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| Hi ALL What guitar is this guy playing? Is there a 100% definitive answer? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y1v3cKZm92w&list=WL&index=24 Thanks for your help. EDIT the guitar is clearly visibile starting at 16 sec.
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A newer one because there is no Ovation "spoon" on the headstock.
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Location: northern Georgia | Yes, it is 12 fret, nylon string, flat fingerboard, and the rosette is inlaid. As OMA notes, there is no 'spoon' on the headstock, but the company name is there. |
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| I don't know what the 'spoon' is, but let me say a big thank you, guys!
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| I have just googled "spoon headstock" and found out what it is. I didn't notice that small detail, once again: thanks! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I said "spoon on the headstock"... spoon-shaped logo... like this:
Old Headstock, with a spoon-shaped "O"...
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| Thanks a lot Arthur for taking the time to give me all this information. 
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Location: Texas | Old Man Arthur - 2021-11-07 2:08 AM
I said "spoon on the headstock"... spoon-shaped logo... like this:
Old Headstock, with a spoon-shaped "O"...
And here I always thought it was a bowl-backed-guitar-shaped logo.  |
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Location: When?? | Could also be a butterfly net with a doughnut stuck in it. I've had that happen. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA | Hey, Love O Fair,
Don't you just hate it when stuff like that does? When I first saw the guitar logo in my GC songbook at at 11, I thought it said,...? would you believe...O'Harion? Which was WRONG, because, as it turned out, I needed new glasses and, also shows you how much I knew at the time. It was quite the revalation for me when I got the new glasses, and discovered a lute/guitar thingy with a big hole in the middle..O? Oh? OH! OVATION!! The rest, as they say, is history.
Mike S.,
Ottawa, ON.,
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Location: When?? | Mike... at least your ears were working.. and glad to know you finally got new glasses!
You can buy Ovation "spoon" water-slide decals online today (headstock logos), but in the olden 80's days you could order them at music stores along with other nifty O merch (anybody else remember the "Roundback" t-shirts?).. and for a few years I drove around in a Toyota Supra that had a decal on the back below the little spoiler wing. The car was white and it showed up well. I waited and waited for someone to comment on it in traffic.. but no one ever did.. lol.
PS: They still look great on coffee cups and stuff.
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA | Hey, Love O Fair,
I do know about the Ovation merch, and yes, I actually have an 80's Ovation muscle shirt hanging in my closet. (Where my muscles went, "We're not sure?!" The music store where I worked/taught in the '80's was, in fact, an OVATION dealer, and we ordered one the first 1983 Collector's Series coming into CANADA at the time. Some other guy got that guitar, because he was doing weekend gigs with the store manager back then. It's not what you know, it's who you know. I don't recall seeing any of the brands decals other than the large Ovation dealer sign in the store window. The underwhelming lack of response to your Toyota Supra's OVATION decal is definitely more living proof that Alpep was absolutely right when he said, "Ovation guitars don't get the respect they deserve."
Mike S.
Otttawa, ON.,
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Can you I.D. this Ovation?