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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Hey everyone!
It is time to share my joy! My FD 14 has arrived today and I must admit... I am speechless. I have never before played a guitar like this. It's simply amazing. The brilliance of sound and the ease with which it lets itself play is absolutely stunning. I am overwhelmed at the moment... (and I am saying all that playing the old strings. I haven't changed them yet - I'm scared the sound of new strings on this baby is going to kill me immediately).
So... ok... I have two questions before I continue playing.
1. I can't find the mysterious Number (xx/50). The Serial is stamped on the back of the head like this:
573118
USA
Since there are no other numbers, is it a custom made FD 14? I will try to contact the previous owner, but I'm not sure if it's gonna work, as he sold it over an agency. I have some doubts that they will give me his emailadress.
2. The Tuners have "made in germany" written on them. Is this spooky or normal? My 1614s tuners have the ovationlogo on them :confused:
I will take some photos and record some soundsamples later on to let you share my fun over at the social network ;)
So long!
A very happy
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Location: Yalova/Turkey | Congratulations Meuti...
As far as I learned from OFC, Ovation uses Schaller tuners, and Schaller is a German company. Normally the produce them with the Ovation name and logo, still they will most likely be original, just produced without the Ovation signature.
Anyway, since the sound is super, don´t worry about details too much. Enjoy the baby! I am looking forward to your samples.
Regards, Chris. |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Thank you Chris :)
I am not worried at all, the guitar is simply incredible. I love it! I'm just curious ;)
I added some photos on my ning-Page.
See them here if you like.
http://ovationfanclub.ning.com/profile/Meuti |
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Location: Yalova/Turkey | Looks wonderful :) And suited your garden fine :) |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Double congrats Meuti....I'm glad to hear your baby is safely in your hands and you love it !!!
The XX/50 should actualy be where is the serial number.
But wait for others comments .... There is a real FD14 club owners :D here and a dedicated thread in the archive...
Ciao |
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Location: Right now? | Wow, Meuti! Congratulations!!
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Location: Germany | Congratas Meuti! I've also owned an FD14 without the xx/50 serial number (which now owns a friend of mine in France). As far as I know they made some additonal specimens for the German (European?) market without the xx numbering. So there are more than 50 of them out there.
The "573118" is the standard Ovation serial number.
IMHO this guitar is THE best sounding wood-top Ovation. I only sold it because the neck wasn't my cup of tea.
Greetings from Nuremberg,
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Location: Pennsylvania | Beautiful! Congrats. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Ditto, congrats. Those are great guitars! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | That's a Nice One! |
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Location: Michigan | Nice shots! You know your photography well also. I like the blurred background of the headshock with perhaps a bit of fill flash? Congrats on the new guitar, may it give you years of happy playing. |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Thank you all for your nice words :) I've played the whole day yesterday, it's really hard to put this guitar out of hands again. It's such a joy to play and hear it... wow. I have really never played anything like this before... Unfortunately I woke up being ill this morning, so I won't play a lot today I'm afraid :(
@twisted: Thanks. All the photos were actually taken with available light only. I had a beautiful "lightsetup" with the sun shining through the leaves of my walnut-tree ;)
Originally posted by Charlie Ramon:
Congratas Meuti! I've also owned an FD14 without the xx/50 serial number (which now owns a friend of mine in France). As far as I know they made some additonal specimens for the German (European?) market without the xx numbering. So there are more than 50 of them out there.
The "573118" is the standard Ovation serial number.
IMHO this guitar is THE best sounding wood-top Ovation. I only sold it because the neck wasn't my cup of tea.
Thank you for those infos. Now that would explain the "made in Germany"-Schallers too. Is there any information on how many were made without unique number? As said before it certainly is the best Ovation and even the best guitar I have ever played and I feel really good to own it :) |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Mine is number 28 of the original 50, on the back of the headstock it has:
573118
USA
28/50
Nice tune, nice pics, nice guitar, a great combo :) |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Hey dweezil,
thank you. :) What about your tuners? Do they have Ovation written on them or made in Germany? |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Says made in Germany, they are schallers after all. |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | It's good to hear that, dweezil. Now the only secret left is the missing number. Does anyone have more infos about the additional "german/european FD14s"? |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | So glad it arrived safely. Enjoy and what a beauty.
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Originally posted by Meuti:
It's good to hear that, dweezil. Now the only secret left is the missing number. Does anyone have more infos about the additional "german/european FD14s"? Hey Folks ;)
Allow me to push this thread back to the top :D
I'm still very curious about the "number-less" FD14s... Anyone here has a clue? :confused:
And taking the chance of pushing up this post, let me also tell you that I changed the strings today... I am speechles.. The sound is really killing me (in a very good way) ^^ I put Adamas 1818 on and... whew.. just amazing... Now I only have to get my homerecording-stuff ready... sigh |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | There have been several models that were intended to be limited to a certain number. But sometimes distributors will come to the game late and some additional ones are built. |
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Location: Maine | Great Pics Meuti!
