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Location: Canada | With all this trading going on maybe Dave should update the listing of the exclusive A club, which may be a bit out of date: http://www.ovationgallery.com/collectors/collector-ofc.htm#47 |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Damon67 - 2016-03-17 11:52 AM
Congrats! One of the very best for sure
Thank You Damon!!! 
My Holy Grail List is getting smaller and smaller - it is down to:
Your Wood Top UKII, and
Prototype #23 BearClaw
and that is about it! Those 2 will never happen, but it gives me something to wish for!  |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You have a Ute, Nancy? The guy with 2 #47RIs was wishing he had mine when he visited me last week. I don't buy the Holy Grail theory. It assumes there is one perfect guitar. I prefer Damon's theory that one more guitar is enough. I like to rationalize that I at least need guitars with different fret widths, fretboard radiuses, string types and number to play the songs I do, plus a bunch of different variations of electric guitars. My wife thought this sounded reasonable when I first told her I would limit my purchases to different models of Ovations. After I had about a dozen she found out there were probably a hundred left. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | "My wife thought this sounded reasonable when I first told her I would limit my purchases to different models of Ovations. After I had about a dozen she found out there were probably a hundred left."
LOL!!!!!!!!! Your wife must be a Saint, or at least have a Wonderful sense of Humor!
No Ute, at least not yet! Give me a bit more time! LOL!!!!
My take on the 'Holy Grail' is a wee bit different than yours, to me it doesn't represent the Most Perfect, but the Quest for the most Unobtainable. Something that touches something deep inside of you, and you want or need to find it, and hold it because it is that beautiful, and that rare.
Only problem with my Holy Grails, are once I have crossed one off the list, I am onto the hunt for the next one. LOL!!! It is a Quest, if you will. I don't really believe there is one, 'Perfect guitar', as each person has their own qualifications for what would be "Perfect". And to be really honest, I already have what I consider the "Perfect" guitar (for me), and that is my 1976 Custom Legend 1619-4. All of the others could be replaced (at great expense, I know...) but that 1976 CL could not be replaced, and the action and sound from it are irreplaceable to me. So definitely Not Perfect by normal standards, or compared to other more expensive pieces, but Perfect to me!
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Location: Canada | Well a 47RI was kind of a "dream guitar" for me as well, and it seems Nancy has some great talent to find gems. I just consider myself very lucky to have found a 1687RI of similar vintage, and be content with that. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My dream guitar would be an original slothead, so I compensated with the OFC 1 and #47RI. I don't know if it would fit my definition of the Holy Grail if that meant replacing the OFC and #47. I probably won't have to make that decision.
If you could be a saint without having a sense of humor, yes my wife is a saint. I think she gets a perverse enjoyment out of "complaining" to our friends about my Ovation obsession and I enjoy pointing out to her that there are many that share my obsession or are "worse" than me. I used to have a lot more bad examples than I've found recently. I don't know if I could say she tolerates it as much as she tries to ignore it. Last night she told me our daughter was going to the Tulip Festival "someplace near Seattle". I said it was in Mt. Vernon and that I've been there. She asked how I knew that and I reminded her Miles lives there. After the blank stare, I said "Mr. Ovation." After another "what the hell are you talking about" I explained that Miles was one of the founders of the OFC and had an Ovation Gathering in Mt. Vernon a few years ago. I learned about the Tulip Festival from that trip. This is, after all, an educational forum.
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Mark in Boise - 2016-03-17 6:45 PM
... This is, after all, an educational forum.
LMAO!!!!!!!! You crack me up so bad Mark!!!! Fantastic!!!! LOL!!!!! |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Educational - for sure, I've learned a lot. But there's some bad influences here, I had one Ovation when I joined. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | TAFKAR - 2016-03-17 8:44 PM
Educational - for sure, I've learned a lot. But there's some bad influences here, I had one Ovation when I joined.
+1 (come to think of it, I only had one too!!) |
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Location: Utah | I got my first Ovation from someone on this forum! My daughter had an Applause 3/4 size guitar as her first, and then I bought her a 1778T Red Flame when she was about 14. We walked into the acoustic room at Guitar Center and as soon as she saw it on the wall she declared that was the one she wanted! I was thrilled, as I had always wanted an Ovation from when I was her age. That got me interested in getting back into playing when she got the Red Flame, which led me here, which led me to the beautiful 6778LX-VN (looked very much like the '07 Collectors), which I recently sold to Alison. Being here I then bought a new '07C, then the Ute for Sara's high school graduation. Then a Hamer, Patriot, 1537, 2080, Viper, and Breadwinner.
Soon to add the Bearclaw anniversary Adamas. Several pictures from the factory show racks of the Anniversary guitars in process, so it won't be long.
Yeah this place is a bad influence! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Me, too. I had my Matrix since I bought it new in 1977 and found this forum when I was trying to figure out if a used Celebrity was a good deal. I didn't buy that one, but stumbled onto one on ebay, traded up for a 99 Collector and then all hell broke loose. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Nancy - 2016-03-17 6:52 PM
TAFKAR - 2016-03-17 8:44 PM
Educational - for sure, I've learned a lot. But there's some bad influences here, I had one Ovation when I joined.
+1 (come to think of it, I only had one too!! )
I was buying a Korean 4861 Balladeer and wanted to know about strings and such. 
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | FlySig - 2016-03-18 1:50 PM
Soon to add the Bearclaw anniversary Adamas. Several pictures from the factory show racks of the Anniversary guitars in process, so it won't be long.
YES FlySig!!!!! Another BearClaw to the Clan!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! |
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Location: Utah | Thanks, Nancy. |
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Location: Colorado | Mark...your RI plays very very well. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | elginacres - 2016-03-26 8:01 PM Mark...your RI plays very very well. I am going to assume that the 47RI in question used to be mine......and yes, it played and sounded great. I really hated to sell that one but at the time I had another 47RI (which I also sold but I can't remember where it went). Having the twin longnecks and original wideneck slothead formerly purchased by Linda McCartney for Wings tends to make you a bit jaded when it comes to owning so many incredible guitars and it feels good to let them go to those that still need the thrill of one of the finest guitars Ovation ever made.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm glad you felt the urge to sell it Stephen. I got in big trouble for showing up really late at Keystone after visiting you and the Professor and she didn't even know I'd brought back the guitar. I don't know when I'd ever have another opportunity to get such a masterpiece. |
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Location: Colorado | You can tell it has loosened up....amazing what bass players can do with sound to an acoustic guitar! |
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valuation on my 47 ri
