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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Hi, it's the new guy again. Upon further inspection of my Balladeer 4861 (mik) it reads Ovation USA in raised letters inside my bowl. I already know by the model # and serial # that my geetar was made in Korea. But does this mean that the bowl was made in the US of A? Or is it just what they put there cuz they felt like it? Just kinda curious... |
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Location: ranson,wva | i belive all the newer 'O bowls are made in the US...JASON |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Bowls are made for Ovation at a factory in Ashtabula, Ohio. I don't know how old your guitar is but no matter; that's where the bowl comes from.
In reading the copy for non-USA Ovations on their site I've noticed they're touting a "Made in the USA" bowl on foreign-made Ovations...as if to dilute the fact that it's an overseas product. ALL the Ovation bowls have ALWAYS been made here; it just wasn't moulded into the bowl before. John <>{ |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thankz folks. I saw an "investigative report" on TV... About Chinese laborers who get scammed by a promise of work in America. They end-up in Sweat-shops in Saipan (I think) which is kinda owned by the US. There are no real labor laws there, but the products can legally say "Made in USA". Creepy, huh?
Regardless, I like my guitar!
Anyway, thanks for the info... |
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| Uh-oh, now we gonna have Saipan O's masquerading as USA Ovation's?!..well, the proof is in the pudding so to speak, and after one strum it will be obvious they ain't the real mc coy... :) |
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Location: NJ | all the bowls are made in USA then shipped to other countries |
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Location: New Hartford, CT | This is true!....all the bowls are made in USA and are shipped to the factory in New Hartford CT, or shipped over seas to make lower lines of Ovation guitars. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | As Mr Flumage says, it is true. |
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Location: New Hartford, CT | BTW...the company that makes the bowls...once made corvette bodies....pretty cool huh?? |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I'm not going for any of that plastic bodied sports car stuff. I'm a traditionalist. I'm sticking with my wood body Morgan. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Wow !!an American car made in Korea,with Ovation space age technology,I`ll have one :) |
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Why does my bowl say Ovation USA?