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Location: Caribou, ME | Being a champion of lost causes it hurt me deeply to pick this apart like a two day old Thanksgiving turkey. I keep reminding myself that other O's will live to fight another day as a result of this one's sacrifice.
Balladeer 1974-2010 R.I.P. |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | Glad you were able to salvage something from this poor guitar... How anybody could abuse an O like this is beyond me. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Save the foil label also... if you can.
If for nothing else, "In Memoriam". |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | S/N sticker too! |
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Location: Caribou, ME | The foil label has already been peeled and reattached upside down (no idea why). It looks like it will pull up easily.
I have a 1111-6 with no serial number that was made somewhere between '74-'79. The temptation is to reattach the sacrificed s/n onto that but it's unethical. |
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Location: Utah | I don't think it would be unethical if you were to tell any future owner that the sticker is real but from a different guitar. |
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Location: Ontario Canada | Hello ksdaddy,
The winters are long up in Maine, you might be able to find a nice quarter cut piece of Spruce at the local lumber yard like I did about a year ago.
It was a 2x10 about four feet long, I couldn't believe my luck. Price was right for a pensioner's hip pocket too. I put it through the band saw and got eight pieces out of it. My son has it stickered and stacked with some rocks to prevent twisting. You will make a beautiful top someday for this deserving Ovation orphan.
Regards
Jim. |
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Location: Texas | it looks like it went through a fire, flood, or both… if you resurrect that one, we REALLY want to see the "after" photos… |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | WOW, talk about a labor of love.
Please be sure to post pics of the comleted project like you did for the autopsied guitar. |
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| Originally posted by FlySig:
I don't think it would be unethical if you were to tell any future owner that the sticker is real but from a different guitar. Just say that the guitar needed a lot of parts replaced - lots of vintage race cars where the only original part left on them is the VIN so it should be OK to do that with guitars as well..lol |
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Location: South of most, North of few | anybody get the number of that truck? |
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Sacrificing a 1111 for the greater good
