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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | ... HERE! 
Woody,
When did ya move to Houston!!! 
How did I get to that site...? 1615 @ CL |
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Location: New Hampsha | The building instructions might have missed the whole "roundback idea" behind Ovations?
Get some wood, cut it out, glue it together with some clamps, add your pre-made neck, and voila - you have an Ovation replica?
Pretty low opinion of O's.... |
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Location: Vernon CT | Build one, I gotta learn to play one!!! :D ;) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Reminds me of a Bill Cosby routine where he talks about saving his money to send for the "Clipper Ship" model sold on the back page of a Comic book (must be over 45 to remember this).
When he got it the "kit" was a block of wood and an exacto knife with directions that said "carve block of wood until it looks like the ship on the back of the comic book. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Wat tha....? I've seen a few, check that, a lot of stupid things in my life, but that ranks right up there. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Reminds me of a comedy skit in Australia taking off "Playschool" (a well known children's show:
Wendy: Today Alan will teach us how to play the flute.
Alan: Yes boys and girls. First hold the flute like this, then blow in this end, while wriggling your fingers up and down the holes.
Wendy: Wonderful! And next week Alan is going to teach us how to solve world hunger. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Well, wait a minute. His spirit is admirable. A bit simple, but honorable.
No, it probably won't look much like an Ovation, when finished.
Just get an old Applause beater & a bottle of Elmer's. Yeah, that's the ticket. And, the zeitgeist of the BFLG. |
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Location: NJ | that is so stupid |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I have Always Known that building Gits was n`t difficult .. just did n`t know it was that easy .. I`ll probably have a couple ready fer X-mas.. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Where are the photos of the completed project?
"Now, I’m not saying you’ll get the exact same quality of sound but boy oh boy, you just built an ovation guitar replica (or at least a wannabe)!!!"
And I apparently missed the part about making the bowl :confused: |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Good thing his heart is in the right place 'cuz I think I know where his head is. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Ok, so I did the trace and cut.
Now what?
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Location: New Hampsha | I can't figure that site out - there's a lot of work on that site, and it's pretty nicely delivered.
But the information is so shallow - a mile wide and a millimeter deep. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Mitzdawg:
there's a lot of work on that site, and it's pretty nicely delivered Agreed. Good basic info, except for the turd 'build' page. But obviously an Ovation fan nonetheless. |
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Location: Austin | Hi everyone, lol, I'm glad you all got to check out one of my articles. Seems like it might have been a dumb idea lol. My grand daddy use to make guitars in Mexico and I wanted to learn how to do the same. Needless to say, I wasn't very good at it. I love Ovations which is why I gave it the catch title, but to be honest, it doesn't match up lol at least not the one I made. I think I will put some pics up later of the project when I find them.
On the other hand, thanks for the comments on the site, I tried my best to display the information well. I'll work on making the information more informative, more depth, less width. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Welcome OR from Austin!
Hang around, contribute and buy some guitars! |
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Location: New Hampsha | A Big OFC Welcome to OR!
Your site is off to a great start - it has Professional presentation and shows a lot of promise. Keep beefing it up and it will be fine. In the meantime, like MW says, buy a few guitars and ou can write a bunch more reviews! |
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Location: Austin | Yeah, I'm looking to get a 12 String, I'm looking to get some friends to write reviews for me since I haven't touch all the ovation guitars. In any case, if anyone here is interested in writing a review and wants to make 5-10 bucks or something let me know.
I'm in the process of writing three or rather breaking one re view about the celebrity into three parts.
Any takers?
Tony
TOR.com |
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Location: Austin | Hey you know what I just thought of? I can post your sales on my site. I'm just starting to get some organic traffic from the search engines? Anyone interested adding their own personal ad or sale on the site for free?
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Location: Upper Left USA | I'll pass on the sale posts, as it is when I post at Ebay, CL, Tacoma Guitars and the OFC there's enough Byts scattered around to clean up. But thank you kindly. |
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Location: Austin | Originally posted by MWoody:
I'll pass on the sale posts, as it is when I post at Ebay, CL, Tacoma Guitars and the OFC there's enough Byts scattered around to clean up. But thank you kindly. Okay that's cool.
Thanks for the warm welcome! :D
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I never realized that building guitars was so easy! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Marketing. Ah, there's the rub. |
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| Originally posted by Ovation Review:
Hey you know what I just thought of? I can post your sales on my site. I'm just starting to get some organic traffic from the search engines? Anyone interested adding their own personal ad or sale on the site for free?
Tony Welcome OR! I'm a former Tupperware lady, so I have some plastic if you need it for the back of your guitar! :D
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Guitarzannie:
I'm a former Tupperware lady, so I have some plastic if you need it for the back of your guitar! Small world, I'm a former Tupperware guy. |
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Location: closely held secret | It's a match made in Orlando. |
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| Small world, I'm a former Tupperware guy. You're a rare breed indeed! :D
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