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Location: Kilmarnock,Scotland | hello all,new here and from other side of the pond.Long time Ovation player I once stupidly and in a moment of poverty let go a Legend 1117,replaced it with a Balladeer some time on and now have just won this beauty.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7350954672&rd=...
I read posts here on the LX guitars and it made me try one out at a city store.I loved it but couldn't afford the price of them new over here in the UK.I was gobsmacked when no one else bothered with the auction so I got her for less than both new Elite and Balladeer Specials go for on UK Ebay.
The fit and finish is top notch and in all truth I am probably playing better these last 3 days-its just so inspiring!Even my mate who hates my Balladeer and avoids Ovations in general thinks the Elite LX is unputdownable.
My singer loves it too - she says it's the coolest acoustic she ever saw and sits in the mix perfect every song.And as she's half the band her opinion matters.
I start gigging the Elite this weekend and I can't wait :)
Anyhow I first read about the LX models here so a big thank you.
Komp out |
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Location: south east Michigan | Welcome to the OFC!
You will learn a lot about Ovations here.
VERY nice guitar! |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Welcome to the forum.
Very nice guitar, someday I may own one...hopefully. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Welcome and enjoy your new guitar. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Welcome to the club. Congrats on your great buy and may it serve you well in making great music and converting the heathen. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Hey congrats on the very nice guitar and Welcome to the club! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Way to go!
Enjoy and drop in from time to time. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Wow!! Nice Guitar, Great Deal on Hal's "Doppelganger" (both 1778LX-5's). Beautuful Guitars!! |
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| Another person of the Scottish persuasion. I'm warning you - they'll end up running the place, they always do.
Welcome my little besporranned one. Really nice guitar - CWK2 will bring you an even nicer one if you can fix him up with a few rounds of golf at that little course just up the coast there. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | BTW - If you find that your Ovation slips on your kilt:
www.utilikilt.com
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Location: NW NJ | Komp:
Beautiful axe. I have an 1868LX-5 just like it only less round to make up for my more round! Also have a 6778LX-NEB that is just gorgeous to look at and play as well. You will love your Elite even more (I know, hard to imagine) as it breaks in a little and opens up even more. God Bless! |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by MWoody:
BTW - If you find that your Ovation slips on your kilt:
www.utilikilt.com
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Location: Kilmarnock,Scotland | thanks all.
must admit I get dead envious when I see the prices paid for O's stateside.One day I'll holiday there and bring home a Custom Legend be sure!
btw that utilikilt is just too funny :D
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Location: East Tennessee | Welcome to the Club. :) Nice Ovation. :cool:
I can't wait to see what some of the others will do with the photo's on the link MWoody posted. :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | It is manly to air your differences! |
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Location: Orange County, California | Waskel,
Utilikilts is in SEATTLE.... I own one (more soon), and worked their booth at the Highland Games in Ventura last weekend.
Real Men Wear Kilts (Scott or Not). |
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Location: Tampa, FL | So...I'm looking at the website, trying to figure out if this is legit or not. On the one hand you have a professionally laid out site with lots of apparent retail support on the other you have product descriptions describing how your pockets shouldn't interfere with you package and for those of us with fronts to match our guitar backs, the "Beer Gut Cut"
So after investigating I'm certain that I'm not sure if this is for real. The tiebreaker would've been if they had string tubes in their inventory but lacking that, I'm afraid this just might be a fake site...
Caveat Emptor
(for the lexically challenged among us, emptor is the latin root for empty . A condition often applied to the wallets of those that don't caveat enough) |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | I just read this whold thread and am still wondering what gobsmacked means. Don't we speak English here? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Re:
X marks the Scot,
Utilikilts, Neokilts, Amerikilts, Pitsburgh Kilts and USA Kilts are all for real.
Look them up! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | They just opened this bar/restaurant down the road from me called "The Tilted Kilt". Maybe it's a chain, I don't know. If it is, and any of you have been there you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Wink-wink. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I was going to get a utilikilt, but my climbing harness won't fit over it properly....
and if i were to wear it underneath....well, let's just say the view from below might scare some... |
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Location: Orange County, California | Wow! We totally highjacked this thread...
Gusetted crotch short/pants like Gramiccis or biking shorts are the only thing I can wear under a harness for flexibility and safety. It would surely suck to have your line fouled by your kilt, or worse... UK does offer their "modesty system" on the survival model. and snaps on the Workman's model for those burely construction guys who wear them up ladders. there's even a pretty funny video. Kilt Comercial |
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Location: closely held secret | You're right, Fred, Seattle. I was looking at the notice for buyers from San Francisco Pride to call them. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | gob is your mouth
smacked is hit.
gobsmacked is standing there with that dumb look on your face and your gob hanging open, speachless. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Thanks cwk2 now I can use it. |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Komp
Wow -what a price for a 1778-LX. I had one of the very first guitars (1778-LX-BCB) in the UK and paid £1400. No one had heard of it - now they have.
It's a stonking guitar and I have recently tried Takamines and Taylors , but I prefer the LX.
However, a Martin D-28 is in sight for its sound and the fact that I hate playing the LX standing up due to body pretrusions.
I have taken out all the shims and had it set up by a professional and boy was it worth it.
Have fun
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | Kilts on stage in South Texas...Hmmmm
Very cool guitar, Kompressaur!
I take it you own a Mercedes??
Cc |
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Hi all,new guitar brought me here.