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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I have an Ovation Patriot that I have to let go. It's an early one, withOUT the electronics.
I don't really want to, but things are getting tight all around. It's in very good shape, hardly any wear from use, but has a couple of minor dings that you can find if you look close enough that I surmise just came from moving it around.
If you are interested, email me at mileskb at aol.com.
It's going on eBay in the next couple of days if no one jumps on it from here.
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Location: SoCal | Guys and gals...this is a great guitar...deep bowl, AAA spruce, A braced, great neck...from what I read on the Ovation site, this is the guitar that influenced Ovation to come out with the Collectors series...why? Even in the 1st couple of years, this guitar was attracting collectors. I have one of the acoustic and one of the a/e's.
In 1976, production run of 1,776, mold for the decal destroyed.
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Location: Jet City | I just saw this guitar up close last weekend. It's in VERY good shape, and had I had the $$, well... It would have been gone then. |
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Location: SoCal | great guitar for July 4th...
Marine Corps, Navy, Army, Air Force, or Coast Guard birthday... |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | I have #76, and it's going nowhere anytime soon. Love the sound, love the look, love everything about it. Good luck Miles. Someone here should take this one, you won't be disappointed. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | A true patriot might hold off until he has a bunch of OFC fans at his house on July 4 to try to sell this. |
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Location: NJ | Why? . . so he can put it on eBay on July 7th?? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by cliff:
Why? . . so he can put it on eBay on July 7th?? ... the eternal optimist!  |
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Location: NJ | Realist. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I might win the lottery between now and then. |
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Location: NJ | yer more likely t'grow hair . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It was a stencle, made in several steps by the same people who did the work for Hitchcock Chair. After the 1776th guitar the stencle(or however you spell it!) was destroid. |
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Location: Gig Harbor, Washington | ...the stencil was destroyed... |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Miles:
Can you tell us your asking price for this beauty? I don't need another deep body 6 string but I love the whole patriot thing. I'm one of those old fashioned guys. I'd especially like to take it over to my friend's house (who only buys chinese guitars). We argue about it all the time.
So I'm hoping you tell me something high enough that I don't have a prayer of affording. Otherwise, I may go grovelling.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | It's now on eBay.
Ovation Patriot eBay Listing |
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Location: SoCal | Miles,
Looks like a great guitar and price... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I can't figure out why I didn't find it when I searched for Ovation under Musical Instruments on ebay. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | That seems to be a very reasonable BIN on the Patriot! As I find my self saying so often these days, I wish I was in the market!
BTW Miles, do you happen to have High res pics of your Patriot? That would be perfect for July in the OFC Calendar. |
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Location: SoCal | This isn't Miles' but this is a nice one...
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Location: Orlando, FL | So Tony, Got high res pics? I'd really like a Patriot for the July calendar page... |
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Location: SoCal | That's the best that I have...an OFC story...lifted from a German website and put in my gallery as an example...then, the guy that owned the guitar listed on OFC to sell...several OFC'ers challenged him as to stealing my pics...solved by my adopting the guitar.
Will retake the photo when I have a little time this week as I have the COA, etc. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Designzilla:
do you happen to have High res pics of your Patriot? That would be perfect for July in the OFC Calendar. I'll see if I can't get some good ones of #76 the next day with nice weather here. :cool: I'm still curious as to the specific definition of hi-res. I use a 10 megapixel camera, but beyond that, I'm pretty ignorant of things photographic. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That should be plenty good, Patch. I've been thinking about Miles' guitar all day, but a couple days ago it was the Koa Collector. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Patch, Just set your camera for setting for highest quality. Or if it asks for a specific size, just pick the biggest numbers you see!
Thanks!
And somebody here really should grab this Patriot, I wish I could - nice guitar! |
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Location: Jet City | iffy? did you just pick this thing up? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Looks like it. If so, iffy, I should probably thank you for saving me a bunch of time trying to figure out how to make this work. It was one of those guitars that never was on my want list until Miles posted this and I started thinking about it. That's only happened 50 times or so on this board. Now I'll go back to thinking about Koas. I think last month it was Vipers, after I got the 83 Collector etc. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | As I told Miles, I bleed Red, White and Blue. This will be nice sitting next to my Washburn D2001PWH 9/11 Commemorative on July 4th!
Mark,
You sound a lot like me, 'Flavor of the Moment'... Glad I could take the pressure off ya!
This puts the OFC Koa on the back burner for a while. There have been some awesome gits offered lately; PF-22s, the 1776, some nice BWs, etc.
The Patriot has beckoned me for quite a while! I consider myself fortunate to adopt this classic. Besides, with my nomer, it was a natural match!  |
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Location: SoCal | Mark,
Not so fast...this one 880/1776, acoustic, was merely adopted, not necessarily for sale but always available to an OFC'er.
Yes, with COA... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
Mark,
Not so fast... No mercy... Tony> 
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Location: SoCal | Well, we have to have a little fun once in awhile.
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | You're gonna love it Iffy! We'll expect you to follow up once you have it of course. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was actually concocting schemes in my mind to try to bring it back from our NW Gathering at Miles' on the 4th. Those sorts of schemes in my mind always sound kind of stupid when they come out of my mouth.
Tony, thanks for the offer and if you need a place to store it for awhile, let me know. In the meantime, I'll go back to dreaming about Koas until then next temptation comes up. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
In the meantime, I'll go back to dreaming about Koas until then next temptation comes up. I've got a couple of temptations brewing in the next few weeks. Gotta pay for my mothership projects. ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The 97 and 01 are on my list, Patch, so get thee behind me, at least for awhile. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Mark,
The '97 (Thanx TJ!) is the 'grab and play' that I keep next to me at the 'puter. Awesome 'O'!!! |
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Location: Jet City | congrats iffy! just so you know, I TOUCHED IT! :D |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Damon67:
I TOUCHED IT! :D Miles, MILES!!!,
Damon touched my '76... 
D67, hopefully ya got to play it. Now in my case, it's just a prolong episode of 'touching'. :D |
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Location: Jet City | I did not unfortunately. I probably could have, but I wouldn't have heard it. It was in a noisy setting, and I had one thing on my mind...
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Damon67:
PF-22 Turd... :D I just didn't pull the trigger quick enough.
But I do now have a 'top three' that was on my list! 
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Check for cashews or worse when you get it, iffy. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Check for cashews or worse when you get it, iffy. "Rut-row", my bride is hyper-allergic to peanuts and cashews... Does that mean I can legitimately hide it from her? :D
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Yeah. Tell her that there's this thing about putting cashews in Ovations, so you were trying to protect her. If she doesn't believe you, you could probably search for cashews and show her the thread. |
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