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Location: chicago | Went to Sam Ash this weekend and they had two 1769 AD11 and the natural finish one was inside the glass case,well after playing it for 1 1/2 hours I went home to see if the rest of the family needed this guitar as much as i did,after some persuading I got the wife to go the next day....but the AD11 WAS GONE!The wife bought it earlier and took it to my moms house to surprise me.All that, married 23yrs no birthday just a simple you deserve it. God I love this woman! |
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Location: SoCal | That is a great story! I shared it with my wife, not hinting, but because it's the kind of thing that she would do (she needed to know that she wasn't alone out here). The ADII is a terrific guitar! I played Slipkid's and just thought it was the cat's ass. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Great story.
What a cool surprise.
My wife almost insisted that I buy the AD-II.
I love the natural finish on that guitar. It has the type of grain that you do not want to hide. |
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Location: closely held secret | Nice thought, Paul.
I thought you were smart enough tell a guitar from a cat's ass. |
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Location: NJ | You've obviously never seen Paul's cat . . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Must be one fancy cat. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Just imagine the abolone. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I've played Brad's ADII, as well as another one, and I do agree that it is one great guitar. Congratulations, Jeff.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was feeling envy until I remembered that my wife was the same way about all 3 Porsches I have owned. She just doesn't feel the same about guitars, although she bought me my first O back in 77, which I still have. |
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Location: Germantown, MD | I've got my own nominee.
For a while, I've wanted a 12-string, and Guitar Center (Yeah, I know) had a sale going yesterday--one of those where you don't know what's on sale until you get to the store. I mentioned that I'd like to see what they had, and she didn't even bat an eye before saying "Okay. Let's go." This really is a big deal: I had a knee replacement in July, and it got infected, so I've been needing a lot from her since July 26, and going out isn't easy for me. Anyhow, we got there, and the kid helping us (who actually did know Ovations) brought out a 6751. I played it a bit and liked it, but it had no sale tag on it. We sent the kid to ask what kind of a deal they could offer, and while he was out, she said, "It looks like a good price to start with. When he comes back, be sure you tell him you have to have a case for it." So the 6751 came home with us.
And this is the same woman who, on Presidents Day 1979, walked a three miles round trip the morning after a blizzard to be with me when I bought my 1117-4--and she was five months pregnant at the time.
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Location: Montreal Canada | What do you guys do to your women?
-Electric shock therapy?
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Nothing comes without a price tag, at least in the marriage department. Two nominees for the coolest wife ever is not a representative sample. Most of us are probably lucky to have someone who would put up with us. Or at least that is my situation for the last 28 years. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Re: "What do you guys do to your women?"
Eph. 5:28 |
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Location: Tennessee | What do you guys do to your women? Stepford. |
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Location: SoCal | Shhhhh.... |
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Location: Evansville,IN | My wife isn't too bad. She always complains to begin with, but I have never had to take anything back. :D
Her nickname for me is, Sneaky McEvil. She calls me that because I don't always tell her of my purchases. :D
If she does find out about something, I usually tell her I've had it for ages, just never thought it was important enough to mention it. :) |
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Location: Midland, MI | I cut and pasted Mr. Burns story and emailed it to my wife with the preface "In this time of tragedy, doesn't this just warm your heart?" She replied, "Sounds like she loves him more, otherwise he wouldn't ask for, and have, more than one guitar."
Anyone have directions to this Stepford of which you speak? I'd be heading south on I75 to start with...
(I'm really not complaining...honest, honey!) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I am still under "one in, one out" law. We'll see what kind of havoc the Wooden Roundback causes! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Tell her not to worry. The wooden roundback it just "in transit". She will buy that and there-by qualify and unknowlingly condone another guitar catagory. Brilliant!!!!
Once you know the rules, then you can play the game. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Woody,
if you play it smart, you could make a case for two going out when the roundback leaves...leaving two new spots on the
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | My wife sounds a bit like GrilledCheese's, without the humorous acceptance! I can usually get away with most things as she's not the most observant of God's creatures.
Oh to have a wife that understands a man's need for nice guitars and power tools.
