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Location: Destin FL | Im sooooo happy to find this web site much Ovation info here so I joined !! Tryin to track down the year of my balladeer's birth. It is a 4861 model. Think it is Korean made as it has a 7 digit serial number 8054050. Can any one confirm that or help me ?? |
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Location: NJ | Mark
if it was made in korea, it is difficult to come up with the right number BUT AFAIK balladeers were only made in korea a year or a half a year and that would have been about 5 or 6 years ago. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | According to the Price List link, my 4861 is either eight or eighteen years old. The serial number of mine is nine-million-and-change.
The Price List says that 4861's were made from 1986 to 1989, and again in 1998.
So your guess is as good as mine. |
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Location: Destin FL | Thanks for the info...guess all those ovations that were made in Korea are like lost step children....makes me love my balladeer even more! |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Which preamp is on it? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | that would be a good clue on the year. |
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Location: Destin FL | Thank you for the intrest in my post yall this is really my only hope of finding out about my guitar. My pre amp says op-24+ in the bottom left hand corner, then a volume slide then 3 push buttons then the bass, mid and treble slides |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Link to the OP24+ Owner\'s Manual at Jerome\'s
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Location: Upper Left USA | 1987-1990 Manufacture. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | I don't think the OP24+ was available before 1990. This one is from the nineties. |
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Location: Destin FL | Well... that is my preamp So Im gonna say my balladeer is a 1990 model . One other piece of info I have noticed is that on top of the balladeer sticker inside are the words Ovation@USA embosed into the "plastic". Yet as I said on the sticker it says made in Korea. Do you belive that it is a 1990 model? |
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Location: NJ | The bowls are made in the US.
The guitars are made in Koh-Ree-Ahh . . . |
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year of birth?