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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | In response to requests by several members, here is my Ovation/Adamas 12 String Collection...currently, I have 7...
I have not included my other 12 strings: a Fender and a Taylor...making 9 in all...
I hope you enjoy what I feel are some of the finest 12 string guitars on the planet...
Here is the album (click on each pic to open and then click again for full view)
12 String Heaven
and here are several examples:
1968 Balladeer 12 Shiny Bowl
1977 1615-1 Pacemaker 12
1981 1158 Custom Legend 12
1983 1688-7 Adamas I 12
1987 1758-5 Elite 12
1990 1758-6p Elite 12
1975 1253-1 Deacon 12
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Location: Vernon CT | GORGEOUS!!!!! |
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Location: Michigan | mike i don't see a adamas 1598merb :eek: GWB |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Absolutely beautiful Michael
Congratulations!!
AJ |
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Location: Paris/France | Very nice collection Mike !!!
J :) |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Very nice guitars line up ... and location too ...
Congrats Mike...
R. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Nice Mike, can't wait to get my 1758 back. |
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Location: Delaware | Wow !! |
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Location: Michigan | Really nice collection. The 68 shiny bowl intrigues me. Do you have any more photos of it?
Anddddd.....Do you have a favorite? Inquiring minds want to know. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | DROOL!!!!  |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Thanks folks...since I couldn't go to the event, at least I can have a little fun w/the herd...
Patch...watch that drool...it might be corrosive...
Rich...glad you like it...I have all of my O's and A's in albums on my ning page under albums...just click the highlighted page url under my sig line below and go to albums...then click arange alphabetically to see the O's and A's in order...enjoy!
TJ...good to talk the other night...I know you're waiting but it will be worth it...remember, the 1615-1 was totaled and look at it now...also the 1758-6p got a great makeover...it's likewise like new...your's will be the same...(now hold on to it...lol)
I'll get the O and A six strings out for pic's next week...
Jerome...when I get them all done, you will be getting some LARGE jpegs for the site...
BTW, are we doing a calander this year Brad and Zilla? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | (gurgle - glah - blawl)
Sweet! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Rich wrote: Anddddd.....Do you have a favorite? Inquiring minds want to know Each one is special...the Pacemaker is the model that I used on the road for 12 years...just a solid hang in there road warrior...
The Elite 12's is the 12 I have played since 1988...I took a white one to Russia in 1994...I can still see the faces of the guards in customs...they asked me to play it for them and I did...awesome guitars...
The Adamas 12 is simply incredible...what a sound...my old -5 is currently in Switzerland and several of my former 1685 12's are enjoying good homes including a -5 at Beggin Jim's...
The Balladeer 12 has been "rode hard and put away wet"...but it sounds great and oozes mojo...one of the first...
The CL 12 is just drop dead gorgous...and it's near mint...sounds as good as it looks...
I like them all...hard to choose a favorite... |
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Location: SoCal | With only 2 12's (Adamas I and GC, rebuilt with Adirondack spruce top) I feel so, so inadequate..... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Mike,
With the exception of the greenery, I got an Easter Island flashback on that first pic. What a regal collection!!! 
Glad to see the rain let up and ya got some sunshine. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Mike,
Nice!!!! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Great collection for a TRUE 12 string player!
(no, you can't have it back) |
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Location: Cincinnati | Beautiful collection, Mike. Hopefully I can grab a 12 string by the end of the year. |
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Location: SoCal | Ok. If you had to narrow it down to one to keep forever and it could be the only one you could have, which one would it be? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | #33 1688
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Wow, good question...
I think it would have to be the Adamas I Paulie...being an owner yourself, you know why...they are simply unlike any other 12 string ever made...as good as it gets in my opinion...
Since I have never played a U681-12 like Dave has, that is what I have to go on...that said, there is a lot to be said for the other 12 fret 12's like the 1615 and the 1158...but for me, the Adamas floats my boat...
I am so glad I can have more than one...there are so many variables... |
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Location: Right now? | Oh ... my ...  |
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Location: Portland, OR | Beautiful pic, beautiful setting. |
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Location: Verona,Italy | I am impressed!I always thought that the sond of the 12 strings is the best for acoustic guitars, but I notice that in your collection you don't have a Campbell... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by cuthbert:
I notice that in your collection you don't have a Campbell... Ya don't need a GC when ya have a Pacemaker!  |
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Location: Verona,Italy | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Originally posted by cuthbert:
I notice that in your collection you don't have a Campbell... Ya don't need a GC when ya have a Pacemaker!
I'm pretty curious about these models, because it seems they're pretty different from teh balladeer/legend/custom legend breed, being a 12 strings fan I'm considering purchasing one, how different are from the "solid headstock" models? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | The 1615 Pacemaker and 1618 GC are very similar.
The PM has a Sitka spruce top and 8 pearl fret inlays. The GC is spruce with 14 pearl fret inlays. Both have the Ovation fan bracing.
All I know is my PM outperforms any GC 12er I've had. I've said it before and probably will again, it's a BOOMER! Ask Music Mike for his thoughts on the PM. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Originally posted by cuthbert:
I notice that in your collection you don't have a Campbell... As for no GC 12 in my collection, well, thats a long story...it's not for lack of trying on my part, I can tell you...
I can tell you this about a Pacemaker 12: I played one 6-7 nights per week for nearly 12 years of gigs...it never, ever let me down and always sounded great! Ovation 12 fret 12 strings are incredible... |
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Location: Verona,Italy | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Originally posted by cuthbert:
I notice that in your collection you don't have a Campbell... As for no GC 12 in my collection, well, thats a long story...it's not for lack of trying on my part, I can tell you...
I can tell you this about a Pacemaker 12: I played one 6-7 nights per week for nearly 12 years of gigs...it never, ever let me down and always sounded great! Ovation 12 fret 12 strings are incredible...
This one, the last of her honourable breed:
http://www.ovationfanclub.com/cgi-bin/ubb/non-cgi/ultimatebb.php?ub...
For the 12-12s (12 frets, 12 strings) I'm considering purchasing one, possibly a sunburst GC, but a pacemaker would also be good, the original Custom Legend is pretty difficult to procure... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I did have this one that I sold in 2001...One of the few I have had second thoughts about selling...but sell it I did...
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Location: Verona,Italy | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
I did have this one that I sold in 2001...One of the few I have had second thoughts about selling...but sell it I did...
I'm a little surprised, for instance, that Ovation sold so many Pacemakers and GCs in the 70s while the popularity of the Legends and Balladeers faded away through the years... |
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My 12 String Heaven