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Location: 6 String Ranch | 2080D
and the 4 slotheads
and the 1984-4 |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Really it would be the the SSB Cherry burst!!
If I could ever get it back from my son... |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Without question!!
Adamas Slothead #45
Followed by my first Ovation
Adamas11 1581-9
AJ |
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Location: Pennsylvania | 1115 Pacemaker....easy question when you only have one. lol |
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Location: Texas | Santa Cruz "H" Custom Brazilian back and sides/German spruce top.
Ah, Ovation?
1627 Glen Campbell :)
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I have decided to keep them all!!!
1187-247 #87 30th Anniv. Adamas Slothead
1687-8 119-86 Adamas I
1687-8 189-89 Adamas I
1687-7 1745-91 Adamas I
1688-7 3347-93 Adamas I 12
1758-6p Elite 12
1718-6p Elite
1868-6p Elite SSB
1987-4 Collectors
1776 Patriot
1615-1 Pacemaker 12
1982-8 Collectors
1968 Balladeer 12
1758-5 Elite 12
1537-5 Elite
1253-1 Deacon 12 |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Great list of guitars Mike. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and that's just the Ovation/Adamas side of the collection. |
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Location: Tennessee | Which one would I keep?
-> The OFC Slothead. Definitely.
-> Nope, hang on. The Lennon. This is the epitome of what Ovation is all about.
-> Nay, the 2007BCS. I love that guitar. It is the pinnacle of Ovation engineering.
-> Wait ... the 1537 is killer. Best one I've ever played and the most beautiful to boot.
-> Hold on, I couldn't live without the Custom Legend 12. A top to die for. Sound too. Plus its got the Optima.
-> Uh ... I forgot the electrics. I'm keeping the Deacon Deluxe 12. Too rare, too cool and plays like butter.
-> Make that the mahogany Viper. It is the one guitar that always seems to wind up on my recordings.
-> Oh wait ... the EA-68 Viper. Gotta have that. 16 frets clear is just the bomb. Glen Campbell plays one. So does Dan Shafer.
-> Yipes. That reminds me. I have the EAB-68 Viper bass. In the Cherry Cherry Burst. I love that color. Everyone needs a bass. And the chicks all dig bass players, right? OK, keeper.
-> Hang on. You know, the Josh White may be old and played a lot, but it is all original, in great shape, and it's got mojo oozing out of its mojo. And I can claim I play a manly-necked guitar. If it's provenance I should be looking at, this is the one.
-> Or maybe not. The 1968 shiny Balladeer 12 has the coolest braz winged bridge. And it sounds like a choir of angels. I got to keep that one.
-> You know, the one guitar I said I'd never let go is the 2000 Collectors. My favorite neck ... bar none. And oh so stunningly beautiful. So that's the one I must keep.
-> Well, lemme think about this ... that K-1111 reissue is really opening up for me. There's something very special in that thing ...
-> What am I thinking? The 1311, my very first Ovation, has been my trusty partner for 27 years ... longer than any of them others.
-> OK. So I can let the 1969 1117 with the winged bridge go. No wait. I've got that one strung Nashville and it just sings. Everyone needs a Nashville guitar. Besides, the brochure from that year has Eric Clapton playing this exact guitar.
I've got it. I can sell the 2171 Ultra. It's a great little guitar. Love the asian style sunburst with the bright red layer and the yellow layer. Sounds great with its solid top and contour bowl. The 5 piece neck looks and feels like a USA neck. It's the guitar that gets left out and banged on by anyone who comes around and it holds up no problem. But I could sell that one. If I had to. Was that the original question?
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Beal, you really do like the '84 don't you? |
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| I only all got the one Ovation so that's the one I'd keep but I'd have to keep it no matter what as I've had it since 75. |
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Location: Vermont | My '83 1157-7 (original owner). Even though it has a number of terrible cracks in the wood and some crazing in the finish, the highs are wonderfully crisp and the lows are full and rich. It's a joy to play.
I paid $250 for it in '83 and it sounds better than $3000 Martins I've played recently.
When I go I'm taking it with me! :) |
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Location: Munich, Germany | This thread is nothing without pics:
Best regards,
Kurt |
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Location: SoCal | Kurt, I gotta tell you. Ever since I first saw a pic of that guitar I have thought that it may be the most stunningly beautiful roundback to ever come out of the factory. I was never a fan of the red of the 47's and I love the blue of my OFC (ding) guitar, but that beige is was just done so RIGHT.
If I could afford to have the factory build me just one guitar, that would probably be the template for it..... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by Charlie Ramon:
Adamas #47 reissue: best sound, most valuable, best stability.
Karl +1 |
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If ya only could keep ONE of your OVATIONS or ADAMAS which one would it be?
