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Location: big island | a few weeks ago the wife and i purchased a "little martin" for my 23 year old stepson who has taken an interest in guitar. this is what he came home with today:
1989 ovation 1758-6
he did some manual labor for the guy who owned this wonderful guitar and this is how he was paid. it plays superbly and has no issues. the pearlized top's patina is very nice and makes it look like gold. |
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Location: Texas | Just a few weeks from starting out on the guitar and he's already gotten a beautiful 12 string Ovation? It took me 30 years… ;)
He has good taste, that's a beauty. Have you explained to him that you need to play it for a few weeks to be sure that it is properly "broken in" for him? ;) |
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Location: Long Island | Very nice and resourceful Congratulations !!
and the best of luck with his new 1778-6 . |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Awesome! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Gorgeous Guitar!! Now he has to Join the OFC! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Nice Randy, if he wants to part with it, let me know first. ;) |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Nice Randy, if he wants to part with it, let me know first. ;) You guitar whore!! ;) |
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Location: ms | Hes not a "whore" hes just easy. |
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Location: Delaware | Nice Randy, like father like (step)son. Wish him the best of luck with that beautiful guitar for me. He'll have a great teacher in you ! Later, Dave |
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by BT717:
Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Nice Randy, if he wants to part with it, let me know first. ;) You guitar whore!! ;) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Now that's one nice looking guitar. Really like the non-gaudy eppis... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I prefer guitar homo, thanks.
We are at Lion Country Safari today, and I thought of Cliff when we drove past the llamas. |
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Location: Michigan | 23 years old and still living at home?
kick him out and keep the guitar. :D GWB :D |
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Location: big island | i've got a 21 year old stepson and the 23 year old both living with us now. no jobs. no unemployment. and someone stole the younger one's car two nights ago. police can't find it.
my wife and i are both in college, two daughters in preschool and now that there are no gigs we are living on my wife's income.
but we're happy! |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | How can they not find a stolen car on an island?!
Very nice guitar. I must say that your stepson obviously has good taste. I've never seen that model before. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by bvince:
How can they not find a stolen car on an island? Became an artificial reef? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Yep, it looks framilar...
Congrats, Enjoy! |
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Location: big island | amazing how much this one has patinaed, mike. in person, it appears as yellow/gold as in the photo. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | If they're left out in light, they do that Randy, just like the white Les Paul Customs and Sg's do...also remember that this is a -6p with pearl in the paint...that along with the yellowing of the white gives you the gold...very nice...what a way to get paid...how does he like it?
Bvince wrote: Very nice guitar. I must say that your stepson obviously has good taste. I've never seen that model before. Here:  |
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Location: big island | he's a bit overwhelmed with it. he is just beginning to learn to play. after listening to me play my 1688 for the past few years, he got all excited when this 1758 became available. it plays as nicely as my 1688, just not as loud and bass warm. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | "How can the police not find a stolen car on an island?"
Being a retired cop I can tell you, same way we can't find one in the continental US. :eek:
Anita
But don't get me started on these young cops today, don't know the laws fron their &^% |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | I'm drooling people. Does the club sell a fan club bib?
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by ladylaw:
"How can the police not find a stolen car on an island?"
Being a retired cop I can tell you, same way we can't find one in the continental US. :eek:
Anita
But don't get me started on these young cops today, don't know the laws fron their &^% I'll bet they can find a doughnut shop :D |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Originally posted by ladylaw:
"How can the police not find a stolen car on an island?"
Being a retired cop I can tell you, same way we can't find one in the continental US. :eek:
Anita
But don't get me started on these young cops today, don't know the laws fron their &^% I'll bet they can find a doughnut shop :D
Donut Shop
Lanaki's son's stolen car
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I was talking to a cop on Norfolk Island (pop. 1800) and asked him how they do car chases on the twisty narrow roads. He said "We don't. Where are they going to go?". He then related how they solved a ram raid at the alcohol store. Yellow paint was found on the edge of the shop. They went to a young local and asked to see his yellow car. He said "How do you know it's mine?". They said "They only other yellow car on the Island belongs to a church minister". |
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Location: big island | my stepson's car is a 1993 honda accord. hondas are the #1 stolen vehicle in hawaii. i posted the theft in our local craiglist a couple days ago. someone replied that they know of a chop shop up in Mountain View, near Volcano, where the stolen cars are dismantled within a couple hours and parted out.
seems the cops could locate the chop shop, at least. the responder did not know the exact location.
