thanks Tal.
Really spells it all out what we did and when
I used to write a lot neated back then! Neated? Still can't type worth a damn. But you play pretty damned good blues guitar.
Seriously Beal, you and the rest of the team did wonderfulness with the guitars developed and built back then. If I've never said it before, thanks. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I maent neaterer |
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Location: SoCal | I new thta.... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Figgered yadid |
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Location: Maine | Damon67 .. Very Nice Picture!.. catalog worthy
OMA.. Your elite is also very nice, and the Sunburst looks the originals...
MB and MP , of course you know what DNA stands
for ....
... National Dyslexic Association
As far as some other documents.. I will need a scanner with a document feeder. so stay tuned.. I've got some other bits to share ... There are some about other models as well.
Off topic Trivia.. Did you know back it the earliest days , there was talk about wood look "contact paper" as a possibility for the round back?
All I could imagine is something like this..
(random google image seach)
Now back to the 1537 Program..
Talbot |
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Location: NJ | I seem t'remember Keller having an O with a wood-grain contact paper on the bowl . . . |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Hey...how about that wet immersion process they use to put camo on gun stocks and bows. I have a business relationship with a national bow manufacturer and they use the process on composites and aluminum.
Maybe I will take my 1537 in and have them "dip it" in some RealTree camo for a "wood grain" look (with leaves and twigs for effect).
Seriously, with all the flames, and unusual treatments guitars are getting, it might be kind of fun to take a Korean built O and have that done. Or maybe it already has been. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Looks like Cliff's new car. |
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| This is some seriously cool information! |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Looks like Cliff's new car. The "O-Mobile"! |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | It was interesting to see that there were A/E models of the Academy line also. KE16 & KE17.
All I've heard of were the KA models. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I'm still crying about not getting that 1547 before Beal snagged it. ): |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by bvince:
I'm still crying about not getting that 1547 before Beal snagged it. ): You should cry about it. I played that guitar for about 5 days on Amelia Island. Great guitar. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | "You should cry about it. I played that guitar for about 5 days on Amelia Island. Great guitar."
It's a good thing you're a PI and not a grief counselor, Paul. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Well Mauvais, if you ever feel like lightening the load, shoot me an email (: |
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