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Location: Brighty in Blighty | I'll start the ball rolling...
in fact I have 2, the 84 and 93 Collectors.
Then when I want to really treat myself out comes the 03 Collector or 1537. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Dweezil,
Your Choices for "Beater" guitars are awfully Nice one from Pic's I remember seeing.
My "Beater" is my 1112-1 Custom Balladeer. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Both mine are non'O' wood boxes. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | TNV360BG or TNV760SC |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Sweetwater T...which I'm gonna put up for sale pretty soon.
Then it'll be my 1115. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | The one I throw in the truck or the travel trailer is my Academy KA14, even though no one would consider it a beater. |
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Location: ms | Right now my 0001 Martin. A great little guitar that spent the most part of its life too hot or too cold, but no cracks not many dings. It just has that vintage look. |
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Location: Utah | My collection is too small to have a beater. The first halfway decent guitar my parents bought me in 1968 or so was a Yamaha acoustic. The bridge has peeled up and it is unplayable. The next worst instrument is my mint 6778LX (still for sale...). |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Yikes! |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Mine is the Applause I got in '75 or so. Still going strong.
For electric, a Strat copy. I don't let just anyone play my Breadwinner - it's too cool. :) |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Dupe post! |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Again! What's happening? |
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Location: SoCal | I don't really have any beater guitars. Maybe, currently, my 1537? But oddly enough, I'm having a beater built...... |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Again! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You know, "beater" is such a derrogatory term. I like to think more in terms of
- guitar I just grab and play
- not worried about a stand or a case
- lean it against the chair, wall, amp, whatever
- never wipe off the fingerprints
- take it anywhere, pass it to anyone
- never worry about humidity, scratches, etc.
For me that would be the Academy and the 430SS. The academy for obvious reasons. Shit I sent it to a party once along with a box of dry erase markers and instructions to "have it it". I can't think of too many guitars that people would do that to and not blink. Dut despite being a "beater", it's actually a kick ass sounding and playing guitar. Definately in the mid part of the Ovation line. Way better than a lot of Legend and Elite type guitars.
The 430SS is the other one but for different reasons. It's hard to call a $1500 guitar, with the worlds best pre-amp system, a "beater". But it's just my do-everything, take-anywhere, and never worry about it guitar. In the last 8 months since I got it it has easily 20x the playing hours on it than any other guitar in the house. It's not "the best" guitar in the house by a long shot but it's a guitar that I just always gravitate to and it never disappoints. If you had to buy one all around guitar on a 1500 budget there might not be a better choice out there.
OK, Beat On !!!
Dvae |
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Location: SoCal | I'm guessing that the 430SS is a Tak? |
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Location: Jet City | Yeah, it's a Tak. I've been looking at the 430SS for a while now. It has a purdy burst too. |
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Location: Jet City | oh, beater... um if we're going by Dave's standards, acoustically, the 1117 Deluxe Balladeer, plugged in the 1778LX which has been designated the playing out guitar (all bung holes are plugged, and it stays in the case ready to run out the door at a moment's notice) |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
You know, "beater" is such a derrogatory term. I like to think more in terms of
- guitar I just grab and play
- not worried about a stand or a case
- lean it against the chair, wall, amp, whatever
- never wipe off the fingerprints
- take it anywhere, pass it to anyone
- never worry about humidity, scratches, etc.
OK praps not beater - let's see in relation to my 83 and 93...
- guitar I just grab and play - yup
- not worried about a stand or a case - hangs on wall
- lean it against the chair, wall, amp, whatever - yes but carefully
- never wipe off the fingerprints - yup
- take it anywhere, pass it to anyone - yup but in OHSC
- never worry about humidity, scratches, etc - erm no |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | 2080D
Lowden S23C tuned to open D |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I have an old Yamaha that I call the "house guitar". It's the one I'll let anyone play who comes into the shop for a jam, loan out to friends who need a guitar to play at the Flatiron on last minute notice, and never have to worry about. It has low, comfortable action and a big booming bass. A lot of people have asked about buying it, but I won't sell it. Then I wouldn't have a "beater" anymore! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Mine would be a the Martin 000X1. Almost as bullet proof as an Ovation.
