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New Hartford closing is the adamas line gone???

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alpep
Posted 2014-05-03 12:55 PM (#486165 - in reply to #485485)
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$1500 for a wood top adamas?

keep drinking your coors lite
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Mr. Ovation
Posted 2014-05-03 1:48 PM (#486168 - in reply to #486080)
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cwk2 - 2014-05-01 3:32 PM
The facility was Always rented. Nothin there to buy, just the name and Fuckner won't do that



This really raises the question of where all the specialized equipment and gear will end up. I can't imagine just filling a warehouse with the cost to disassemble and move is a smart choice. Unfortunately, and I hate to even think it, but scrap heap/recycle plant might be the most cost effective. That sucks to even think about.
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FlySig
Posted 2014-05-03 1:53 PM (#486169 - in reply to #485485)
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Building an O or an A is very different than a plain wooden box guitar. The loss of skills and knowledge will be quick, especially the carbon fiber processes. It will become exceedingly difficult to restart an Adamas line even if there is still an Asian wood top Ovation production line.
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Old Man Arthur
Posted 2014-05-03 2:50 PM (#486172 - in reply to #485485)
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So True.
Think of how many times that had to DO IT before they got it right.
A lot of things look good on paper, but the trick is doing it in real life.
Theory vs Application.
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Tony Calman
Posted 2014-05-03 4:58 PM (#486188 - in reply to #485485)
Subject: Re: New Hartford closing is the adamas line gone???



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Wonder how many of the newer wood top Adamas were actually made and sold. When they first came out, I was at an Ovation sponsored clinic in San Diego with Ovation having a number of guitars available to play. In the three plus hours I was there, so many were playing the wood top Adamas, I never got my chance. They didn't have a true Adamas there so there wasn't an opportunity for cross comparison. No idea if anyone in the crowd (yes, at least twenty-five) that were playing the woodtop Adamas actually ordered one. What was nice was there were some excellent guitarists playing them and as we often say, if you want to actually hear the guitar, stand back and have someone else play it.

I will say that, as I have 1187/1687's, CL's, other A braced O's, and the 1537, I wasn't interested. But that's just me as I like uniqueness, carving and/or bling (abalone).
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d'ovation
Posted 2014-05-03 5:53 PM (#486197 - in reply to #485485)
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This all is just so depressing.
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stellarjim
Posted 2014-05-03 8:16 PM (#486200 - in reply to #485485)
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I own 2 Adamii guitars and love them both. I'd love to see a company like Carvin buy the Adamas line. They are quite good at building great, highly customized guitars. And while they are mostly an electric guitar company, they also build thin line chambered acoustic-electrics domestically as well.
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danomyte
Posted 2014-05-04 5:23 AM (#486211 - in reply to #486165)
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I prefer Bass and there are some great deals out there if you look. Thats how much I picked mine up for.
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stonebobbo
Posted 2014-05-04 10:47 AM (#486213 - in reply to #485825)
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damon67 - Bobbo, is Starland still there?

 

They sure are.  Making a better world through music ... one kid at a time.  

 

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ProfessorBB
Posted 2014-05-04 12:03 PM (#486215 - in reply to #485485)
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I feel so fortunate that I was able to obtain a number of Adamas customs through Al. In addition to all the tooling, I wonder what will become of the big room full of stock, all that great wood? I can think of several guitars I had designed in my mind that now will never be built.
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Patch
Posted 2014-05-04 8:33 PM (#486237 - in reply to #486215)
Subject: Re: New Hartford closing is the adamas line gone???



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boltonb - 2014-05-04 1:03 PM 

I can think of several guitars I had designed in my mind that now will never be built.

I am incredibly grateful for the several projects I managed to complete. And I remember stepping up the pace when Fender first bought out the company.

But I didn't quite finish what I planned. I had three or four more ideas....and I guess that's what they'll remain.

 

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