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Location: Columbus, Ohio | Last week I picked up a 1998 Adamas 1597 locally from the original owner. She said she hardly ever played it and it shows. Almost no fretwear whatsoever, the gold tuners are still shinny with no scratches or finish rubbing off. This thing looks like brand new!
I took it home and polished the frets and oiled the fretboard, put some new strings on and it plays great! I've have a lot of guitars in the past from many different makers and I always come back to Ovation/Adamas. I think I'm going to have order a custom Adamas within the next year. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Sounds like a great guitar when you have some time post some pics.
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Yeah we want pics! |
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Location: Columbus, Ohio | Here are a couple, I'll take some more today.
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Many people here will say "ugh a SMT top". I say let's not be too hasty.
My red 1597 is somewhere between the US and the UK. All it has to be is 'better' than my current fav squeeze (93C) to make it into the herd.
Lovely guitar methinks, juicy ebony neck, nice big frets, gold hardware, V neck (right?), a winning combo without even considering the top.
As you showed yours, I'll show you mine...
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Location: Vernon CT | 2 Gorgeous guitars. Congrats to both of you!!!
ENJOY!!!! |
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Location: Columbus, Ohio | I really like the brightness of this guitar. Still has the bottom end that I like but it shines in the mid/high area....love it. I play plugged in 90% of the time and I haven't found a guitar yet that sounds as good as Ovation/Adamas when plugged in.
Like I said, this guitar is in brand new condition and it's 10 years old...I didn't think $850.00 w/case was a bad deal. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Mine was $620 :) |
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Location: Columbus, Ohio | Have you received yours yet dweezil? look like Mike Tyson got ahold of your guitar :D
I like the way this guitar changes colors.
Here are a couple more pics, I'd like to get some outside but it's a little cloudy.    |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Love the way the colour changes too, looked black now looks grey - cool!
How about this (I didn't take the pic and it's not my actual guitar but it is a red 1537)...
Looks like a volcano guitar! I'm going have some fun with my camera when it arrives.
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Location: Columbus, Ohio | Dweezil
Yeah I like that color also! When should you be receiving your guitar? |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Hard to tell - it's probably left the US but has to clear customs etc, I would imagine another 10 - 14 days :-(
Just as soon as it arrives and I've removed all the shims, cleaned, waxed, oiled and restrung the camera will be let loose on it. Watch this space |
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New to me Adamas 1597