Here's my confession; I have put up with my cheap guitar (Hondo, cost me £23 at at a market when I lived in the UK - overpriced by about £20) for about 12 years now, possibly more. (I do have a nice '70's Fender Precision bass to make up for it though)
So one day I asked her, if I sold a bunch of stuff on eBay, could I have a new Ovation (new for me, that is) She OK'ed it as long as the proceeds of the auction would cover the cost. When it later slipped out that I'd already agreed to buy the guitar before I'd OK'ed it with her, the - excrement - hit - the - propeller.
I bought a mint 1768 for $521US, I've allowed $200US for shipping (it's STILL in the States as I write) My eBay auction earned me over $1000AUD, which about perfectly covers the purchase and shipping of the 1768, which I reluctantly now need to sell to cover the cost of the 2005ES FRG Collectors that I have since also bought behind her back. (Contrary to popular belief, I DO NOT have a death wish)
OK, here's the thing. Down here, I should easily get $2000AUD for the 1768. The 2005ES cost me $1000US plus about $200US for shipping - that's about $1700AUD for a NEW Ovation. If I can get $2K for the 1768, I've got a free new ovation and made $300 profit.
Do you think I should tell my wife my plans.
NO BLOODY WAY!!! I'm not a fan of sleeping on the sofa unless I'm really ill.
I love her and fear her at the same time.
I'll tell her when the profits are in the bank.
Here are my questions.
Am I an untrustworty-behind-the-back-sneaky-bastard type husband?
Or a sneaky-possibly-successful-smalltime businessman?
Or both?
Will my adoration of all things Ovation overcome my wife's reluctance to take a gamble?
Seriously, though, have I done a bad thing, going behind her back like that? I'm positive this buy for profit thing can work.
It's all the OvationFanClub's fault for telling me how bloody good the 2005ES is. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Muzza, it's called marriage and you just figured out how to make it properly work. Congrats! ;) |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by stephent28:
Muzza, it's called marriage and you just figured out how to make it properly work. Congrats! ;) Your response just gave me the biggest belly laugh I've had in months.
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Location: Midland, MI | I have a really close friend (not *that* close...although the pictures with the trannies in San Fran might suggest otherwise...hahahahaha) who is also married. He repeatedly does things surprisingly similar to what you've described, Muzza. Except with out the potential profit. I asked him once why he persisted in making life difficult for himself (I'm a 'go along to get along' kind of guy myself) he said:
It is far, far easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to beg for permission. Shortly after that conversation, I nominated him for sainthood on the post-Vatican II fast-track. I think the paperwork got lost, though. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Originally posted by MWoody:
I am still under "one in, one out" law. We'll see what kind of havoc the Wooden Roundback causes! If you bring this 'no cost' guitar in you may get it to fall outside the one-in rule. Then you keep it for a while playing it inccesantly until it becomes well know and recoginized. Now when you ship it on, you invoke the rule with a slight modification "one-out one-in"
The beauty of this plan is that it can work more than once, as long as you know people that will mail you guitars. Glenn Hess's PD that is leaving today is making room for a Paceamker.
Hey somebody mail me a guitar quick, I got a vintage legend coming in next week... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | You married guys...
...permission this...
...forgiveness that...
wahhhh, wahhh, wahhh...
Gentleman, reclaim your testicles!!
Tell 'em you're BUYING this guitar so you have something to occupy your time since you're not having sex any more! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Right. I told my wife something to that effect one time and she told me that I could easily kill both of those birds (having something to play with AND satisfying my primal urges) with one stone if I really thought hard enough.
Good thing I'm not too bright. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by muzza:
My wife sounds a bit like GrilledCheese's, without the humorous acceptance! I can usually get away with most things as she's not the most observant of God's creatures.
Oh to have a wife that understands a man's need for nice guitars and power tools.
Here's my confession; I have put up with my cheap guitar (Hondo, cost me £23 at at a market when I lived in the UK - overpriced by about £20) for about 12 years now, possibly more. (I do have a nice '70's Fender Precision bass to make up for it though)
So one day I asked her, if I sold a bunch of stuff on eBay, could I have a new Ovation (new for me, that is) She OK'ed it as long as the proceeds of the auction would cover the cost. When it later slipped out that I'd already agreed to buy the guitar before I'd OK'ed it with her, the - excrement - hit - the - propeller.
