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Location: Greenville, SC | I have posted before regarding my Dads guitar which I am trying to find out about. I have e-mailed Kim Keller and she was helpful. According to her it is a custom built 1868 that Bil Kaman signed. It has a bear-claw spruce top and Adamas-style epaulets. The serial # (?) is 1868 X and the # 4/6 follows. I have posted pictures of the guitar on my web site www.foreversouthern.com. Can anone tell me if I have something special or is it just another nice guitar? Thanks |
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Location: ranson,wva | Originally posted by Forever Southern:
[qb] I have posted before regarding my Dads guitar which I am trying to find out about. I have e-mailed Kim Keller and she was helpful.
kim keller is a guy, i can atest to the fact that he is a dude. verry helpfull too i might add...jason |
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Location: GA USA | Jason, are you sure?
BTW, Kim's a fox too. |
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Location: Greenville, SC | Sorry Kim!!! |
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Location: Scotland | I glad I stuffed Kim's bikini top with tissue paper, he would've looked totally ridiculous with a flat chest. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Looks like you have a very nice custom built guitar. It's special. I have 12 special Ovations, but none are so special that they were originally my Dad's. I hope that my daughters will be able to say that their Ovations are special because they were their Dad's. |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
I glad I stuffed Kim's bikini top with tissue paper, he would've looked totally ridiculous with a flat chest. Raul, do you expect us to forget you said that? Maybe we'll put it on your tombstone.
But I'm glad you helped him out. I'd have hated for him to look ridiculous. |
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Location: SoCal | It's the visual of Temp putting his hand in Kim's bikini top that just grosses me out..... |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
It's the visual of Temp putting his hand in Kim's bikini top that just grosses me out..... Didn't bother you when you were helping.
If anyone "needs" to be reminded, there are some pictures of this sorry event in my gallery. Not for the squeamish |
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Location: NJ | Oh, . . . the utter shame of it . . .
(or in Brad's case, the udder shame of it . . . . - sorry, Bradster). |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Back to the beauty under discussion... er, the guitar: I had one of those a few years ago along with a matched 1867-X. I was told there were six such sets made for giving to certain dealers or reps. I can't attest to it being true, but that's the story I remember.
I have a lot of stories like that from over the years, most in my younger days. I don't remember dressing up like Kim. The problem may be the times I CAN'T remember. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I was told there were six such sets made for giving to certain dealers or reps . ."
Judging by the fact that the label on this one says "4 of 6", that kinda' coincides . . . |
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Location: SoCal | The epaulets are the same as on one of the collectors editions (1992 -- see link to ebay auction), which would date it to about the same time.....
http://cgi.ebay.com/1992-OVATION-USA-COLLECTORS-SERIES-ACOUSTIC-ELE... |
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Location: NJ | Those am some Fugly epaulettes . . . |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I don't like the epps either, but noaccounting for taste (especially mine).
Is that a Walnut fingerboard?
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Location: Greenville, SC | Thanks guys, it does have a simular resembalance to the guitar on e-bay. Mine is still in the case and if it has been played it dosn't look like it. I did remove the 9v battery just in case it leaked and lossened the string to keep the neck stright. I think the idea that it was made in or around 1992 may be correct. I do know that Dad bought it, I think new, around that time from a dealer in Gaffney, SC. Well if it is worth anything near the asking price for the one on e-bay I think I will take several more pictures of it and make sure it is included in my homeowners insurance. Thanks again for your help! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Play it. That's what they're made for. |
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