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Location: Bradenton, FL | Hello all, This is my first post. I've only been playing for about a year. I have an Ibanez AE18 acoustic/electric and just today I picked up a used Ovation Celebrity CC11 acoustic. I've always liked Ovations and couldn't pass up the deal. The original owner bought the guitar several years ago with the intentions of learning to play. He used it a handful of times and it has sat in its hard case ever since. It still has the oringinal strings on it (which I will change tomorrow).
I do have a question though. According to Ovation and this site, my CC11 was discontinued in 1995. Yet according to Ovations website, my guitar was made in 1997. Can anyone shed some light for me?? Serial# 521953.
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Location: CA | The Ovation website is notoriously unreliable and they don't seem in any hurry to change. So trust what you read here, or you can actually query Ovation themselves. Several people who post here actually worked for Ovation.
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Welcome Sport .. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | G'day Sport and welcome.
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | First of all, welcome to the Ovation Hive Mind!
Now, just sit back and let us help ya spend your future dollar$. "You just stepped on the 'slippery slope'"... :D
WHOA! Bradenton? Gotta change my approach here... west Bradenton off 59th St. W. here!
Email me at 2ifbyC@tampabay.rr.com or call me at 941.794.6448. You're the third known OFC member in town, with at least two more on the Sunshine Coast. Seriously, give a call... |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | G'day from downunder Sport. You'll learn a lot here. |
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Location: Texas | Welcome sportrider24. I can't answer your question, but someone here may know. In the meantime, play it and enjoy it. Check in here often and soon it will not be your only Ovation. ;)
Just say the word and the OFC members will be happy to offer advice and help you spend your money on your next one, or two or…… ;) |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | And to continue the these, another G'day & welcome from the land downunder. |
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Location: Bradenton, FL | Thanks for the warm welcome everybody.
2ifbyc, I live in East Bradenton (SR64 & Lakewood Ranch Blvd). That's really cool that a couple members are so local to me. No worries if noone has the answer to my questions. The guitar might as well be brand new anyway. Can't wait to pick up new strings today!!! As you can imagine, several year old strings are not sounding very good. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Welcome Sport!! Congrats on the "O"!!
Your are a lucky guy having "Iffy" right there to help nuture and guide you through your soon to
be afliction of O GAS!! He'll show you how to spend your money!! :D ;) |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Welcome Sportrider.
The S/N decoder on the Ovation website only applies to USA made Ovations. Since your CC11 was made overseas it is not relevant to your guitar.
BTW... I sold a CC11 a couple of years ago that was an absolute CANNON! Enjoy it. |
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Location: Michigan | Welcome to the board! Enjoy the new Ovation. |
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Location: closely held secret | Welcome, Sportrider! I'll assume you ride sport bikes - you'll find a few other riders here, though some of us ride what you might regard as sofas.
Colin is correct concerning the offshore serial#. And while the Ovation website is often missing models or might have the wrong picture, the serial number system is not "notoriously unreliable" - they simply do not keep track of guitars they don't build in CT.
Love the rosette on the Ibanez. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by sportrider24:
Thanks for the warm welcome everybody.
2ifbyc, I live in East Bradenton (SR64 & Lakewood Ranch Blvd). That's really cool that a couple members are so local to me. No worries if noone has the answer to my questions. The guitar might as well be brand new anyway. Can't wait to pick up new strings today!!! As you can imagine, several year old strings are not sounding very good. Hey Sport, I live a couple of miles from you. Iffy is maybe 10 miles away. Welcome aboard. |
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Location: Bradenton, FL | I used to ride. I've just kept the display name because I use it on other forums. I rode a 1998 GSXR 600 for years but after my son was born i decided to give it up. I really didn't want to but I've had way too many close calls with driver that are oblivious to their surroundings. IMO, Florida has to be the most rider unfriendly state. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Uh oh...another Bradenton player. Has to be something in the water down there.
Welcome 'board, SR. |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | Welcome, Sports! May we meet soon.
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | Welcome to the 'O' asylum, where the inmate rule and roam freely about the halls.
Nice O, play her long and loud. |
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Location: Bradenton, FL | Originally posted by darkbarguitar:
Originally posted by sportrider24:
Thanks for the warm welcome everybody.
2ifbyc, I live in East Bradenton (SR64 & Lakewood Ranch Blvd). That's really cool that a couple members are so local to me. No worries if noone has the answer to my questions. The guitar might as well be brand new anyway. Can't wait to pick up new strings today!!! As you can imagine, several year old strings are not sounding very good. Hey Sport, I live a couple of miles from you. Iffy is maybe 10 miles away. Welcome aboard. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Welcome SR. So, what model do you ride? There's a few other riders on the boards. |
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Location: Bradenton, FL | It was a '98 GSX-R 600 SRAD. I also had a '02 SV650S. Miss my bikes but I think I'm gonna buy some dirtbikes when my son is old enough. |
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Location: VENISE-EN-QUEBEC CANADA | bonjour sportrider24
et bienvenue cher OFC you will like it here
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by sportrider24:
I used to ride. I've just kept the display name because I use it on other forums. I rode a 1998 GSXR 600 for years but after my son was born i decided to give it up. I really didn't want to but I've had way too many close calls with driver that are oblivious to their surroundings. IMO, Florida has to be the most rider unfriendly state. I think a lot of us quit when we had kids, then got back on when they grew up. I quit for 30 years, then started again 4 years ago.
Try riding in the Nanny State of Oregon sometime... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Bradenton, FL | I love Oragan. I went to Redmond or Redmen once with work. Beautiful over there!! |
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Location: closely held secret | Yes, Oregon is beautiful, and has some fantastic roads to ride. |
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Location: Bradenton, FL | Oops. I'm a horrible speller. |
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Location: big island | aloha and welcome, sportrider! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Welcome Sport. Not only do you have enough members in your town to form your own chapter.....I think you're about to get an invite to an International Meet. Special.
(May as well send the Virgin Llama to that meet and get the ceremony over with.) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by sportrider24:
I think I'm gonna buy some dirtbikes when my son is old enough. Excellent idea. I did, and it not only provided a great opportunity for us to do someting together that he really loved (as did I), it taught him skills that better prepared him for the streets. Start small and work your way up. I'd sell his, give him mine, then I'd buy something bigger. It was a win-win. |
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Location: Bradenton, FL | OK, so I've now spent a couple of days with my CC11 and really had a chance to go over her with a fine tooth comb, clean and condition the fret board and threw a set of Elixer Nanoweb Mediums (.13-.56) and played her for a good long time. One thing I noticed is that if I really strum hard, I'm better of using very thin picks as my heavier pics create a lot of buzz. It doesn't buzz at all if I play lightly with heavey picks. There are just some songs that I really dig into the guitar on (like Jack Johnson's upside down for example). I have smaller hands and the neck is thinner than my Ibanez AE18 which I really like!! However I would have to say that my Ibanez is still my number 1. I am happy with her though. I'd like to somehow have her be a little more twangy though. Kind of like the sound you get when you strum closer to the bridge. |
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