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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Sharing from the FaceBook Ovation Instruments Collectors Board:
Our Boys, doing what they do, so well....
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Nice video. |
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Location: moline,illinois | Great video,thanks for posting the link Nancy.
I heard them say they were going to try and make a 1000 guitars this year if there's 300 collectors/anniversaries any ideas what the rest will be?
Does any one know if this is all recent video,I saw 12 string adamas headstocks and it sent a tingle down my spine. |
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Location: NW Indiana | Great video. Lots of inspiration. Thanks for posting, Nancy. |
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Location: When?? | Nancy.. thank you for locating and posting this!! I read lately that this video existed and was hoping that we could eventually see it.. and thanks to YOU we have! Plus, with a screen shot capture of the Mothership exterior at 20 seconds into the video I now have an awesome new Windows wallpaper background on my computer! Very cool. Thanks again :-) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | COOL. That AV50-FD14 that Darren is inspecting at 00:24 is MINE !!! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Very nice. Gotta love those guys for keeping the brand on life support in the interim. Hey, I have one of those red signs seen at the end! |
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Location: GA USA | This makes me so happy. I've got so many great Ovation memories that the shutdown was a real downer. |
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| Thanks for posting the link Nancy.
Since I posted that CPTV featured Ovation in their special "Made in Connecticut" I've been looking on their website every other day for this video but it hadn't been posted. I even sent them a message asking when it would get posted last week which they didn't reply to but I'm glad it got posted.
Here it is on their website:
http://madeinct.cptv.org/ovation-guitars/ |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I keep thinking about the comment "1000 guitars this tear ..." MAN that's a lot of guitars. I should learn from past experience to not underestimate what these guys can do but that's 4 guitars a day, every working day of the year. Gulp. In terms of progress, that would mean they are well done with all the Anniversary guitars and are now busy with what ever other models will fill out the balance for the year.
I think I'd rather not see them burdened by a quota like this and just concentrate on building as many top quality guitars as they reasonably can. Quality on the ones I have received is very good. If that means 100 or 200 guitars, or 500 or whatever so be it. Don't want to kill a good thing befiore it has a chance to blossom. |
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Location: Canada | Standingovation - 2016-06-06 12:33 PM In terms of progress, that would mean they are well done with all the Anniversary guitars and are now busy with what ever other models will fill out the balance for the year. So I am curious about what other models there are? We just got the launch of the website, but aside from the anniversary models I did not notice an Ovation USA section ... I think that even the signature models (KK and ME) are made in Korea now. Maybe the summer NAMM will see a launch of those, I hope. Though I have not ordered one I think that the anniversary models are a great series, and it would be nice to see them (maybe without the phoenix and anniversary label and at a lower price) converted into a regular US production line.
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | Nice vid. Those instruments look and sound great! Can't wait for mine..
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What is he doing here?
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Location: Texas | http://www.ovationfanclub.com/megabbs/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=47056&start=26 
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Location: When?? | 1,000 guitars a year for 10 guys is a work unto itself.. but the money end of it can only be coming from the offshore production since the bottom line numbers for the 1,000 USA's would not be enough to even keep the lights on, the winter heat flowing, the salaries, the taxes and the maintenance in a big old plant like that; hence, I am starting to lose my hellbent allegiance to USA-built-only Ovations in favor of buying a new offshore-built one simply in order to take my part in keeping the company's books in the black. I have been a businessman for my entire career and from that perspective I see the overall DW paradigm these days as nothing short of a small army of risk-taking heroes on the guitar side of their company.. and I am proud of every one of them! |
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Location: Jet City | Love O Fair - 2016-06-06 5:04 PM big old plant like that You are correct, 1000 wouldn't pay for much, but fortunately they've downsized the 'old plant' too. It's now in a smaller building next to the old brick plant (see pic below). The rest of the facility has been repurposed... A Bar & Grill (adorned with several Ovations in displays), artist studios, and several small businesses. 
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Location: When?? | Damon.. I have looked at it from Google Earth and wondered exactly how the orientation of the buildings works out.. and now I know. I really do need to go there and check out the things you mentioned on their campus. It all sounds very interesting.. so thank you for the update on that and the nice photo explanation as well.
You will never find anyone who bitches and complains more than I do about things like NAFTA and Pacific rim fair trade agreements (which aren't always necessarily that "fair" to us here in the USA), but if DW makes a dime profit from an offshore-built and a nickle profit from a USA-built, for now I will bend my preferences for family and want for them to have the dime since it's that dime that will keep the doors open in Connecticut... and that's what I hope customers will understand when they per-chance contemplate purchasing an offshore-built Ovation over a USA-built (at least for today). I hope this makes sense to the reader and cents for the company.. and that one day the profit table turns the other way.
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | jay - 2016-06-06 6:27 PM
http://www.ovationfanclub.com/megabbs/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=47056&start=26
Thanks to 'Dr Dan, the Guitar Building Man', I knew immediately what they were doing!!! 
Very, Very Cool!!! |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Love O Fair - 2016-06-06 7:59 PM
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You will never find anyone who bitches and complains more than I do about things like NAFTA and Pacific rim fair trade agreements (which aren't always necessarily that "fair" to us here in the USA), but if DW makes a dime profit from an offshore-built and a nickle profit from a USA-built, for now I will bend my preferences for family and want for them to have the dime since it's that dime that will keep the doors open in Connecticut... and that's what I hope customers will understand when they per-chance contemplate purchasing an offshore-built Ovation over a USA-built (at least for today). I hope this makes sense to the reader and cents for the company.. and that one day the profit table turns the other way.
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Made in Connecticut!!