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Location: Jet City | Yup! I couldn't resist. I've been wanting a Custom EliteLX for quite some time and now I have one!
The Ovation Roadshow came through town and the local store (where I bought my first O acoustic) had special pricing for the event. I was 95% there, then they said anyone who buys an Ovation tonight gets a free iDea preamp... That's when my mind was made up, I had to have it!
Unfortunately it means giving up that first EliteLX I bought there (see For Sale Section), but this thing is FAN-F'n-TASTIC!
The lows don't quite rumble like my 2080 or deep bowl Al DiMeola, but the balance is really surprising. I was really liking the sound, but then I tuned to open G, and absolutely fell in love with it. I played Zeppelin's "That's The Way" and it sounded great! I can't wait until it's opened up like the 1778LX it's replacing.
As for the looks, well what can I say but...
BRAVO OVATION!
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Location: Jet City | Oh, and one of my most favorite parts, my first OpPro Studio!
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Location: big island | i swear, fender/ovation should hire you to take their catalog/web photos. beautimous! |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by lanaki:
i swear, fender/ovation should hire you to take their catalog/web photos. beautimous! +1 on that.
Is that a matt black finish on that, or just your superb photographic skills? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Very Nice!
Looks just like my 2778LX.
'Cept for the ebony fretboard and the abalone markers and pearl tuners and the OP-Pro Studio and and the abalone binding and more bling and no pick-tracks and...
Does that have a Contour Bowl?
BTW-- I was trying to decide if I was gonna put gold tuners in my 2778LX... Yeah, I think so! |
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Location: Jet City | TAFKAR - It's glossy. Really it's white reflection you see
OMA - It's a contour bowl. My rhythm player has one just like yours, a 2778LX (burst). It's a great guitar. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | (sounds of slobber and drool hitting the floor)
Nize! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's real glossy. The lack of reflection is Damon's camera magic. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You do the very best guitar porn.
I'm sure that's immoral or illegal somewhere.... |
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Location: Newington, CT | Just beautiful! Great pictures! Again. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by fillhixx:
You do the very best guitar porn.
I'm sure that's immoral or illegal somewhere.... Certainly immoral...because it GUARANTEES that we will commit a mortal sin: envy. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Very nice. Gloss black with abalone. Op-Pro Studio. Inset epaulets. Nobody makes a guitar look so beautiful and desirable as Damon. What a gift. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Very nice. Gloss black with abalone. Op-Pro Studio. Inset epaulets. Nobody makes a guitar look so beautiful and desirable as Damon. What a gift. Well said, Prof.! |
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Location: Jet City | Thanks everyone. It really is much better looking in person.
I just got back from the doc because of some neck issues, and he told me no playing for a couple days. Bummer
(To top things off, I'm sitting on the side of the freeway right now waitng for roadside assistance. Tire blew. I just got all new ones too, mustve hit something) |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Wow. That is a really great looking guitar, Damon. Congrats. |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | Originally posted by Damon67:
I can't wait until it's opened up like the 1778LX it's replacing.
You take the very best pics, I swear!
I bought mine brand new in March of this year, and it gets better every time I play it! An awesome instrument!
Congrats, that black is beautiful.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Nice guitar Damon...hope the neck improves...I know quite a bit about that... |
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Location: Seattle | very nice guitar.... wish I could of stayed to hear you play.
Good to have the support of the significant in the ongoing quest for the perfect guitar....... Travel guitar for the side of the road next time? |
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Location: Derry NH | I knew joining this board was gonna suck for my bank account!!! :D
Nice machine! |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Beautiful guitar. Congrats on the good deal. |
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Location: Michigan | I have never had a guitar that clean... |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by twistedlim:
I have never had a guitar that clean... They had it on the floor less than a week. The strings hadn't even been stretched. I've never had a guitar so clean either. That's gonna change though, there's one on it's way straight from the factory! (another first for me). |
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A brand new guitar deserves the red blanket treatment!