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Location: Brisbane Australia | In response to the multitude of questions that are posed here about setting up a Ovation guitar what about creating an individual thread with a blow by blow description with relevent pics of how to set up our beloved instruments.
I know there are many sites on the net that cover this.....but not particular to Ovation.
If it was a permanent thread or link it would be easily available to all.
Thoughts.......??
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | The best place for this would be the reference section. If someone writes it up, I'll post it. |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | Very good plan!!
I would never advocate for total neubs doing potentially traumatic adjustments to their guitars, but you know as well as I do, that they are going to DO IT ANYWAY!!
At least this way they will have the benefit of the best advice possible from the most caring, informed people there are...
"... OK, children... today we will be learning how to put a condom on a banana...", lol |
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Location: South of most, North of few | OK, get the stones out...
What makes an Ovation different from any other guitar as far as from an engineering standpoint? Nut height, saddle height, neck relief, frets, etc... Google "how to set up a guitar" and you will find more than enough information to keep you busy for years, and it's pretty much ALL applicable to any Ovation/Adamas. This man is one of the best. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | You gonna start 'setting up' all yours, Jim?
Got a free year then?
(That's 'Hoarder Jim', not 'Trader Jim', BTW.) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Muzz, I do set up all my own gits. All the guitars in the pics are mostly gone. I only keep between 6 and 8 at a time. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Muzz, I do set up all my own gits. Which is exactly why he gets rid of them (for a loss) after a few months! :rolleyes:
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Location: South of most, North of few | Aren't you supposed to be hocking insurance or something? ;) :p |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Muzz, I do set up all my own gits. All the guitars in the pics are mostly gone. I only keep between 6 and 8 at a time. Long enough to open the box, take pictures (while waiting for his wife to mow the lawn) set them up, box them up and send them to the next guy. I left out "play them" because I wasn't sure TJ does that. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by muzza:
You gonna start 'setting up' all yours, Jim?
Got a free year then?
(That's 'Hoarder Jim', not 'Trader Jim', BTW.) That is the true downside that most people don't think about when they start collecting. Once you have more than 100 or even only 50 guitars, they one you want to play TODAY likely needs new strings and some sort of adjustment. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Muzz, I do set up all my own gits. All the guitars in the pics are mostly gone. I only keep between 6 and 8 at a time. Long enough to open the box, take pictures (while waiting for his wife to mow the lawn) set them up, box them up and send them to the next guy. I left out "play them" because I wasn't sure TJ does that. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Just jealous. Mine did help me set up some of the guitars next to the cars for last year's calendar, but gave me that disgusted look and a few comments to match.
On the other hand, there's probably not too many that would put up with us, much less take a guitar/car road trip for 2 weeks. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | My wife would and does.
Anything to keep me happy :D :cool: ;) |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Muzz, I do set up all my own gits. TJ, the question was addressed to HOARDER Jim, not TRADER Jim. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Sorry. I don't know him. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Yes you do. (Aussie James) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Ah, THAT one! |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Yeah he's about to hoard another Strat and Hamer............ :rolleyes:
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Yeah he's about to hoard another Strat and Hamer............ :rolleyes:
AJ Yeah AJ, you're going to love those two! |
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