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Location: Miami | Hello,
I just picked up an ovation balladeer, model 1111-4, serial number 4481 (typewriter style numbers, all black). the back is the rough surface (not shiny), and the tuners are kluson deluxe. it has no onboard electronics - someone had put a dearmond 210 on it (thankfully). i'm having trouble figuring out whether this guitar is from 1968 or 1988. any help is much appreciated. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Looks like 68. Definitely not 88. |
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Location: SoCal | 1968 it is. What kind of shape is it in? Post a picture and let us see it. Bet it sounds great. |
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Location: Miami | thanks for the help -- im not really sure how to post pictures here, but it looks (and sounds) awesome. in all honesty, i never liked ovations until i played this one. it sounds more like a j-45...huge end, dark, vintage, worn-in. |
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Location: ranson,wva | if you email me the pics i can post them for you....adamas83@bigstring.com jason |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Winged bridge? |
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Location: ranson,wva | my 68 GC 12 has/had/useto have a winged bridge,paper new hartford lablenlight textured bowl...now its just a bowl. the top caved in....jason |
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Location: Maryland, USA | One word of advice:
They're classy.
Don't expect anything on the first date...
Sorry...couldn't help it..."Dating a 60's Ovation" |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Originally posted by Stephen P:
One word of advice:
They're classy.
Don't expect anything on the first date...
Sorry...couldn't help it..."Dating a 60's Ovation" Old guitars make great lovers!! |
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Location: Miami | just out of curiosity -- how much do the 60's ovations usually run for...i got mine luckily for a hundred bucks, but i'm assuming that they usally go for a bit more...(i'll email you a pic by the way). |
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Location: ranson,wva | depends on condition....i think the textured bowls go for a bit less than the shiny bowls do......jason |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
1968 it is. Would a '68 have a textured bowl? |
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Location: SoCal | Good point Jeff. Probably a '69. |
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Location: Miami | just out of curiosity -- how much do the 60's ovations usually run for...i got mine luckily for a hundred bucks, but i'm assuming that they usally go for a bit more...(i'll email you a pic by the way). |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | It would have to be at least a '71 or '72 with that number, right? I have '72 GC Artist that has a similar label and serial number.....textured back. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | My buddy has a 1111-4 with a textured bowl, Kluson tuners and a winged bridge. Unfortunately the serial number is unreadable. I thought I had narrowed it down to a '70 or '71 but then all the pictures I have seen of those years have the modern shaped bridges. And all the pictures of '68 and '69's seem to have a shiney bowl. So I can only guess that it was made somewhere late '69 or early '70. It's a shame about the label being defaced somewhat, it's otherwise in good condition with no finish cracks. And it's a pretty nice sounding instrument, but no 1537. |
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Location: SoCal | Sometime in '69, Ovation went to the textured bowl. In that same time period, or just after, for a year or so, they used the winged bridge. By 1972, they went with the same bridge used today. |
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Location: ranson,wva | im trying to find the lable off of my gc 12....its a paper new hartford lable jason |
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HELP - Dating on 60's Ovation
