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Location: Huntington Beach, CA | Patch has a very nice guitar up for sale in the For Sale section of this board. I'm confused though. His guitar is obviously a Custom Legend based on the fretboard design, it's a cutaway and made in 1996.
I have a 30th Anniversary "Commemorative" Custom Legend that looks entirely different. It's bearclaw sitka spruce with abalone raised rosette, it has the pop-out Op-Pro electronics, inlaid abalone perfling and position markers (diamonds), high gloss face, headstock and neck. It's also a non-cutaway. Mine doesn't have the fretboard inlay saying 30th Anniversary or Collectors but it does have the truss rod cover that says "30th Commemorative" (and dual truss rod adjustment by the way).
If I knew how to post a pic, I'd include it here. I'm working with Ovation on some fine tuning so mine is not for sale (yet) and I'm not pushing Patch's guitar either, although it's a beautiful piece and probably sounds as good as it looks. I just don't understand how they can both be "30th" year CL models and be so different.
Can someone familiar with these models help out here? Thanks. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | I'm taking a wild guess about this, but could it be that my 30th anniversary commemorates the anniversary of Ovation guitars and the 30th Anniversary Custom Legend commemorates the anniversary of the Legend model (or the Custom Legend Model)? :confused: Interesting question though. :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Patch is right. One for Ovation's 30th and one for the 30th birthday of the CL. |
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Location: SoCal | To some of us, we do not call a Custom Legend a Legend; as I wouldn't call a Custom Elite, a '87C, or the "book" guitar an Elite...in style (center hole or epaulets) but not the same. Call it what you want but it is in a different class.
The 2004 1719-30CM was to commemorate the 30 wonderful years of the Custom Legend. From the time Linda got a Cl for Paul.
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Eman, if that's what yours looks like :eek: and you do put it up for sale eventually, I might be stalking that ad! Very...VERY...nice!
'Course, I gotta sell mine (and probably several others) first. :cool: |
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA | Yeah, that's mine alright. Still thinking about selling. Whenever I get close, I play it and fall in love all over again. GAS sure messes with your mind. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Eman, I just got a 1719 30CM-VN 2 weeks ago. I cannot believe how good this guitar sounds acoustically. It's an incredible guitar. All my buddy's I jam with are jealous. In fact one, just yesterday found a 30th commemorative on Ebay and bought it out right. Didn't even bid on it!! I think, no ,I know you will be sorry if you did. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | The 1719-30CM was way up top of the GAS list and I was so close to pulling the trigger on it when the Takamine EF75J came into the picture. The scales tipped to the Takamine side and I'm more than pleased with my choice, but, I still yearn for the 30CM. What a classy insrument! |
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30th Anniversary - Commemorative - Collectors???
