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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | I stopped by the music store today, and I saw how someone can really ruin a nice old Ovation. Someone had traded in an old natural Custom Balladeer, and they had added a horrible homemade pickguard on the guitar. I can't describe how bad that looked. They might have been going for a tortoise shell look, but they used a brown piece of plastic. Just horrible. I am so glad Ovations don't have pickguards. I have never put a scratch on mine while playing. I guess the owner of that Custom Balladeer had a heavy hand. YUCK! :confused: |
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Location: Texas | Sounds like this one was added to cover up a hole, or damage.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Before there is a Firing Squad scheduled for dawn I would like to point out that while it is a total sacrilidge to put a Pickguard on an ACOUSTIC Ovation guitar there are some of us that feel some of the most beautiful P/G's ever made were placed on Ovation Solids!
I laugh a snooty french laugh (Sorry Jerome') at those JC Whitney looking little excuses for protection you find on LP's and Epi's! I say "Balderdash" in a pompous British poppycock sort of way!
Give me the waving walnut of a Jim Rickard deacon any day! show me the Tan and Tourtise of a Breadwinner and I will show you the axe the Angels play!
BTW - I need a good name for Moody's Natural Viper with the "Bluebird-esque" Deacon neck and figured walnut P/G. |
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Location: Australia | As far as O acoustics go, it's like a moustache on the Mons Lisa. |
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Location: SoCal | re: BTW - I need a good name for Moody's Natural Viper with the "Bluebird-esque" Deacon neck and figured walnut P/G.
let's see, we have the Preacher, the Deacon, the Breadwinner, the Hurricane...
think it is time for THE ENFORCER :D |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Magnum comes to mind. |
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Location: Chicagoland | How about the Pope? Or the Bishop, Cardinal...you know...Preacher, Deacon...Pope! :-) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Enforcer
Magnum (taken)
The Usher
The Patriarch
Nancy
...must keep trying! |
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Location: NJ | The Hillary. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | roundback + pickguard + calling an Applause "vintage & rare" = A$$hole
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33029&item=7... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The MoodyPeeOn |
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Location: closely held secret | "HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE & WILL ONLY GO UP IN VALUE"?
Yah, like an '89 Tempo.
"YOU ARE NOT LIKELY TO FIND ONE OF THESE IN THIS GOOD OF SHAPE AT THIS LOW PRICE AGAIN."
We can hope.
What a bunch of horse chips. And for the very reasonable price of $575...
Goodbye, truth in advertising. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | I seem to remember one of the Applause models having a pickgaurd on it. I had a friend that owned one. It came that way Brand new. Don't think they make those anymore, but when he purchased his brand new in 1977 it sure had one. I remembered that it looked strange. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | There is an applause on ebay right now with pickguard. Personally I don't think they look too bad. Black headstock with a black pickguard. The early applause headstock was somewhat Adamas-I looking. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I HAVE one of the Applauses in question....the model is a 1976-vintage AA14. I don't care for the pickguard, or the rosette, either, for that matter, but when I play it I don't have to look at it that much........and the sound is well worth it.
Roger |
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Tony, there is only one name for your guitar:
THE PHANTOM :) |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Mitchrx, normally I'd agree with you about the Applause seller, BUT......I've NEVER SEEN an Applause 12-string of that vintage(as old as they come, and nearly the same age as my 6-string)...I'd have to agree with him....it is VINTAGE in any case, and it probably is a bit rare, BECAUSE IT IS A 12-STRING.
Now, does that make it really WORTH something???? Well......we'll see!!!! It's only worth what someone will pay for it.
Roger |
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Pickguard+Ovation=CRIME!