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Location: Bangkok, Thailand | Comparing to you all, I don't dare to call myself a collector since I only own "-10".
However, the quantity can't measure how we love the round back guitar, right?
So I decide to share my guitars here.
-10 = (-5) + (-5)
:rolleyes: just kidding about the number
They are Adamas 1587-5 and 1581-5 :)
The Black Beauty !
Adamas is beautiful and wonderful guitar.
I'm glad to own some.
check out my pics here
v74\'s Adamas |
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Location: Australia | Wow !
....you are one great photographer !
....makes me want to go and buy that 1581-5 RI I saw recently |
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Location: south east Michigan | Great guitars & great camera work!
I hope you will submit some pictures when calendar time comes around. |
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand | thanks for the comments :)
Glad that u like my pictures.
If u think that my pictures can be use for calendar, I'm more than happy to submit some. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Beautiful photos.
Question for the experts: The model 1587 cutaway adamas I seems to be the same model number for the single epaulet version and the double epaulet version. Is this correct? If so, were they ever available at the same time (same years) or was single epaulet on certain years and double was other years.
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Location: France | I have never seen an Adamas I 1587 with single epaulet only Adamas II but I'm not an expert.
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand | Here is the Adamas I Single Epaulet
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | GREAT SHOTS! |
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand | Thanks Dave and Stephent28 for your comments.
I would love to know the answer of Dave's question too.
What i know is they, adamas I single and both epaulet, share the same model number, which is 1587.
But I have no idea about the year of build. |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | Ovation should hire you to photo-shoot their catalogs...WOW..
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| Beautiful! Those Adamas 1 & 2's are the best stage guitars money can buy! They sound great, comparable with any of the high end traditional guitars, they play great and they look like nothing anyone has ever seen. This is what Stage presence is all about, You need to sound good you need to be able to function easily to pull off those hard songs and you need to have a look of some type.
These Adamas's fill the bill nicely.
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Location: Thailand | Great guitars & great job! v74
Somewhere in Thailand. |
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Location: Paris/France | Great guitars V74!!!
And your pics are wonderful.
If I'm right, Adamas cutaway with double epaulet were not available before 1994.
I don't know if both single and double epaulet were available at the same time??
J :) |
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand | Thanks for all comments :)
I love Adamas Cutaway. |
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand | Thanks Jerome for this link
http://www.ovationtribute.com/Autres%20Collections/v74_adamas_Colle... |
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Location: East Tennessee | Beautiful guitars. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Great stuff v74, you really know how to drive us crazy!!! phil |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | That 1587-5 is gorgeous but I don't see it on the Adamas site. Have they stopped making that one? Who else here has one? Will somebody be bringing one of those to the Tour? Can someone puh-leeze stop the gas??? |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Weaser P:
Can someone puh-leeze stop the gas??? No. We want to see you explode.
If you could wait till you're on stage, that would be :cool: . I get first dibs on your 1537.. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Teammates always come first. |
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Location: closely held secret | That's the spirit, Weas.
I'll try to arrange for someone to stand up at the end of our set holding #47, look right at you and shout, "Fiddybucks?"
(Jeff & Schroed - make sure you take cover...) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Mister Creosote, I presume?
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Location: NJ | that's 'im . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | He shouldn't have had that "wahffer-theen meent". |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Ok, so a little research says that they stopped making the 1587 in '97. Do these come up every once in a while or are they a pretty rare bird? I can't say I've ever seen one. |
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Location: SoCal | The original Adamas, both I & II with the single epaulet on the bass side, were done originally because people wanted cutaways, and Ovation wasn't certain about how to do the treble epaulets with cutaways. This would have been about 1983-84 (it's a 2 knobber). Some were built with the single epaulet, then later with the epaulets on both sides.
An unintended benefit was that the bass was much stronger with no soundholes on the treble side. Why they didn't keep making them that way is beyond me. Maybe it was felt that there was too much bass response.....
I'm not a fan of black guitars, but the one in this thread is beautiful.... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I think that's one of the reasons it's got me going, Paul. The last one I played with just the bass epaulets was a bit bass heavy (for my ears) and I think the treble sided epaulets would have almost had to give it a better balanced sound. Together with the deep bowl, I'll bet that's a great sounding instrument. And I'm not into black all that much either but I do like that one. |
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Location: closely held secret | Weas, if you played my 1581 last year you know what they sound like. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Your 1581 has just the bass side epie's, right? That's what I'm recalling anyway... |
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Location: closely held secret | Nope, mine has both. It has plenty of bass, though.
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Well, that does answer my question then. I do remember the big bass out of yours but thought you just had the bass side epi's, not both.
As I was... ;) |
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Location: closely held secret | I don't think the single-side epi's give you more bass, I think they just give you less treble, making the bass seem more pronounced. Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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| Just some of the many weird and wonderful guitars they made in their search for the ute. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
I don't think the single-side epi's give you more bass, I think they just give you less treble, making the bass seem more pronounced. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Please don't get me wrong, Waskel. At last year's Tour, I played a number of guitars that I wanted to run out the back door with and yours was one of the first. And, if there was any doubt what sound was possible (with a little talent behind it, of course), your cd puts that to rest. No disrespect intended and, should a 47RI be presented in front of me for "fiddybux" and cause me to implode, you are still first in line (with JW and Schroeder, of course) to take what's left of my sparkly 1537 (and I say that because I intend on taking everything I can with me ;) ). |
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