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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | The LX guitars come with with Ovation calls the original patented Ovation pickup. Is this pickup identical to the pickup the first Ovation acoustic electric guitars came with? And is it made by Ovation at the New Hartford plant, or made elsewhere? |
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Location: NJ | as I understand it, the crystals were from CT and the pickup was made in mexico. I am not sure where the current pickup is made. |
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Location: Scotland | It looks identical to the Shadow version, so maybe it's made by them. |
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Location: Germany | Picture shows the pickup bottom side of my approximately 15 years old Custom Legend. Obviously the pickup was made in Mexico. Does anybody know what the digits may mean?
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Location: SoCal | Built 4/1/87?
Serial or model number on the right? |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | It probably means the 41st week of 1987. This is a fairly standard date code for electronics.
On the back of potentiometers you will see numbers like 1372566. The first three digits are the manufacturers code, the second two are the week, and the last two are the last digits of the year. In this case 137=CTS, 25th week of 1966.
This is a real handy way to get a "no-older-than" date, particularly for an electric guitar, as they all have pots. Depending on how much parts stock a manufacturer inventoried, you can narrow down a guitars date quite accurately this way. Obviously a guitar manufacture date can be no older than a pot, assuming the part is original, which is fairly easy to tell.
On the pickup pictured above, the second number is, like Moody says, likely the part #.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I'd guess the big number is the part number. They were always made in Mexico, just across the border in one of those Tequilaborro programs. The first ones were made in NH but that stopped by 1980ish. |
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Shadow was used as a vendor for a short period of time, a while back, but not currently... I have all of shadows pick ups and saddles for comparison and all of Ovations saddles, they are similar but not the same...
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Original Ovation pickup