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Location: Denver, PA USA | Hello all,
I just got a new Martin D-18V. Now I know what you are thinking. But I absolutely love it. I had thoughts of selling my 1777LX Legend but I really appreciate it more now that I have the Martin. I am not compairing them. They are both AWESOME guitars. One not better than another. Just different. But after a week of playing only the Martin, hey it is new, when I went to my Legend yesturday I said Wow! That sounds better than I remember. The Legend doesn't play as well as the Martin, yet. Which is interestine at first. The Martin has mediums and the Legend has lights. But the Martin has custom bone nut and saddle installed and very prophesionally set up. Compairing the 2 I think the Legend could use a slightly lower nut height. I will deal with that. But I just thought I would share my experience. I had the Legend posted in the for sale section and just posted, "no longer available" because it is no longer for sale. Do I love my Martin? You bet yah. But do I love my Legend less, nope. I love it more because of the Martin. Make sense? I don't know. I am just feeling blessed for having two great guitars. And each of them helps me apprciate the other one more, because they are different, not better.
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Location: NJ | it is what we call the "ice cream theory" you like both chocolate and vanilla and they are both flavors of ice cream |
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Location: Denver, PA USA | You are right Al. I do like vanilla and chocalate. Isn't great we don't need to choose. We can have both.
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Location: Denver, PA USA | Al,
I forgot to ask. How is Mom doing? |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by williamfriggle:
Al,
I forgot to ask. How is Mom doing? one day at a time |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Thanks for sharing your experience. I happen to like both Os and Ms simultaneously, and as previously mentioned, why the need to choose when we can have them both? :)
Overall, I appreciate the O more for its sturdiness and reliability. It makes me feel at ease, knowing that I can pick up my balladeer at anytime, and provide great sound and performance without wasting time setting up and such. I can basically just plug her in, and almost always immediately have fun! And because it is an O, the sweet, bright sound never fails to impress. :)
As for my M, she too has a nice sweet sound and a boomy bass that's not too overwhelming. Unfortunately, it also requires a little bit more pampering than my O, despite the fact that two are very much alike in some ways -- composite round back for the O and laminated mahogany back and sides for the M. hmmm :confused: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | For 25 years I thought I could live with only Ovations. I would not even try another guitar. In hidn site that was pretty dumb. I've since opened by horizons and fallen in love with (and bought) some none O's. But in many ways I love my O's more than ever, but now I realize that they are not the one-stop-shopping perfect guitar. Nor is Martin. I'm blessed that I'm able to have both for each of their own particular benefits. Not vanilla and chocolate, more like Rocky Road and Heavenly Hash. Dave |
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Location: south east Michigan | BrianT is always on me about when I'm going to buy my first wood box guitar. We are 180 degrees apart on this. He has an Ovation...a Taylor...and a Martin. Now he's talking about adding a Gibson to complete the set. For me, amid the thousands of choices to be made in material things, there are two items where I find contentment, comfort, and peace. I drive a Chevy and I play an Ovation. Now I really like to play Brian's D-28 and I like the Doyle Dykes Model Taylor, but not enough to bring one home. I'll try any guitar within reach.
I won't rule out that somewhere down the road...way, way down the road...I might own a wood box guitar. But there is still one Ovation I would like before that could happen.
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Bill
Just Like you, I have a 1778-LX and a very new Martin D-28. Both great guitars in their own way. Going back to the 1778 after playing the D-28 all week was an eye opener. The 1778 is also better through the amp, less feedback. I have the factory fitted pick up system on the D28.
The 1778 is tougher on the fingers and the Martin is much easier to play for the longer time. At my last gig, I played the D 28 for three hours and if that had been on the Ovation, my fingers would have been in trouble.
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Location: Tennessee | My Martin re-opened a whole new world for me. I had forgotten what a good wooden guitar was like. That said, I did buy two more Ovations since I got the Martin so 'nuff said. But from now on I will always have a Martin or other good wood box(es) in the stable. There are just some things that sound "right" on those guitars and a tone you just can't get on an Ovation.
more like ... Heavenly Hash Fresh back from Holland, Dave? :cool: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Standingovation:
For 25 years I thought I could live with only Ovations. I would not even try another guitar. In hidn site that was pretty dumb. I've since opened by horizons and fallen in love with (and bought) some none O's. .....He now plays a canned ham.
Having my Lowden O25 has made me appreciate my Folklore Deluxe in ways I couldn't prior to the Lowden. Both are extrordinary guitars. What really blows my mind is that a new FD14 costs less than half of a new O25...
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Jeff.....after playing and comparing his FD14 to the Lowden 025
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and he claims the ladies all love him :D |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and he claims the ladies all love him :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | OK, Stephen, we get it. The guy at Guitar Center keeps asking me when I'm going to buy an all wood guitar. I told him as soon as I run out of Ovations. My wife accidentally gave me a better idea when she suggested I should consider other models. I'm sure she meant I should sell some Os, but I heard it as permission to buy some Adamases. |
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| "....but I heard it as permission to buy some Adamases."
