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Location: Caribou, ME | There's a 7x12 room in the basement that was used as a pantry.. I guess. Old crude shelving, bits and pieces of linoleum tacked onto the shelves... pretty rough looking. I'm in the process of gutting it and putting hangers up. There's 14 right now, I have 6 more, and am awaiting shipment of 25 more. Obviously I won't be able to put them all in the room but I will squeeze in as many as I can. There's 30 or 31 Applauses here, I dunno.
We did the ceiling yesterday with 3/8 sheetrock. I also bought some 1/2" for another project. I wish I had known this, but the 1/2" is what's called 'ultralight', and IS noticeably lighter, and it was a buck a sheet cheaper! Live and learn.
I wish I could find some dealer promo stuff for Applauses to put on the wall but I'm not even sure they ever HAD any.
I do have the "O" banner but that's kinda misplaced in this room.
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | Is this a doomsday prepper thing for when angry hordes run amuck stealing inexpensive roundback guitars? |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Yes, that's exactly what it is. Thanks for your input.
I love the comraderie here. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Great man cave. Do you have power into the room? Ideally, you will find a neon Applause sign, if not for the actual product, then something they may have used in a old television studio to direct the audience to clap. If impossible to find, then you could always have one made to match the logo. I'll keep my eyes open for you. I have a little experience in this area. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | KS, the question's GOT to be asked....
Why? |
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Location: Flahdaw | muzza - 2012-12-02 9:42 AM
KS, the question's GOT to be asked....
Why?
Hey...the man knows what he likes. More power to KS. |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Well Muzza it says right on the home page "Ovation guitars don't get the respect they deserve". Everything is relative. Applauses get even less respect. I happen to feel otherwise. I have several Gibsons, a Martin, all that. Its not like I don't appreciate a "good" guitar in the normal sense. I just also know these Applauses are good sounding and fun utility instruments.
I know most everyone will never share my enthusiasm so I'm able to get them cheap. I also know their weak points and know how to save them while most people would toss them in the dumpster because their "luthier" can't (won't) repair them.
Why keep buying them with no end in sight? I don't have a good answer. Some people collect beanie babies. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | You go, Dad!
You don't have to explain this to anybody. They're your endorphin makers. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | The way you're going, you're going to need to dig a deeper bunker to hold the ones you haven't found yet.  |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Nice Room!
I have only experienced one Applause guitar...
It at a "meeting", a street musician had one... Aluminum Neck.
USA Made. No sticker inside, but it had that headstock with the weird ball on it.
(not the Ovation duck-bill)
It sounded good and he played it on the street and took it on freight trains without a case.
And it took a lickin' and kept-on-tickin'.
Here is a USA Applause for sale for a Thousand Bucks
Remember, the value of those will only go Up.
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Location: Caribou, ME | They can't go much lower!
I'm hoping to bend Beal's ear about them someday. Alison's been a big help too. |
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Location: Utah | arthurseery - 2012-12-02 3:10 PM
Nice Room!
I have only experienced one Applause guitar...
It at a "meeting", a street musician had one... Aluminum Neck.
USA Made. No sticker inside, but it had that headstock with the weird ball on it.
(not the Ovation duck-bill )
It sounded good and he played it on the street and took it on freight trains without a case.
And it took a lickin' and kept-on-tickin'.
Here is a USA Applause for sale for a Thousand Bucks
Remember, the value of those will only go Up.
The Applause is a wood top not plastic, right? I've been looking for an Academy for taking outdoors when conditions are less than optimal. |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Very late in the US Applause run there was a model known as the AA-12. It had a 14 fret neck with a rosette (only; no pickguard) and a plastic Academy top. I haven't found any info on them and in fact didn't know they even existed until I bought one and examined it when UPS came. I opened one up and it was dated 1983. They are phenomenal. That plastic top sounds like thunder. I have two here now and another one en route. I can only guess they were a last ditch "let's use up these parts" guitar just prior to them shifting to Korea. Just a guess on my part though.
Alison did say the rosette/guard assemblies did break occasionally and they may have been salvaged by trimming the guard off. Another funky note, all AA-12 necks are black, not simulated wood grain.
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Location: Utah | ksdaddy let me know if you either want to get rid of one of the plastic top AA-12 or find one for sale which you aren't going to buy. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I think if you're going to have an Applause room, you have to set a motion sensor to applaud when anyone walks in. |
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Location: NH | boltonb - 2012-12-02 9:25 AM
Ideally, you will find a neon Applause sign, if not for the actual product, then something they may have used in a old television studio to direct the audience to clap.
+1.
Or something like one of those old "On The Air" signs. Someone skillful like you could even modify an old lighted "Exit" sign.
Edited by Guitsome 2012-12-03 6:47 AM
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | Something like this might do ...
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