I bought a mint 1768 for $521US, I've allowed $200US for shipping (it's STILL in the States as I write) My eBay auction earned me over $1000AUD, which about perfectly covers the purchase and shipping of the 1768, which I reluctantly now need to sell to cover the cost of the 2005ES FRG Collectors that I have since also bought behind her back. (Contrary to popular belief, I DO NOT have a death wish)
OK, here's the thing. Down here, I should easily get $2000AUD for the 1768. The 2005ES cost me $1000US plus about $200US for shipping - that's about $1700AUD for a NEW Ovation. If I can get $2K for the 1768, I've got a free new ovation and made $300 profit.
Do you think I should tell my wife my plans.
NO BLOODY WAY!!! I'm not a fan of sleeping on the sofa unless I'm really ill.
I love her and fear her at the same time.
I'll tell her when the profits are in the bank.
Here are my questions.
Am I an untrustworty-behind-the-back-sneaky-bastard type husband?
Or a sneaky-possibly-successful-smalltime businessman?
Or both?
Will my adoration of all things Ovation overcome my wife's reluctance to take a gamble?
Seriously, though, have I done a bad thing, going behind her back like that? I'm positive this buy for profit thing can work.
It's all the OvationFanClub's fault for telling me how bloody good the 2005ES is. All is not lost Muzza. In fact you sound a lot like me. I've been sneaky for a long time, and I'm very good at hiding things in the open. My wife isn't the most observant of Gods creatures either. :D
I now have 7 guitars, but she thinks I only have 2, plus the uke, and mandolin. :D
It has taken many years to develope this skill, and it works about 90% of the time. :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You must have a big house and a maid to hide 5 guitars. I guess I display mine too proudly, even if they are in the basement. I don't try to hide mine, although I must admit to buying now and telling later a couple of times. I haven't mastered my wife's technique of buying something and then saying, "We talked about this and you agreed," when the reality is that she might have mumbled something and I didn't respond because I was watching a football game.
Part of being married is having somebody to complain about. As far as the sex goes, Jeff, I've found that it's a lot easier to talk my wife into it than it was to talk somebody else into it when I was single. But that was 28 years ago and I'm getting to the age where my best memories are of stuff that never happened. |
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Location: chicago | So I will tell you what im in almost 5 days of AD11 1769 ownership and the whole family agrees this axe is sweet!Dimeola had the neck modified.guessing thats one of the things that makes it a signature gtr.The neck is wider than a standard ovation and makes it much easier to play chordal picking..and the tone of this baby plugged in...........Jeff
Elite 768-X(with Roland Gk-2p/u)
AD11 1769
43'MARTIN D-28
WASHBURN TANGLEWOOD 12
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by WeaserP:
Right. I told my wife something to that effect one time and she told me that I could easily kill both of those birds (having something to play with AND satisfying my primal urges) with one stone if I really thought hard enough.
Good thing I'm not too bright. You owe my employer one new 21" monitor. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Shoot. I'll have to sell a guitar to raise enough to pay for a 21"er...(hmm, think)...HEY!JW, is it too late to get on the wooden roundback tour??? :D |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Having some idea as to where your hands have been lately.....
yeah, right. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Double shoot... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by WeaserP:
Double shoot... Your wife really IS missing out... |
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Location: Toronto | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
...But that was 28 years ago and I'm getting to the age where my best memories are of stuff that never happened. Amen brother - it's the stuff that legends are made of - got a few of my own, and gaining a few more with each passing year!
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | One place to keep them until you can cook up a story is at the office. It gives you time to contemplate. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'd still have a bunch in my office and have to explain them every day to people that came in. I had a partner who did that with golf clubs. He died in an accident a couple years ago and his wife was shocked that he had 5 or 6 sets of clubs he had hidden from her. Only problem was he was left handed and she had a tough time selling them. |
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The coolest wife ever!