Does anyone know if there were ever any Ovation sales brochures or catalog sheets for the FD-14 model?
I think I've only seen a foreign magazine review on Jerome's site? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Here's the ovation press release of the FD14
http://www.ovationguitars.com/?fa=news&art=114 |
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Location: Tennessee | I played one at Moody's yesterday. I took it off the wall and played it a bit while Paul was telling me about how he'd probably sell it if Jer would let him and if it hadn't come to him in the special way that it did. And how that Tupperware cat thought they were the best wood top Ovations ever but Moody didn't really see it that way. Then after a few minutes of playing some lead licks behind Paul's performance of "City of New Orleans", The Moody One looked at me and declared it was an awesome sounding guitar and he could never sell it. Too bad because I was going to try and lowball him for it.
Congrats on a fine guitar! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Andrew's FUD that I adopted will be a feature attendee at this weekends festivities, along with the 'O'raqi.
What an awesome instrument! |
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Location: Maine | Cool .. I'd never seen that before..
It states 100 pcs ??? yet the pegheads are stamped xx/50... hmm?
Does anyone know how well it was received at the summer NAMM that year? I'm guessing aside from this group few others know of this model. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by TJR:
I'm guessing aside from this group few others know of this model. [/QB] And you'd be right.
I think only 50 (plus a few extra) were ever built.... |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
I played one at Moody's yesterday. I took it off the wall and played it a bit while Paul was telling me about how he'd probably sell it if Jer would let him and if it hadn't come to him in the special way that it did. And how that Tupperware cat thought they were the best wood top Ovations ever but Moody didn't really see it that way. Then after a few minutes of playing some lead licks behind Paul's performance of "City of New Orleans", The Moody One looked at me and declared it was an awesome sounding guitar and he could never sell it. Too bad because I was going to try and lowball him for it.
Congrats on a fine guitar! @Stonebobbbo: Thanks a lot for this post. It is exactly what I think of this guitar. It's a "wolf in a sheep costume" (I'm not sure if everyone gets this phrase, it's a poor translation of a common german... uh.. phrase? sorry ^^ - I'm sure there is an american phrase which is more common)
The FD14 looks so simple (and in someway "cheap") and is probably very often understated. But, I am not fooling you, since I own it, not a single day has passed that I haven't played this guitar. I am completly posessed by it's tone and playability. I really can't find any words that would come up to the joy and fun I am having playing her. I spent more of a complete months wage to get it and I really am in financial trouble now, but I don't regret it at all... (I'm getting pathetic, ain't I?)
@galler... dave...
I see what you're saying. I still would love to know more. Is there any way to find out how many "new" models where made and for what cause and what so ever? And is anyone aboard here that has another "unnumbered" FD 14?
Cheers!
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Meuti:
I am completly posessed by it's tone and playability. Aw c'on Meuti, ya can open up with us and let us know what ya really feel about the FUD...
Glad ya love it!  |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | see post below ^^ |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | :rolleyes: excuse me... this post is deletable xD |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Aw c'on Meuti, ya can open up with us and let us know what ya really feel about the FUD...
Glad ya love it! ok... you asked for it... if she was a girl I'd...
whew... I'm so glad I didn't really finish this sentence xD |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Meuti,
like Charlie and Dave said - it is (or was) possible for european distributors to order some of those "limited" guitars as special orders.
So happened with the FD14 as well as with the 1651 Ltd. Reissue - that was originally built (100 pieces) for the japanese market only. The so called JL3 (1651 Ltd.) for example was a "regular" model, that had to be specially ordered by dealers, for the german market.
To find out more about it you should check with the KMC distributors - which will be not too easy, since the/some european distributors are no longer Kaman distributors.
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | Hey Kurt,
mh, seems like it's rather hopeless to get more information then. Oh well, after all it's not that important. It's a great guitar and this is what counts I guess ;) |
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Location: Maine | Originally posted by TJR:
Great Pics Meuti!
Does anyone know if there were ever any Ovation sales brochures or catalog sheets for the FD-14 model?
I think I've only seen a foreign magazine review on Jerome's site? Jerome's sight is incredible...
Look what recently popped up!
Product Sheet |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by TJR:
Originally posted by TJR:
[qb]
Look what recently popped up!
Product Sheet |
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Location: Maine | Std Ov. style plastic Truss Rod Cover vs. the wooden ebony one? |
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| That's either a Slimline pickup or a bone saddle, not the OPP. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Odd placement for a strap button on an Ovation.
Just out of curiosity... I understand the FD designation, but where does the "14" come from on a '12 fret to the body' guitar??? |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | I believe it's the pimped 1614. The "16" got replaced by "FD". |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by G8r:
That's either a Slimline pickup or a bone saddle, not the OPP. Bingo! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think you're right, Meuti. It's the deluxe Folklore 1614. The 4 is the original designation for the Josh White, later Folklore. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Why of course!!!
You can tell I didn't put much thought into it before I asked.
Thanks guys. |
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Meutis FD 14 has arrived!!!