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Location: florida | hey guys!,
glad to see i am not the only one in the world who loves ovation electrics.
i do have a question for you guys though.
i am the proud owner of a preacher 1281 and a viper 1271. i am not a collector by any means, i have these guitars to play and play them i do. so, the question is... i am interested in replacing the pickups (bridge pickups) in either or both guitars. i am wondering if and there are and where are pickups that would fit into the original rout of both guitars. also i am wondering if the preacher being stereo output has any effect on the range of pickup choices i have. i love the p90 sound and also the minihumbucker sound ( i am looking for those in particular to replace either the bridge or neck pickup on either guitar). the p90 would go into the neck position. i love modifying guitars and making them my own, so any help would be useful and greatly appreciated. thanks guys |
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| Welcome! I'm not knowledgeable about the electrics, but there are plenty here who are. I'm sure they'll chime in soon. Sounds like you're a kindred spirit with Woody.
Whereabouts in FL are you? |
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Location: Vernon CT | Welcome to "insanity" ;) !!!
No ,seriously, stick around and you'll learn alot. I'm more an Acoustic guy so can't really help you. |
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Location: Slightly northwest of Trader Jim | Welcome to the club. You don't have to be crazy.. but it helps! :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Take a look in my Gallery and you will see a few modified solids. Minis work and are available all over. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | nothing fits the cavities but Ovation pickups.
Now it you want to go changing pickguards, then you can do all kinds of things like Woody suggests. |
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Location: Tennessee | For me, it's the hot bridge pickup that makes my 1271 what it is. You couldn't pay me enough to swap it out. :cool: That said, I got other guitars with mini-humbuckers, and Duncan JBs and 59s, and PhatCats, and P-90s, Kent Armstrong lipsticks,and EMGs, and whatever the hell we want to call what is in the Deacon 12. I guess what I'm really saying is just buy more guitars. :) |
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Location: florida | i could go buy more guitars, but the neck profile and playability of the viper and preacher have , so far in my experience, seem unsurpassed. i love playing and feeling these guitars (that sounded a little weird) but i want a semi-different sound while keeping the quality and playability of the ovation standards. |
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Location: florida | o and i am from the pensacola area |
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Location: enid, ok | You need a breadwinner or a deacon. Unmodified. Difficult if not impossible to improve these guitars. Top-line in any era. I have one I've been playing for 27 years. I got into whammy bars, and that's the only reason I have anything else in a solidbody. So much tonal range you can't possibly even like all the sounds. Not a strat or a les paul, tho it can do some imitations tone-wise. And, as is said in the suit comercials, "You're gonna like the way you look." |
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Location: florida | they are really hard to find though... i wanted a deacon before i got my preahcer, but couldnt find one for less than 800 and at the time that was all i was willing to spend....now i am broke from buying a silvertone 1482..great buy though, nothing crunches like old tubes on a 12' jensen utah speaker...nothing |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You might want to check Mr Ovations (Sunny Ledges) e-store for NOS pickups.
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Location: florida | new idea..there is a viper body and neck sold seperately on the bay right now.... i could probaly spend about 100 dollars and get them both. so instead of modding my current guitars , i could invest in a project guitar. the problem: no bridge or electronics come with the guitar..jsut the neck and body. so... what could be used as a replacement for that massive bridge rout. those things are super rare by themselves. i have ideas for pickups (massaging the routs to fit p90 at the neck since it is a little bit larger and finding an original bridge viper pickup and fitting it into the bridge position) but what the heck can i do for that bridge? maybe go bigsby and just mount in a creative way?
i just dont know.......HELP!!!!!! |
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Location: Indiana | You definitely need to chum up with Woody. He's Frankensteined some beautiful solid's.
Welcome to the OFC, sonofapreacherman.
I'm a PK too, BTW. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | :D
"Fly if you can, run if you must"
Yoda
Take a cruise through the postings of myself, Crimson Lake, Seesquare and use search words like "projects".
Then, Paduan, you will be on the road to enlightenment...
BTW - I believe the days of $100 Vipers on Ebay are long gone, there's about a dozen of us that graze Ebay often. |
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Location: florida | o trust me i see the days of 100 dollar vipers are long gone...550-800 dollars is what i would spend for a complete and factory one..but i am looking at just a body with defects and a neck that needs a little attention. i think i can pull it off for about 100 maybe 150. we sahll see though, if i cant pull that off it is back to the drawing board. i looked through the postings but couldnt really find much help in them. i am truly concerned with the bridge rout that exist in these guitars. i know i can build in the pickups but i have never attempeted a "bridge" mod, especially one that would be so drastic. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by sonofapreacherman1987:
o and i am from the pensacola area My condolences... But welcome anyway. Always happy to see more electric players. |
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Location: florida | glad to be here and very glad to be an ovation electric player |
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