The only 6 string steel Ovation I own is the 97 Collectors which I might bring to the next jam. |
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| I have a friend/collector in Phoenix who sold me an excellent '92 1767 a few years ago. I heard from him today, he also has his original 80's model 1767 for sale now. I don't have the extra cash now or I'd buy it. It's in very good condition, the neck is straight, the frets are dressed, and the top is aged to a honey color. You could get a very nice 'better than a beater' Legend and original case for 3 to 4 hundred.
If anyone is interested. I'll forward his info. He's a stand-up guy, buys and sells high quality guitars.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I already posted mine but Dave put down all the reasons to which I will add that if either Tak ever went missing or "died" they are immediately replaceable with an equal. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I knew I should have tried the Tak at the jam. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I leave the Custom Balladeer up in the cabin for the summer, but the one that probably is the least susceptible to temperature changes is the Matrix. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Bill er...Beal did a really nice job at slimming the baseball bat sized neck of that Tak BG to make it much more comfortable to play. You'd think he knew what he was doing or something. ;) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | BTW, I guess mine is the Adamas. The only one I don't worry about the humidity, temperature, or getting scratched on the top. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Jim,
That is a great guitar. :cool: |
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Location: Jet City | You know, I shoulda tried to get someone to slim that BG neck down for me before I let it go. I gotta say, it's one of the best sounding guitars I've ever heard that TF360SBG |
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Location: Indiana | Beater? Yamaha FG180.....something around vintage 1973 or thereabouts. Needs some more work but holy moly that thing has a wonderful tone to it.
Duane |
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Location: GA USA | Ditto Beatle. Mine's an FG200. It served so well for so long that I should reward it with some fret work. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Adamas 1881. I bought the 1778RF for this purpose but I'm having difficulty with the full bowl flame paint. It is just too pretty to mistreat. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I don't have one.
I bought a Trekker for that purpose. Had it for 3 or so years and ended up selling it... still in mint condition. |
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Location: Just outside Dallas, TX | A Seagull S6+... ~ 250 Case included... The Top is a little sensitive to scratches etc as it's unfinished Cedar, but I'm not taking a $1000 Guitar on a Plane, to the Woods Camping etc |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Just to clarify, the BG neck isn't any thinner than it was, it's just a little more V shaped. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Beal,
Now I know I should have played your guitar. |
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Location: NW NJ | Tak EF349 - hangs on the wall in my office at church and all the young people know that they can play it any time they want. Has a couple of nicks on the front, but it is panelmaster all around and built like a tank. The neck is perfect though and the action is terrific. Sweet playing and overall good sounding guitar. When you plug it in, it sounds just like any other tak... amazing! |
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Location: SoCal | You know, a beater guitar isn't a guitar that you've beaten the snot out of, it's a guitar that you're willing to take any where and play, or allow anybody to play it. And by that definition, 90% of my guitars are beaters even tho' they span my 87C to my 1537 to my GC RI. About the only guitar I own that doesn't fit in that catagory is the OFC'er (ding!)..... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I don't know... I'd cry if any of mine got a scratch on them.
I do have the 1121 and the 1617, both of which are pretty-well trashed...
But I still don't wanna dent them anymore than they already are...
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Location: Tennessee | 1982 Collectors I bought from standingovation for less than two bills. Electronics are missing, tuners are swapped out to plain chrome, the tops has tons of lacquer cracks, there are parts on the top where it looks as if someone used nail polish to touch up scrapes and dings, the neck binding has its share of cracks, and one of the headstock ears has been quite obviously glued back on. But it sounds killer and plays like a dream. It is the acoustic guitar my son used on "Fool's End" which is on the OFC3 disk. It is the Timex of all guitars. |
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| Dave had better be looking after my custom Custom Legend better than that.
Tho he can sell it to me for less than two bills. |
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Location: Chicago | Well... My main axe IS my beater here in Chicago..  |
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What's your beater?