since my stepson was laid off, he had allowed his insurance, registration and safety check to expire and was risking driving around illegally anyway. so he has no recourse. just a lesson hard learned. |
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Location: big island | hmmmm...perhaps the cops are the ones running this ring? |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by lanaki:
my stepson's car is a 1993 honda accord. hondas are the #1 stolen vehicle in hawaii. i posted the theft in our local craiglist a couple days ago. someone replied that they know of a chop shop up in Mountain View, near Volcano, where the stolen cars are dismantled within a couple hours and parted out.
seems the cops could locate the chop shop, at least. the responder did not know the exact location.
since my stepson was laid off, he had allowed his insurance, registration and safety check to expire and was risking driving around illegally anyway. so he has no recourse. just a lesson hard learned. If this is the case, lanaki, that car was way gone by the time you reported it. Sorry. There are some good cops out there......really.
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by lanaki:
hmmmm...perhaps the cops are the ones running this ring? That could be a real possiblity, unfortunately. Or they know and just turn their heads and take a cut.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | As a former Deputy Sheriff, let me say that many of you would not belive what goes on...not with all, but way too many... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | That's one job I wouldn't want. I'm sure that most, if not nearly all, law enforcement are AOK+. But I did have a run in with one crooked cop. At least he got 'caught' and is now serving time in the state pen... |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
That's one job I wouldn't want. I'm sure that most, if not nearly all, law enforcement are AOK+. But I did have a run in with one crooked cop. At least he got 'caught' and is now serving time in the state pen... Good! I hate crooked cops, gives us all a bad name.
Anita
I'm a retired cop from a rather large MD agency
and I've seen too much I'd rather be here, much more pleasant.
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by BT717:
Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Nice Randy, if he wants to part with it, let me know first. ;) You guitar whore!! ;) |
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Location: big island | update on the stolen car:
got a call at 7am on tuesday. caller ID reads "Police Dept." man asks for jared, my step-son, who is fast asleep. i couldn't help but wonder what sort of foolishness he got involved in as i woke him telling him the cops wanted to talk to him. definitely not a pleasant awakening and he certainly looked as if he was experiencing a bad dream. cop tells him they need him to come down to the station and identify his car. we go down there and initially don't think it's his. new paint job, nice chrome wheels and newer tires. cop says the VIN matches the stolen one we reported. cop opens the car and we recognize the interior by its characteristics. however, it is now trashy inside and full of apparently stolen electronic merchandise, bags of cocaine and crack rocks, pills and marijuana. coins everywhere as well as baby carseats, kids DVDs, and cigarette butts. cops take out everything jared says is not his and we bring the car home. muffler had been repaired, new brakes all around. i told jared, "see, God heard your prayers to get your car back and He saw to it that all those things needing fixed got done too!".
we cleaned it up and found more drugs the cops didn't collect. my shop-vac contained alot of interesting paraphernalia that got vacuumed up.
the car looks great! seems the driver ran a red light early tuesday morning and then sped away from the cop that attempted to pull him over. he is now in custody with several charges pending. jared says he has a "marked" car now and wants to get rid of it soon. his older brother, who lives on another island, will probably buy it. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Congrats, Randy. I didn't read this thread before, because I was in Germany. Joking aside, car thieves steal popular cars because they are tough for the cops to spot. When I was in Hawaii years ago, everyone drove a red Nissan, because that was one of the most popular rental cars.
Your stepson's was probably painted right away to make the description useless. |
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Location: Tennessee | Need my address Randy? I'll get rid of the "remnants" for you. :cool: |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I am glad that things worked out fer ya .. and I understand yer stepson , I would want to sell the car too , ... Walk Tall ! ;)
Vic
.. and Congrats to yer stepson with that git. , beautyful , simply .. |
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Location: big island | stonebobbo, you are plagued with the "CDAARA" syndrome. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Okay... I'll Bite. What is CDAARA? |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Okay... I'll Bite. What is CDAARA? check stonebobbo's tag line.
and that was quite creative nevertheless, alison! :D |
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Location: big island | iffy, the thread started out about the ovation 12'er my stepson got. there's a pic of it at the top of the thread ;) |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | bobbo's got it 'covered'... :p |
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Location: Delaware | Randy, sorry to hear about the car. Nice 12 string, I see the stepson is a chip off the old lava rock !!
Keep Being Happy,
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Honda Civics from the 1990's are regularly stolen in New York. The kids fix them up. They pretend their in Too fast, too furious. Go figure. I have a civic from that era, and I've kids admiring it like it's porche! It's weird but fun. |
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stepson stepped up...