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| Hi -- just found this site, tho I've had an Ovation for a while. I'm looking at another to buy: Standard Elite LX 6868. The one I own (Legend) has the serial number in plain view on the head. This used Elite does not, only a number inside - anyone know if that's what the Elite should look like? this is used and I'm not a guitar expert, don't want to get taken.. |
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Location: closely held secret | Should look like this (or maybe in black):
6 String Acoustic / Electric
Body Type: Super Shallow Cutaway
Top: Solid Spruce
Bracing: Scalloped LX
Scale Length: 25 1/4"
Scale:
Fretboard: Bound Rosewood
Fret Inlay: Dots / Diamonds
Bridge: Rosewood
Rosette: Inlaid Exotic Hardwood Epaulets
Pickup: Original Patented Pickups
Nutwidth: 1 11/16"
Machines: Chrome |
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| thanks - it does look like that exactly. Just want to be sure the serial number tag is legit. My other one actually says: SERIAL NO ######, this one says OVATION ######. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | It's been awhile since I had a Standard Elite LX in my hands, but it seems to me that the serial numbers have been stamped on the back of the headstocks for the last few years. A serial number sticker inside the body below the neck goes back quite a few years, and I can't imagine a current model Ovation, e.g. an LX, having one there.
Where in the body is this serial number located; on the main label, or elsewhere? Does the main label identify the model as an LX?
Maybe I'm overreacting, but I'd hate to see someone get sold a Standard Elite as an LX. |
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Location: NW NJ | I'm with Paul. I think that all of the LX's have the SN stamped into the wood on the back of the headstock. I've had three, and played about a dozen more and the SN has always been there. Of course, the inlaid epaulets, OP-Pro preamp and the "LX" on the TRC are easy visual indicators that you're probably in the LX series. |
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| thanks for the comments, really appreciated. could be that it isn't an LX. The s/n is on its own inside the guitar, not on the Ovation model tag, a separate one. If it's a STD Elite 6868 should the s/n still be on the outside? It does say made in the US by the way. |
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Location: closely held secret | If it's a non-LX 6868 it shouldn't have a truss rod cover at all, may have two pearl dots on the bridge, no fret inlays and no body binding.
~~~LX
~~Non-LX
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I have an '04 Std Elite LX. Ser.# is stamped on the back of the headstock. An LX will ALWAYS have inlaid epaulets, will ALWAYS have a trussrod cover on the headstock, will ALWAYS have the scalloped X-bracing (though you'd have to be able to look inside the guitar to see).
So...easy-to-spot LX features: trussrod cover and inlaid epaulets. If these are missing, it's NOT an LX, but rather an older-style model. |
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Info needed - Standard Elite LX 6868