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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Ive's owned Ovations for over 20 years, and recently bought an LX. I never realized that Ovation guitars are the only acoustics I know of that don't have pick guards. I remember at the factory tour this was stated that they never would put pick guards on their guitars. Not that we need them, and they look much better without that brown plastic anyway. How do they get away without pick guards? Mine aren't scratched in the least bit, from many years of playing. |
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Location: SoCal | Don't need pickguards. Ovation players are superior players. Pickguards are for amatuers. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Some do!
I have seen a transparent overlay sort of thing on pictures of some early Adamas.
Tacoma's use a similar transparent film.
I also think that the newer high gloss finishes are actually harder than the pick materials.
Has anyone seen an O with severe pick trails? |
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Location: south east Michigan | I have never seen pick trails.
Whatever they use it is awful damn hard.
Maybe the use the same material to coat helicopter blades.
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Hell, newer? Ovation's been doing it for 30 years. Never a pick trail. It's an Ovation trait that works
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Older Applauses have pick guards. Ugliest honkin' pick guard I've ever seen. But the SOUND makes up for it. :)
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
1978 Ovation 1617-4 Legend 6-string
1981 Ovation 1118-1 Glen Campbell 12-string
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Ovation 1777-NAT Legend 6-string |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | My Paragon and my Haida Gwaii don't have pickguards either. I bought these for $10.
Clear (or black) pickguard
I bought the clear set. You get 2 for $10, not bad. You just lay it in place and it stays. It is not glue on and can be removed in a second.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Those are cool brad!
I'm thinking you could cut out your favorite animal shapes such as sheep or Llama, and paste it, pull it, etc.
Does Cliff know about these? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Trails, you guys are seeing trails? pick trails?
As for pickguards, well we don't need no stinkin pickguards. |
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Those huge pickguards like the ones on Gibson Jumbos have got to be tone killers. Why would you want to put so much plastic on a spruce top? |
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Location: NJ | Next year at the tour I will give guitar picking and holding lessons. If you hold your pick and guitar correctly you will not get scratches. It's all in the technique. |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | Originally posted by Legend-LX-Fan:
Those huge pickguards like the ones on Gibson Jumbos have got to be tone killers. Why would you want to put so much plastic on a spruce top?
Reminds me of the time back in 1973 when I was looking for a Gibson J-200. The local music store didn't have one, but they had just got in an Everly Brothers Gibson. The entire top seem to be covered with pick guards. I passed on it. Seems they are collector items now.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | If anybody neds to protect their virginal beauty, I've got 3 or 4 pick gaurds that I took off my mandolins that could be adapted to a guitar. They would stand about an inch off the guitar and might interfere with he picking. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Bailey,
Would those be considered as "training pickguards"? Eventually you work down to a lower set and finally you get to play an Ovation?
Think of the marketing potential! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | GREAT THINKING MWoody
Like training wheels for your first Harley, now that they are the chosen bike for the noveau riche (I think I saw that Hilton girl on one). I can see a nation wide marketing blitz, the only problem is, I only have 2 or three, so the campaign would have to depend on all the rest of the mandolin players to step up and provide THEIR discarded pick gaurds.
Please contact us you mandolin players who want to finally be rich.
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Location: Florida | Well I took MY mandolin pickguard off. The bad news is Bill Nichols is making me a new one. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | If the pick guards tend to "dampen" the vibrations, then doesn't the glued on epaulets do the same thing.
Of course the new LX epaulets are inlaid. Reminds me, atthe tour Rick Hall pointed out to us that they have removed the maple portion of the epaulets. The lighter color tended to clash with the overall appearance... |
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