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Location: Milford, MI | To start, I love Ovation guitars and I have since the early 80's when I got my first. Ovation lover for life.
Long story short: Wife bought me a Sigma FD-16M in the mid 90's and being an Ovation person and not wanting to hurt her feelings I took it in.
I played it and just didn't like it. But I told her it was a keeper. (Gift from the wife I better keep it). lol.
Fast forward to 2010! Sitting in a case most of it's life did it a world of good. I went to buy strings for a couple of my guitars and for some reason I got strings for the Sigma. 17 years sitting in a case with the same strings I thought it might be time.
Well, I put the strings on and didn't do anything else. Truss rod, nothing. It has to be the best sounding guitar I have heard in a long time.
As I said. Ovation lover but, this cheap wood box just has Mojo! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My brother was in a band in the 80s. Last year his son wanted to start guitar, so he borrowed a Sigma from our other brother and then found an old Sigma in the attic. I played both at Thanksgiving and they were darn nice guitars. |
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Location: Milford, MI | I can't believe how this guitar changed. It sounds really good. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Thats aging process |
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Location: Milford, MI | Diamond in the rough I guess! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Everything ignored gets better till you pay it enough attention and then the cycle repeats. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Beal:
Everything ignored gets better till you pay it enough attention and then the cycle repeats. I don't think so. I ignored my back and it blew up on me. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Probably didn't have enough strings on it. I've heard you need at least 6. |
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Location: Milford, MI | But it's so much easier to play with just 3 strings. Only half the notes to deal with. |
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| I played a Goya T-18 a few days ago (the name sounds like a Russian interceptor from the Cold War). Anyway, the guitar was made around 1963 and has a great sound and good action - have to keep an eye out for one of these as they are pretty well undervalued. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I've got one (a Goya). Nope, it's not for sale, but it IS a sweet guitar. I used to have a Sigma, way back in the 70's, and I've had quite a few used ones come through the shop. Decent guitars for the price, for sure. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Igorowitch .. |
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Location: Tennessee | My bro-in-law, who's mostly an electric player, had a Sigma. Nice, but nothing to write home about. Ended up trading it for a Westerley Guild. Nice trade. I always thought Takamines were the japanese guitars to get at that time, but the Sigmas were nice Martin knockoffs. |
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OT: Sigma guitars.