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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | There's always an opportunity for a feisty bunch of officianados to band together, buy the brand, and reinstate it to a beloved status!!!! (Didn't someone do that with Harley?) |
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Location: Flahdaw | Standingovation - 2015-01-07 2:19 PM
Face it guys, the Ovation brand is dead. They just can't figure out where to put the corpse.
That's it exactly. It's just not "official", and Fender didn't want to be the one to MAKE it official.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Fender was making "re-branded" Celebrity guitars, anyway.
The sad part was the loss of the MotherShip... But it had already gone away.
Fender added Ovation to the drum deal to get out from under the Warranty obligations.
BTW-- Fender still sux.  
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Location: California | Ok new name, Ovatti-Bugatti. Wish they continue with the repair shop and or making guitars in CA.
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Location: Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire | Fender used to have a soul! His name was Leo!! |
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| I have my ADii there now for repair. Haven't been able to reach John Budny since the 6th (which was the day of the announcement). Not good. He always gets right back to me. He isn't answering emails and he's not answering calls....
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| fillhixx - 2015-01-07 3:47 PM
There's always an opportunity for a feisty bunch of officianados to band together, buy the brand, and reinstate it to a beloved status!!!! (Didn't someone do that with Harley?)
Yes! I own a few Harley's. The employees bought the company back from AMF in the 80's. It turned out to be a brilliant move!
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Location: Texas | <<<I own a few Harley's.>>> I would be saddling one up and heading to New Hartford. or maybe it's Oxnard CA... If you flip a coin, heads always works for me.
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| This just in from John Budny:
Hi Jeff,
Sorry it has taken a bit to get back but it has been an exciting couple of days. We are here for a while, hopefully a long while and not sure what will happen but will get you information on your guitar by tomorrow. We are operating as usual for the time being.
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | The good news is that there are still plenty of great Ovations out there for us Ovation lovers to acquire if we so desire. Enough to last till we are dead and gone. And as our foreign friends so readily point out we live in Ovation heaven -- the land of plenty. And plenty of vintage stuff out there still to be had for those so inclined! Alas and alack our offspring and their descendents may not be so fortunate!! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | question
Hi I have 26 Ovation guitars purchased new and wondering status repair shop in New Hartford and how warrenty will be handled
Thank You
Paul Edward Zukowski
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We are still in the process of acquiring all information from Ovation. Your best bet for a quick answer is to call Ovation directly at 800-552-4681.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Skylar Maloney
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Drum Workshop Inc.
skylarm@dwdrums.com
Phone 805-822-5363
Fax 805-485-1029
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | A fine gentleman with integrity is that aforementioned John Budny!! |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | nerdydave - 2015-01-15 4:53 PM
A fine gentleman with integrity is that aforementioned John Budny!!
Indeed!!! I like John very much with limited communications!!! He is a Good Man!!! He has a great sense of humor too!!! 
Would it help to write the new Company, and express our desires to see John and the Boys stay, and the Ovation brand continue???? Would it help them make a decision if they knew that there was solid interest from the Buyers out there???? |
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Location: N.J. | Well DW isnt exactly a stranger to guitars in a way. Years ago when Kramer was trying to make a comeback before Gibby bought 'em, they used to outsource all their guitars to DW for paint work. I had one of my custom guitars painted by them in a Polyester finish and they did a real nice job. Perhaps they can sell off to a buyer and work a deal to still do the paint work. Wishful thinking but heres hoping. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | What is really interesting to me is that Ovation was purchased. I know this may sound like an odd observation, but hear me out. Fender didn't purchase Ovation, they purchased KMC which is a distribution company that Ovation was a part of and roll it into Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, again a distributor. Once acquired, they could kinda do whatever they wanted with the Ovation business unit. Now they sell FMIC and Ovation was obviously NOT part of that sale. So what was DW's motivation to pick up Ovation. In the previous Fender purchase, Fender "ended up" with Ovation as part of purchasing a distribution company. We hoped they planned on doing something with Ovation, and they did a little. DW just bought Ovation. No equipment that I know of, but that's possible I guess, no people, that I know of... just a name ?? You don't just "buy a guitar brand" or anything company and do nothing with it. I mean I guess you could, but I think that would be pretty hard to get past your Board of Directors of whomever is in charge and writing checks.
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Location: Upper Left USA | I'm optimistic.
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Location: Flahdaw | I agree. No reason to buy Ovation by itself without a plan on doing something positive with it. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I hope your right Miles...
But I think it's time for a sports metaphor.
A while back there was a guy from the Marlins that the Tigers wanted very, very much. But to get him we had to take a guy that we, or any other team would want no part of. We got the guy we wanted. The guy we didn't want was an anchor for a couple years and cost us not just a few games. But he is long gone and the guy we wanted has been a superstar.
DW may have the Ovation name but they don't have the people or any of the specialized tooling. I bet they don't even have and an instruction book on how to put one together. |
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Location: SoCal | Wouldn't they have all the overseas manufacturing facilities? |
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Location: Texas | I am with the kid. Ovation was rolled in with the percussion bundle. Just the name. No guitars. No machinery. No factory. What can DW do with Ovation, that Fender couldnt...errr...and Fender had a factory, machinery, and craftsmen? I don't want to be debbie downer...but realistically...bringing Ovation back to life doesn't seen very feasible for someone that just owns the name. As sad as it may seem...I bet John B is the one that turns out the last O light. Unless, FMIC had to retain the warranty work on previous Ovations sold. I am curious as to how that plays out. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Yes, my own bubble was burst when I talked to Al and he reminded me that DW picked up the Percussion from Kaman. So Ovation was likely tossed in as a deal maker to make the sale to Jam easier.  |
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Location: Canada | It's sad that after almost a year the factory tour is still prominent on the O website and it is obvious that this has not been tended to in just as long, with exception of the phone number and warranty information update. Would the deal with fender not also include the arrangements they had with the Asian suppliers and the merchandising/distribution stuff, as well as potential patents and plans? |
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Ovation purchase by DW?