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable understanding to me. Do it and see what happens. I need a new line myself - I don't think "it's such a bargain" is going to work a third time. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | I have also rediscovered how wonderful wood guitars are.I still play my slothead adamas from time to time but the wood boxes have that special tone...having said that here is my latest toy.Its a custom order martin 000042 or also known as a M42 slothead.It took 7 months to get this.Sorry,photos are not that good.
This pic has from left to right..Martin D42Slothead vintage burst,Yamaha APX20D,Martin M42amberburst
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by samova:
[QB]Sorry,photos are not that good.
uh...they're good enough, Sam. Niiice. |
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Location: Tennessee | Wow, nice guitars Sam. 12-fret, slot head D-42, in Sunburst no less. Bet that one is really sweet. Lotta bling, too. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Why do Sam's posts always make me feel like cold water penile strinkage. Dave |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I guess in Arizona you take cold showers for different reasons than we did as teenagers. Again, Dave comes up with a thread stopping analogy. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Dave,that is funny as hell.Where do you come up with these?
The D42slothead 12 fretter will flat out rattle the walls in the music room.It also vibrates all the tops on all my other guitars and opens them up nicely..The hardest guitar to find was the yamaha APX20D.Took me 3 years to find that one.The "D" stands for deep body and very few were made.. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Damn triple post. Embarrasing :( |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Stephen ,yes that is slightly embarrasing but not as embarrasing as "cold water penile shrinkage". |
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Location: ms | I just put my beloved 000 martin on ebay, and I'm down to my 92 collectors and an old epi, In my effort to sell down while searching for a folklore. But as luck would have it, Richard Guilowitz was doing a breedlove clinic at west mobile music over in AL saturday. After the clinic, I was setting around playing a taylor 410, when Tommy, the owner, handed me a custom order 00028 martin. This thing was a cannon compared to the full sized taylor. Now, I can't stop thinking about the 00028 and also, I'd like to see what ovation has to offer in 2006. Life is rough. |
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Location: ms | I just put my beloved 000 martin on ebay, and I'm down to my 92 collectors and an old epi, In my effort to sell down while searching for a folklore. But as luck would have it, Richard Guilowitz was doing a breedlove clinic at west mobile music over in AL saturday. After the clinic, I was setting around playing a taylor 410, when Tommy, the owner, handed me a custom order 00028 martin. This thing was a cannon compared to the full sized taylor. Now, I can't stop thinking about the 00028 and also, I'd like to see what ovation has to offer in 2006. Life is rough. |
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Location: south east Michigan | but I heard it as permission to buy some Adamases.
Is the correct plural of Adamas, Adamases or Adamii??? |
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Location: NJ | that would be Adamii |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Thanks Sam...I feel much better now! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Good Stephen, it's important that you have a realistic body image and are ok with it... |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by Standingovation:
For 25 years I thought I could live with only Ovations. I would not even try another guitar. In hidn site that was pretty dumb. I've since opened by horizons and fallen in love with (and bought) some none O's. But in many ways I love my O's more than ever, but now I realize that they are not the one-stop-shopping perfect guitar. Nor is Martin. I'm blessed that I'm able to have both for each of their own particular benefits. Not vanilla and chocolate, more like Rocky Road and Heavenly Hash. Dave Wow, Dave, your story mirrors mine, except add ten years. I played nothing but Ovations and wouldn't even consider playing anything else for over 35 years. But this year I rediscovered the glories of all wood guitars with the purchase of two beautiful Martins. In some ways, I feel like I'm rediscovering the acoustic guitar all over again. Don't hear me wrong, I love my Ovations, but there are tones and nuances that you get from an all wood box that you just can't get from most Ovations. But still, no other acoustic guitar can hold a candle to an O when it comes to visual beauty, durability, low maintenance and acoustic/electric technology. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Jeff, i feel the same way.No matter how many high end wood guitars i own i still have to have a deep bowl adamas in my collection.There is just some connection for me to Adamas guitars,the textured top,the binding,the apelettes.I could never not have one in my collection.Even if i dont play it i need to have it their to look at and admire.Yes acoustically other guitars i own sound "better" but when i reach for my adamas it gives me the sound i expect,need and want.. |
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Location: SoCal | I've said before on this board that if I won the lottery, there would be a number of all wood guitars in my collection -- Collins, Olson, Santa Cruz, Larivee, etc.
But for me, Ovations just hit that spot in my soul that feels right. If my collection has to be limited, then O's are what are going to be in it. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Jeff, I bet that self portrait is already residing in your gallery, waiting to make another appearance at the appropriate time. |
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My new Martin helped me.....