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Location: Phoenix AZ | Lots of posts asking what is your favorite Ovation, blah, blah, blah ... How about this, what is you favorite NON-Ovation guitar and why? I'm not trying to rock the boat here, just curious that we obviously share a passion for Ovations, but what about other guitars? I suspect there are some common opinions there as well. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Solidbody - The Hamer Newburg 12 string I fondled last weekend! Blonde/birdseye Maple and Smooove!
Acoustic - a Cedar topped (high end) Breedlove. Tender and delicate. |
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Location: Burbank | I have a '79 Ibanez Iceman that plays really nice and easy, has a really hot sound. I always played it in favor of my Les Paul, and since have sold the Les Paul and still have the Iceman! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...ok, it's not a guitar, but my favorite NON-Ovation is my Washburn 5-string Banjo.... :cool:
...I realize I'm setting myself up for rabid censure...but you just can't fight genetics! And to loosely paraphrase General Patton: "Banjo, God help me, I love it so!" :eek: |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Right now my favorite non-Ovation is a Hamer Monaco Elite Indigo finish that is hanging on the wall at Earhart's Electronics and when the next GAS kicks in I hope to have it in my hands!
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It has great action and superb crafsmanship and the finish is beautiful. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | My Martin 00028EC, purchased last month. Beautiful "vintage" appointments, comfortable 000-size body, spruce, rosewood, ebony, and a "mature" tone fresh off the assembly line: warm bass, clear, bell-like treble, and I can't believe how the notes sustain, even way up there on the fretboard. Loving a guitar this much is downright unwholesome. Of course, when my Adamas arrives I may end up "cheating" on my Martin! |
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Location: Germany | My favourite non-Ovation is a Washburn 12-string (D-62 SW-12)"Prairie Song", purchased 1982. Warm sound and strong bass! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | My favorite non-O that I own is my Parker Fly Deluxe. It's quirky looking, I know...but what a great neck and tremensous variation of sounds....very versitile guitar. Has 2 Humbuckers and Piezo in stereo (any combination) and 3 settings for trem..locked, Str@t-like (one direction), and floating (ala Floyd Rose)..all at the flick of a switch. It has to be the lightest guitar ever, which is great for my bad back.
My favorite non-O that I don't own (yet) would be some sort of custom Hamer electric, I'm sure. Those guitars are just incredibly gorgeous and impeccably made.
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Location: Tennessee | Are we talking what we have or just lust after?
What I have:
I don't consider my Hamer a non-O (trying to be sensitive and politically correct in this age of blended families) so it doesn't count. Same goes for Adamas.
Electric -- Charvel Surfcaster. Semi-hollow mahogany/maple body, very thin fast neck, twin Kent Armstrong alnico lipstick pickups, push/pull phase shift, and an incredible vibe. Coolest surf look on the planet.
Acoustic -- My son's J200. Big boomer. Small neck for such a big body.
What I don't have:
Electric -- BLACKIE, or a PRS Santana.
Acoustic -- Rickenbacker Shiloh or Comstock. |
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Location: Omaha | Oh...why not...
...my Larrivee OM-05; been playing it for 12 years and it sounds (and plays) great for fingerstyle. Who knew a mahogany OM could sound so big, rich and balanced?!
electric...my newest built Warmoth 'strat': swamp ash, Mary Kay white body, Bill Lawrence pickups (which sound better, to my ear, than a set of Bardens in my Warmoth Tele thinline), maple neck/pau ferro board. Very versatile tones on every pickup; I reach for this one first for worship most Sundays... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well, where do I start?
For acoustcis, Collings. Great workmanship, great sound, they feel good and play smoove as buddah. I guess my #1 is a OM-42 adarondack s/b brazilian. #2 is a curley maple engleman OM (vintage neck natural, Mev'nn). #3 is a OO-42 ad/bz, #4 is a CJ-41 Ad/Bz s/b and #5 is a CW-28 ad/bz s/b.
I've had Larrives and Santa Cruz, they're nice but I think the Collings are a step better. (Just my opinion, and we all know what those are like). Those are both better than Martins which while good seem a little machine made to the feel.
Then there are the Nationals, Tricones, style O's and duolians all for different sounds
Every day I'll play the OM-42 and style 4 tricone and quite often Mev'nn. |
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Location: NJ | s'Bill;
Where does the "Fins" Tricone enter into it?
