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Location: AZ from TEXAS | This is a cool site with lot's of helpful info. Can anyone help me identify my guitar and maybe the date it was made? There are no serial or model numbers. It has to be at least eight years old. It looks like the model CC01-M's-it is full bodied, acoustic only, and ruby red. Some differences with the one I have and the one on the Ovation website is that: I have diamond shaped in-lays in the fretboard instead of dots, and instead of having two dots next to eachother on the bridge-they are spread out to the ends, and I have a triangular piece of plastic on the front of the string tree that covers the truss rod. Any info would be appreciated, thanks. |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | I think I've identified the guitar... IT'S MINE! GIVE IT BACK!
Just looking at the letters, I might guess a Celebrity Matrix?
Seriously though, I don't know anything, so I'll go now.
Bye bye!
Norse(hey, at least I'm an honest idiot!)man1 |
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Location: AZ from TEXAS | My guitar looks much like this one
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2512467801&category=2385
except that mine is not electric, and the color is different. |
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Location: AZ from TEXAS | Never mind, I found it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2512551700&category=33029
And I completely agree with the seller's opinion that this is a closet classic. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | absnath
Good looking guitar, Ovation has produced some very nice guitars, if we lined them all up (which we have in the gallery) there certainly isn't a boring all look the same except for the trim, syndrone like with other brands. But the best part is playing them, so make sure you do your part on that.
Bailey |
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Location: AZ from TEXAS | Thanks Baily. This has been a great first guitar for me, for about eight years now. I knew that it had probably been through some adventures, but I didn't know it was as old as it is. It truely found it's way to me serendipitously.
I was visiting family and friends in Dallas and was to fly back to Austin right after the holidays. It was on a Sunday so, many business people needed to get on a plane back to where ever. The airline did one of those- "if you want to give up your ticket, well set you up in a hotel and give you a round-trip ticket anywhere in the continental US." I guess they overbooked. I was happy to stay because my highschool girlfriend was seeing me off, and we were entertaining the notion of getting back together.
Anyway, I had a round trip ticket that I didn't use for a while and x-mas came around. I was hangning around with a friend of mine who someone had pawned this guitar to almost two years prior and apparently fell of the face of the earth. It had sat in a closet for that long-me knowing it was in there but never daring to even look at it. I could feel it's power emanating, even occassionally screaming. But, I didn't want to dare covet such beauty. Something came up with my friend and he had to be in LA fast. We were starving students at the time, as I'm sure, was the person who pawned it in the first place. To make a long story short (yeah right), he asked what I would take in return for the plane ticket. I heard a scream and smiled, and that's that. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | absnath
Great story, what makes our instruments our own and part of our family is those types of experiences. After you have an instrument it doesn't matter what it started out as, it becomes like our children or our significant others after a few years. Of course, part of that is the time we spend playing it when all our other relationships are in limbo and it's the only friend left. If I lost my home I would probably haul my favorite instruments around in a shopping cart and starve gaurding them from the elements.
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