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Location: Burbank | Look what the mailman brought me! Always wanted one. Probably the best supper shallow I've played. Nice and punchy.
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I cannot get this to work.
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Okay, that worked. 
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Thank You Arthur!!! 
Mario, CONGRATULATIONS!!! That is Gorgeous!!! Is it Walnut??
Absolutely Beautiful Guitar!!!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | yeah, I really like those. I put an OP24 in mine way back then |
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Location: Burbank | Thanks Arthur. Yeah its practically brand new. I haven't plugged her in yet but, but sounds great all by herself. |
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Location: Burbank | Nancy I believe its nutmeg stained spruce. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Thank You Mario!
It is absolutely Beautiful!!! I am sure it will sound just as Beautiful as it looks! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's too dark for nutmeg, so I looked up the ad with Beal's smiling face in it. He must have been in a dark mood that year, because "black is the theme" and the top was ebony stained spruce. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Beautiful. |
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Location: When?? | Such a pretty wood.. and I can hear it playing right through my screen. Congrats! |
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Location: Pittsburgh | Gorgeous! |
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Location: New Hartford CT | Damon has/had one of these, I recollect a red blanket layout. Nice guitar...probably the most striking super shallow they've made. |
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Location: Jet City | had... it lives down under now.
The only reason I let it go was that I found a matching white 1868 that looked so nice with the white 1858.
I didn't have room for 2 SSB Elites... Miss it though.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Gotta love those SSBs! She's a beaut. |
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Location: SoCal | I played Beal's maybe 10 years ago and remember thinking that it was the best sounding ssb I had ever played........ |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've never played Beal's nor anyone else's 84 Collector and I'm not a big fan of the SSBs. I like the extra bass of the deep bowls. The 2 SSBs I had, an 83 Collector and a Custom Balladeer, were pretty heavily played and sounded very good, but still a little thin on the bass. I tend to prefer the single soundhole sound over the multi-hole sound.
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Location: Colorado | They are easier to lose your pick in Mark...gotta work to lose the pick in the Epis |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | I am not often smitten by the appearance of a guitar but that one looks fine indeed!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Mine is a natural, the prototype. Marketing chose the black stain on straight grain, not bear claw, so that's what was made. Since the other one was never going to be used I thought it only right to give it a home. I wanted the transparent black finish for the model. Grestch had just come out with the Super Chet and they came in trans orange and black. |
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Location: Burbank | Hey Beal why do you suppose they sound better that other SSB's? Are they braced differently than other SSB elites? |
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Location: near Cologne/Germany | BTW, if anyone is interested, there is one 1984C on german eBay actually
http://www.ebay.de/itm/OVATION-Collectors-Series-1984-New-Hartford-...
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I don't know why,maybe mine does cause it was an early photo and had "extra care" when being built. Or maybe it's just cause it was my main guitar for many many years and got played a lot. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Beal - 2016-05-19 12:31 PM
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Since the other one was never going to be used I thought it only right to give it a home.
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That's Beal! A Kindhearted Fellow, always bringing home Strays and Rescues! LOL!! 
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Location: SoCal | The 84C is the only SSB that I have kept. #1480 back in March, 2006. |
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Location: Yokohama, Japan | Mark in Boise - 2016-05-17 2:43 AM
It's too dark for nutmeg, so I looked up the ad with Beal's smiling face in it. He must have been in a dark mood that year, because "black is the theme" and the top was ebony stained spruce.
Ebonized Spruce! Of course! The '84 Collector's! She's absolutely stunning! Congratulations Mario!
How did they maintain the beautiful brown color? I'm ebonizing my '90 1868, and filled the wood with concentrated espresso to add tannins to the spruce, then proceeded with the iron acetate application. While I love the look achieved, she turned quite black. Maintaining the brown in the ebonizing process must have required a very special technique...or maybe tea works better to maintain the brown? Hmmm....questions, questions... |
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Location: Burbank | Thanks everybody. I must say when I pick it up I do find myself staring at the top first. It is an eye catcher. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | It really is, I was just perusing Reverb and one jumped right out at me, and at a good price!!!
https://reverb.com/item/2275809-ovation-1984-collector-series-1984-e...
No... I am not going after it, so feel free guys! |
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Location: Yokohama, Japan | Nancy - 2016-05-24 8:29 AM It really is, I was just perusing Reverb and one jumped right out at me, and at a good price!!! https://reverb.com/item/2275809-ovation-1984-collector-series-1984-ebony No... I am not going after it, so feel free guys! Hey...this new song just suddenly popped into my head... "I feel Free, so FREE, FREE to be me...but the guitar is NOT FREE...and me have no money." Inspired by the GAS Temptress...sigh!  |
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Location: Yokohama, Japan | Nancy - 2016-05-24 8:29 AM It really is, I was just perusing Reverb and one jumped right out at me, and at a good price!!! https://reverb.com/item/2275809-ovation-1984-collector-series-1984-ebony No... I am not going after it, so feel free guys!
Of course, wouldn't you know that over the last 5 days this '84 Collector showed up on Yahoo auctions here in Japan! In need of a neck reset, and some minor cosmetic issues! A steal at 500 bucks (at least for Japan!), but no bids as yet. Bidding ends in 1 hour!
http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n173751500
These moments...oh, how they try men's souls! Time to shut down the PC lest my fingers bid with a mind all their own!
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