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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Ovation Jumbo Acoustic
Can anyone tell me anything about this beast? What model is it? When were they made? Where were they made? What do they sound like?
Edit;Oh wow, I just noticed it's in my old home town. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | There was another thread about this one. I think Bill said it was indeed a "jumbo". I've never heard of one either. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | $200Aus is about $180Cdn.
I'm more the bottom feeder type and know little about Ovations...when you get right down to it...
but I'd consider it a heck of a bargain up to....
$250Cdn...$275Aus.
Can anyone in 'your old home town' look at the guitar for you?
(I don't get the discription about not being very loud. A deep bowl guitar, set up properly, should just boom!....?cracked or unglued ribs?)
I bought my Custom Balladeer new in ...um 1975? (good decade!) and it's still my favourite, play-it-first guitar. (Of course, I only have 5 so it's not that big a choice....) |
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Location: big island | muzza,
check out my post in the for sale section about the jumbo in oz. i wuz thinking about you guys down there. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Thats where I saw it! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | There is no such thing as a jumbo. Somebody was wanting one and I was winding him up. There was only one body shape until the parlor. |
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Location: big island | hey bill,
got an email from steve sutton today. thanks for the connect. i've invited him to our june jam in asheville. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by cwk2:
There is no such thing as a jumbo. Somebody was wanting one and I was winding him up. There was only one body shape until the parlor. ...so what is it then? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | An Ovation guitar of uncertain lineage..... |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by fillhixx:
An Ovation guitar of uncertain lineage..... Oh, that helps. :)
This is probably NOT the best weekend to get anything resembling a serious or accurate response from Connecticut, eh? ;) |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Oops, wrong button.
Can't delete. :mad: |
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Location: big island | muzza,
as brainslag says in his post on the sell/trade forum, it is probably an 1111-4 balladeer. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I used to own a 1111. It wasn't a jumbo, but a normally proportioned O.
The photo must be an optical illusion, coz the neck seems really short in relation to the body.
I'll get my mate in Wollongong to go check it out and get back to you.
I hardly ever go to the sell/trade forum, for obvious reasons. |
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Location: big island | bill says there are no "jumbo" ovations. he is probably the voice of authority on this. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | it's just a regular balladeer. plain vanilla. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Muzza..I didn't know you were from Wollongong. I'm originally from Newcastle.Did you ever work at BHP down there. I spent ten years in the blast furnace at Newcastle.
BTW..are you thinking about bidding on this guitar? |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I did my electrical apprenticeship at what used to be AIS in Port Kembla, affectionately known as 'the steel works'. I wasn't in one area for more than a year, except the coke ovens - I was in that hell hole for 2 years.
Our similarities are spooky, Oz.
And no, I had no intention of bidding. If it was something special, like a real JUMBO (if they existed) I may have been interested. I still haven't told SWMBO about my last Ovation purchase. I'm well known on this forum for my fear of my 'other half'.
And if we ever meet, which is highly likely, YOU DON'T TELL HER NOTHIN'! |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Your secret is safe with me Muzza |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I actually wondered why they never attemped a super jumbo with top dementions similar to Gibsons SJ-200.
A lot of those Gibsons are disappointing in thier
in sound. I was shocked how many of those turn up used. I would think deep countour with a massive top would really really blow other Jumbos out of the water. |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by PEZ:
I actually wondered why they never attemped a super jumbo with top dementions similar to Gibsons SJ-200.
The engineering and development costs to come up with the molds for the bowl would be huge. I think I heard during a factory tour a couple of years back that the costs for new molds are into six figures. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Wow I didn't think it would cost that much!
Once developed it might pay off in the long run. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | No. They have to build the bowl for my Upright Double 'O' Bass first!
Imagine the rumble! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | rotflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | What?!?!?! I serious!
The world needs more upright bass and an Ovation
would likely be less expensive than MOST current options, be louder and tougher, and be lighter.
Imagine, a world full of slap bass in the dance hall! Bowed bass on the ballads....I think I'm gonna weep, just a little. It's too beautiful. |
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Location: Up North | I saw a show on TV a while back about a company building cello's completely out of carbon fibre, (I think it was Louis & Clarke). Maybe you could track them down to build your custom stand-up bass? |
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Location: Tampa, FL | The company is Luis and Clark.
I told my nephew about this company a while back. He's waiting for the Bass version. I believe I heard about them on this board.
Here's the link |
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Location: Tampa, FL | If you read their (luis and Clark's) copy, you find their reasoning follows the lines of: Form following function, consistency of materials/product, use of contemporary materials, results oriented design without overarching concern for tradition (other than the music).
Sound familiar.
Oddly, there is not a lot of pushback from peers. I believe there are a couple of these instruments in the National Symphony (nephew's gig). There are certainly A number of them around in various big time orchestras around the US. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Here is another builder that uses composite materials:
Birk Custom Guitars |
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I've never seen one of these before.