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Location: UK | Can anyone give me any information on my adamas guitar,
It is a adamas millennium planets 6 string with the nine planets inlayed on the fret board and abalone edging around the top,
I can find no details in any catalogue,
The number is 15976.
Alan, |
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Location: NW NJ | Limited Edition Adamas in honor of the millennium that at least several of our members would give something pretty for ... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Nice guitar. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Welcome Alan!
Tony Calman can't be too far behind. He has some Millenium experience. |
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Location: Colorado | Yes, welcome Alan. I really wanted to get one of these when I bought my guitar three years ago. Very special instruments.
What color is yours? |
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Location: Michigan | Hi Alan,This is the story that I got on the
CB-MILL .You have a very nice guitar that is one of 75 made from 1999-2000.These were a special series made by Ovation for the new Millineium we were coming into.
Please give us some history or a story on how you aquired it .Brand new ? Garage sale?
I also own one and think its a neat looking & playing guitar.Good luck to you . GWB |
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Location: Midland, MI | Those things are very cool looking. Almost as cool as the Susiepep Planets Bass. ;) Didn't Al have a planets guitar for sale at one time? |
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Location: Tennessee | Lost Art/Vintage has a very cool one with a wood top ... think Custom Legend with the planet inlays.
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Location: Midland, MI | That's the one. If I weren't under strict orders to not buy[1] any new guitars this year... ;)
BTW, SB, are you stalking me? Every time I make another post in my quest to get the top ten threads on the 'latest posts' board, you come behind me and post a follow up. You're harshing me mellow, d00d.
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[1] Note: She didn't say anything about building them...so I'm building my first ever telecaster style guitar. If it works out as well as I hope... |
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Location: Tennessee | Sorry.
Oops, I did it again. :cool: |
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Location: ranson,wva | ive played the woodtop of al's. verry nice guitar |
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Location: Keller, TX | I have the CB-Mill. Most of the "planet" guitars are this model. As GWB and worshipleader have stated, they are a limited edition made for the celebration of the new millenium.
Specifications:
Top: Carbon Fiber Weave
Tuners: Gold with Pearloid buttons
Fretmarkers: Planet Inlays
Fretboard: Ebony
Binding: Mother of Pearl
Neck: 5-piece Maple/Mahogany
Preamp: Optima with onboard tuner
Output: Mono 1/4 inch plug, XLR
Here is an ebay auction where I sold one for Mike Stevens a while back. Ebay link |
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| Hey Tom - where ya been doc? |
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Location: Keller, TX | Opened a new clinic. Working double time. Haven't been playing much lately. Don't get much time to read the forums. |
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| What's your radius on house calls? Al's not well.
(Good luck with the clinic) |
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Location: Paris/France | Hi,
A very kind fan from Japan sent me 2 days ago a wonderful lot of O's documents.
Inside this lot, I've found this 20TH CENTURY MEMORIAL GUITARS BROCHURE.
Your model is not listed but there's amazing "Planets" models that I've never seen before like the "Universe Adamas".
I'm sure you will be glad to look at these guitars. ;)
J :) |
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Location: south east Michigan | Gee... Japan gets all the good stuff.
I was not so happy with my AD-II I would love have that wood top Millennium. |
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Location: south east Michigan | That should read.... "IF I was not so happy..." |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Gee... Japan gets all the good stuff.
A thing I am always wondering about whenever Jerome puts a new japanese brochure or catalogue on his page. They really got a great variety of models and some very interesting limited models.
Looks like the japanese market seems to be more important than Ovation's home market. :eek: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I don't know this for a fact, but I don't think this is Ovations doing, per se. The distributor in Japan (Nakeo Corp ?) takes a very strong and proactive approach to these high end models and requests/designs many special configurations of Ovation and Adamas for their home market. I do not think it is Ovation that comes up with these cool ideas and says "let's screw the euros and americans and only ship this stuff to Japan".
In principle, I think the euro distributors could very easily do the same. In fact, I do believe that Musik-Mayer (?) has done some models for the kraut & beer market.
If anything, it is the Americans who get screwed because we do not have a single visionary distributor who pushes such special guitars for us. It's every dealer for themselves. Sam Ash has done some stuff and of course there are the GC specials. But all the small dealers are left to themselves. Fortunately we do have one dealer (Lost Art Vintage) who IS a real visionary about these special guitars, and he gets GREAT input from his marketing advisor.
I'm sure the japanese customers are looking at things like the Koa Special, OFC Guitar, U681-12, etc. and thinking that Ovation is treating THEM as second class.
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Location: Munich, Germany | I did not want to start a discussion about first and second class customers again. ;) That is not what I was trying to say.
The thing I wondered about was that the japanese market/distributor seems to 'care' more for their customers - maybe because the customers ask for more. That is what surprises me - the fact, that Ovation seems to be more present in Japan, with customers asking for such a great variety of colours and limited models.
You are right, Dave, Musik Meyer, the german distributor, had some limited edtions with a very small production number (I own two - one of them limited to five pieces). And even if we do not get all the colours/options that you have in the USA, we get some special models as 'custom order serial models' like the 1651-7.
But maybe it is not surprising at all: BMW sells more 7'ers to the USA than in Europe - so you will get these cars cheaper, with a bigger list of extras. You'll get, what you ask for - and the more people asking, the more you will get. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I think that the Japanese market has this "Feng Shui" thing going.
Also, I think Japan has it's share of guitars that are made over there. So when they make something special, they make Something Special.
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Location: Michigan | " FENG SHUI " thing ????
That sounds like some type of FUNGUS or a disease of some type. Which one is it .
Can you catch this from someone? GWB |
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Location: SoCal | (Lost Art Vintage) who IS a real visionary about these special guitars, and he gets GREAT input from his marketing advisor.
you mean Michael? :p :p :p |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | NO. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I understand you can have these models sent back to the MotherShip to have Pluto removed... |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Jeff, Just keep Uranus away from the fretboard! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | you bet, Dizzy, my asteroids are totally inflamed... |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Maybe you should loosen your g string... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | or my M-Theory |
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Location: Chicago | If anyone wants to see more pictures of the Adamas Millennium, mine can be seen here. |
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| Wow! Beautiful! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | That planet, UB whatever, is now named Eris. Eris was a goddes who stirred up the trojan war. Nice name given the controversey about Eris being a planet. Its moon is called Dysnomia, Eris' daughter, is the goddess of lawlessness. Interestingly, I count 10 planets on the fretboard, but Eris was only discovered recently ... how did ovation know? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by Koenig Kurt:
The . . . japanese market/distributor seems to 'care' more for their customers.
Twenty years ago, nearly every graduate business school in America devoted part of their courses to studying Japanese models of quality and customer service. Over fifty years ago, it was America (Dr. W. Edwards Deming in particular) who was teaching the Japanese about quality, process improvement and customer service. The differences are much smaller in today's global economy than it was 20 or 30 years ago, but there are still many businesses that could improve their profitability and market share if they better understood the expectations of their customers. For most of us, however, guitars satisfy our wants, not our needs, and this can complicate the guitar maker's bottom line. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Rick - there's only 9 on the fretboard, unless it's a custom job. |
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Location: Keller, TX | Mine only has 9. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Some years ago many U.S. corporations attempted to model their quality/service standards after FLA Power & Light.
I think they were students of Dr. Deming also. |
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Location: Veedersburg, Indiana | Those are some of the prettiest guitars I think I've ever seen. I really like the fret markers on them. Just great!!! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | oops, miscounted from the pics. I await the next millenium edition for the update. Will check back in the year 3000. |
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adamas 'planets' edition smt