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Location: south east Michigan | Martin must have seen Ovation's Heroin Diarys guitar and figured they were missing out on something.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | too bad they didn't figure out what. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Makes me hate Martin more than I allready do!
People talk about "Taylor" snobbery, which is more true then I care to admit as an owner of one. But the same can be said about a lot of Martin owners, not all, just a lot.
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Location: East Tennessee | Kinda looks like a "Daisy Rock". |
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Location: south east Michigan | They're only making 200 of them.
I bet it's not because they wanted to make it some sort of collector thing but more of something like Christopher Martin coming down to the production floor and saying, "WAIT! STOP! That's enough of that!!!" |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | They regularly produce this limited run painted top drek. Someone must be buying them. Not me. By the way ...
Is the background color mauve? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Looks like Taylor is the only one who doesn't have to resort to rediculous graphic schemes to make their guitars totally unappealing ...
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Location: GA USA | I totally would understand Dean or Ibanez (or even Ovation) doing something like this, but it seems un-Martinish. I like the Felix the Cat guitars, at least they belong in the same era as a Martin. I cannot imagine anyone wanting one of these. |
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Location: Tennessee | Wallhangers. Martin subscribes to the P.T. Barnum theory of consumerism. And they make lots of money. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | For a Looong time, Portland Music had one of them Hippie-Dippy Peace & Love ugly Martins in the window...
I don't know if they sold it or sent it back.
Oh Wow man... Did I do that? |
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| I can't stop looking at the Hippy Styled Martin!
That goffy looking crossed bones thing has got to be the worst idea I have ever seen. 200, I'll bet they make about a dozen. Should call it the DUMB X, someday 80 years from now they will be a collectors dream.
That Hippy guitar is something I'd never buy but it is really funny and somehow I find it mesmerizing ....well I like looking at it, I would not like owning it me thinks. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Sniff sniff.. what that I smell coming from my monitor?? Oh... It's nothing, just GOWG |
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Location: NJ | . . it even makes that stupid "Panda" look good. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I love my Martins, and am not a snob about it. I love my Ovations too. That's why I keep coming back to them. Martin really has gone over the top with these "special" guitars they have been making. They seem to theme a guitar after every possible thing on the planet. I sometimes wonder if they have mandatory drug testing there. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
I sometimes wonder if they have mandatory drug testing there. Apparently they were testing a bunch of 'em during that 'creation'!! :eek: |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
Sniff sniff.. what that I smell coming from my monitor?? Oh... It's nothing, just GOWG Ok, I'm tired and feel like crap today. Enlighten me on "GOWG"?
T.J., Sorry if I offended you w/the "snob" comment. NOT my intention. Like I said above,
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Is it that some Martin owners are snobs or do some Ovation owners have a persecution complex? Maybe a little of both?
I own both, I like both. They are completely different animals. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Of COURSE some martin owners are snobs. And some ovation owners, and some gibson owners, etc.
SNOB is just another word for FAN. This is the Ovation Snob Club. We believe our guitars are superior to others and therefor we are superior for being fans of them. The folks on the Martin, Collings or Takamine boards are no different.
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Location: South of most, North of few | I think the members here are a little different as we seem to be more tolerant to other brands. If you venture to another site (that will remain un-named) and mention Ovations, you will usually be abruptly cut off. (right Patch?) I know quite a few people here own different persuasions of the stringed animals, and they are all accepted here. We rejoice together when a member gets a new guitar, regardless of the brand. That's what I love about this place!! We're just GUITAR SNOBS. Hell, they even let a drummer or two in now and then. ;) |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Trader Jim: That's what I love about this place!! We're just GUITAR SNOBS. Hell, they even let a drummer or two in now and then. ;) [/QB] I seem to remember "we" have a slight dislike towards Banjo players?
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Location: South of most, North of few | Oh yeah,...forgot about that one.
Tim still looks good playing one with the Jiffy pop hat tho... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I could do without the drummers. Maybe it's because my daughter is living with one, at least until he goes to jail.
The other night I stopped by GC on the way home and there was the typical long haired fat kid smoking out in front of the store. I asked him what was going on inside and he told me it was the drum competition. I turned around and walked off as he pleaded that it wasn't too loud and I should go in. I don't suppose he ever thought someone might want to go to a guitar center and be able to hear a guitar. |
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| Painted guitars are a POS unless you paint it yourself to say something about you.
And it's almost certainly still a POS.
These guitars say nothing about Ovation or Martin - they say everything about the people who buy them. |
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| I am confused about "Who" it is, actually, that would buy something like this. Certainly not your typical Martin guitar fan would want it. The Metal guitarists have little use for acoustics to begin with, and I think most of the Kids who listen to this music would think this guitar is lame anyway. Can someone tell me what their target is for sales of this Fugly thing. Hey I was never a fan of the Lizard Skin Ovations or even the flame tops but at least they have an across the board detail painted feature that is a statement in general and they actually are well designed and have an appeal to differnt ages and styles. just not my taste so who cares. This thing is a complete waste of a very nice acoustic guitar. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Nub is the painter whose shop, "Nub Graphics" paints the Motorcycles for Orange County Choopers, which were made famous on "American Choppers"...
not my thing; but it looks much better than Heroin Diaries IMHO... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Snobs, yes there are Martin snobs. They are a pain in the ass. Has Martin fostered this? Yes. Have they done enough in their time to justify the attitude that they are the best? Also yes. So the point is I can handle Martin snobs because the product has earned it's stripes over the years.
That other company that was mentioned, I don't think they have.
And yes, I'm sure they were testing some good drugs the day they came up with this. If not they should have! |
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| Originally posted by an4340:
By the way ... Is the background color mauve? No, it's just bad. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It looks like purplish-blue to me, but it's probably lavender. I'm frequently corrected about my colors. |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
It looks like purplish-blue to me, but it's probably lavender. I'm frequently corrected about my colors. I believe that is periwinkle. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
I totally would understand Dean or Ibanez (or even Ovation) doing something like this, but it seems un-Martinish. I like the Felix the Cat guitars, at least they belong in the same era as a Martin. I cannot imagine anyone wanting one of these. I tried the Felix guitar and liked it too. But this thing is horrible. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Yeah, periwinkle. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Was picking up some mdi cables at GC last night and I spotted THIS ONE
It's actally a few hundred less expensive than the NUB (GC price was 699). I'd never tried one of these laminated top paint jobs before so I gave it a whirl, dead strings and all. I've got to say, for the money it's really not half bad. Probably in the neighborhood of an ovation import Ultra or something like that.
I've currently got an old Celebrity stapled to the high wall of the music room as a piece of 3D Artwork. I'm thinking maybe this 175th thing might look kind of cool up there. I mean the top actually IS art. Maybe need to see how far zit faced GC sales boy wants to drop trou.
I know some will think this guitar is ugly. That's OK.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I saw that guitar in my Martin catalog and thought the same thing. If I had a nice music room or a den (and a LOT of extra money) it would be cool to hang on the wall. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Those Orange County guys are just north of NYC, in Orange County, NY. For the longest time I thought it was in that hip / cool orange county in CA .... little did I know. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I thought the same thing until I saw an episode with all the leaves fallen off the trees and frost on the ground. Dave |
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