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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | You can't go wrong with any of them.
My advice would be to get whichever one is the easiest to get and then while you are enjoying that one, start working on acquiring the next one.
It might take you a couple years but eventually you could get the '08, the UTE and a #47RI and be the envy of the neighborhood! |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by stephent28:
It might take you a couple years but eventually you could get the '08, the UTE and a #47RI and be the envy of the neighborhood! Don't believe him. Your neighbours will just think you're weird, like OMA's friend: "Are those all your guitars?". :eek:
However, people on this list (me included) would be seriously jealous of anyone who scored the hat trick of fabric tops. Although I think a four-peat would include an Adamas 1 with the broccoli headstock. |
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Location: SoCal | There's at least one person on the board who not only has all the guitars mentioned, but also an original slothead. A true Ovation fanatic..... |
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| Thanks for all the input everyone. I guess all things taken into consideration..I just need to bite the bullet and buy an Adamas...though I'm still hoping that there will be a 47 RI that I would someday be able to afford. Thanks Again :) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Jose, I think Vision on the board has a couple of Adamas for sale too, You might want to do a search for one of her posts and contact her. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | TJ; if you only knew........ |
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| Originally posted by stephent28:
You won't regret the '08 collectors. Everything an Adamas should be and while you see the UTE pop up with regulatory in the "FOR SALE" Section (everybody loves them but seem to sell them anyway), I have yet to see anyone put up an '08 Collectors for sale.
Call Al and just do it. I've noticed that with the utes as well - people claim to love them then sell them. I've given up buying guitars since I got my ute - the only one I've bought since was the ute 12.
Never played an 08 collectors so I can't answer the question, but I'd like to know why people sell their utes. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Cause the Ute just can't match the OFC Wideneck in any category. I played the '08 Collector and it just didn't seem anything special to me... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Clive, I just think it is a matter of bonding.
For me, the UTE was a fab playing and sounding guitar but it just never felt right.
Same thing with my Martin 000-28NB Norman Blake. Incredible sounding and playing guitar and everyone who plays it loves it. Just hasn't bonded well with me which is why it is in the "gotta go" pile. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by schroeder:
but I'd like to know why people sell their utes. Oh there are plenty of reasons.
Reason 1) Their home was experiencing unexplained foundation cracks.
2) It frightened the dog.
3) Neighbors complained even when playing unplugged.
4) Some local authorities wanted it deemed a dangerous weapon.
5) It frightened the children.
6) Didn't want to embarass his guitar friends when playing together.
And 7).... It frightened them! |
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Location: SoCal | When we got the U681T, we were amazed. It is everything we expected after the wonderful reviews of the acoustic prototypes. Amazing guitar and (again) amazing price.
Then the 47RI, then the OFC. Some of us bought all three. (also have three 1687's)
I know that I will probably release the U681T at some point, not the 47RI or the OFC.
This does not take anything away from the U681T...had to pay a lot more for the 47RI and OFC.
In the meantime, I enjoy all three.
As to the 2008C, also a superior guitar but four textured top slotheads? If I hadn't gotten the 47RI or the OFC, then the 2008C.
Get one (two, three, or all) of the four, fight for it...I don't believe they will be available in the future.
Want to buy today? Call Al for a 2008C, nice price, great guitar. |
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Location: NJ | Or just buy Colin's SlotHead and be DONE with it . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Cliff,
Good advice.
I had previously posted that I should have just bought Colin's about two years ago (or the one from San Diego that Fugot picked up). |
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| Thanks for all the great advice guys! All these guitars seem to be really great guitars and I cant go wrong with any one of them. Hopefully I will have a guitar by the end of the week... I guess I'll leave it up to the old coin toss :) |
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| I played the OFC at the last Tour and it's a wonderful guitar, but it certainly wouldn't replace the ute in my affections. Very different sound and I would love to own both. I guess you could love one much more than the other but to say that one blows the other one away has to be personal taste rather than an objective opinion. Or the view of a truly fantastic guitarist. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The Ute and OFC are very different guitars. Tim's OFC is a wideneck. Mine isn't, so the OFC and Ute are considerably different at that end of the fretboard. Ute is a 12 fret neck, with more stringlength over the body. The OFC has a deeper bowl. Like comparing a Folklore to a Legend. Different guitars for different styles. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | I guess you could love one much more than the other but to say that one blows the other one away has to be personal taste rather than an objective opinion. Or the view of a truly fantastic guitarist.
Well, I'm not a fantastic player! In fact, less than mediocre at best. But when I sat in front of Temp playing my OFC in Amelia.."it blew me away". He played the crap out of and it just kept on giving.
I also agree with Mark, the Ute is a different animal entirely. In fact, much closer to the FD-14 in play and feel. The Fudd is more "wood tone" & mellow, whereas the Ute just shakes the room and your fillings. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Jose, I think Vision on the board has a couple of Adamas for sale too, You might want to do a search for one of her posts and contact her. Thanks for the sales pitch Jim but no one is buying right now. You know things are bad when someone offers you $850.00 for an Adamas I lol Why am I laughing? Blueberry guitars are selling but I don't want to let mine go. HO HUM. |
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