When you've eaten your Wheaties that morning and can heft it?? ;) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cliff, it's on the wall in the middle of the others and looks good. It's in open C tuning now (not D down lower either). It is the heaviest National ever built! To be honest, I prefer the lighter ones. To that point the early original ones are made from nickle silver and are about a pound lighter than the brass bodies which is what the new ones are.
I really do like the sound of the tricones and they are quite different amoungst themselves too. The real early ones (1927)have a wooden bottom to the well (where the cones rest) and sound different from the later ones (about s/n 170 on). They are quieter and less harsh. Then there is the style 97 model (the painted surfer girl) which has a brass body and sounds different again, a smoother tone but less overtones.
Anyhow, enuf on Nationals. I forgot to mention that for guitars without frets I play a Weissenborn. A wonderful tone!
As for electrics there's Hamers, a Newport Pro with 1 7/8 neck and a couple others. For Fender types I've made a couple of tele's, Warmoth 1 3/4 necks and bodies and Duncan power. |
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| I'm going to stay with a theme I think this time around. I am all Ovations for the acoustics, and Rickenbacker for the electrics. I just love the feel and the sounds of these guitar's when I play any of them. I do miss my old Fender Strat though! it had the fine tuners on the tailpiece and I had the frets filed down real low and that thing was so fast. I will most likely replace it with a Rickenbacker 480. |
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Location: Scotland | Bill, a real Weissenborn, or one of the many replicas? |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | For electrics, I like Gibson Les Pauls....if I could justify it, I would go for a new 'burst Standard Plus with the '50s neck, but I have an Epiphone version of the same thing already. For some reason, Les Pauls just feel "right" to me. Although I do hear the siren call of a maple-neck Strat from time-to-time.
For acoustics, I like Larrivees. Every one I've ever played has been good. If I didn't have Ovations, I'd have a couple of Ds and a couple of OMs, in addition to the parlor guitar I have already.
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Location: Indiana | My favorite guitar is, and probably always will, be my first good guitar, my '60 strat.Other than the frets it is still all original.
The only non-O acoustic I own is a '71 Martin 5-18. Kind cute but not much on sound. The best I've played (that I don't own) was a Gibson J-200 that was taken in on a trade in a music store I worked in back in the 70's. Wow!
As far as basses go, a friend once asked me which was my favorite and was surprised by my answer. I own 5 Steinbergers, a Modulus Graphite,Alembic, 6 Fenders, 2 Rickenbackers etc etc, but my favorite bass is a maple neck G&L SB-2 (approx '90). Just a "plane jane " kinda bass that for me is just perfect. Plays great, sounds great, simple controls.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I have a few favorite instruments, guitar and mandolin, that I have had for many years. I am not going to list them here, but this thread has reminded me again that some instruments are like wives and siblings. You abuse and mistreat them, leave them lying around where they could be stolen or damaged, maybe play them too hard and don't polish or praise them enough. Then if they should be destroyed or stolen (die or divorce with wives and siblings), you suddenly have a monstrous hole in your life that was being filled by that old familiar friend and it's too late to do anything except swear it won't happen again.
But it always does.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Paul T.
A real one, actually two, a style 1 and a style 4 that is older than the 1. It has the paper lable putting it in the 16-22 range. The style 1 is around 1922 or 23, it has the branded stamp and it is all intact so the brand was pretty new when it was used.
Great guitars and it a totally different space than wooden boxes, fibreglass bowls, or metal bodies. |
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Location: Scotland | I have a replica made by a Brit luthier, all Mahogany rather than Koa. It's a nice instrument, but I've never played an original to compare. Someday maybe, but they're as rare as rocking-horse crap over here. Have you ever owned or played a round-neck Weissenborn or Kona? |
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Location: NJ | ". . as rare as rocking-horse crap . . "
LMFAO!!!! :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Paul, I missed the bid on a Weissenborn style C earlier. My suspicion is that they aren't as good as their counterparts of the day, Martin, Gibson and the rest. But to answer the question, I've never played one
Rocking Horse Crap? OK when you see RHC used in replies in the future you'll know what it stands for! |
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Location: Scotland | It would be interestimg to compare a round neck with the ususal style. I guess the hollow neck has a HUGE effect on the sound |
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Your Favorite Non-Ovation and Why ???
