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Location: Parrish, FL | Certainly a RARE Collectors guitar! :rolleyes:
1950\'s Ovation
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | I would guess it was made in the late 70s, early eighties. Where do people come up with these years????? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I politely emailed pandoramma and explained that in 1950'S Ovation hadn't gotten around to building their first guitar just yet. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | More likely mid-seventies...foil label and volume only knob.
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Probably more like early to mid '70's because of the single volume knob.... |
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Location: SoCal | You guys are sooo cynical. If he says it's a 1950's Ovation, then it is. He wouldn't lie. All sellers on ebay are knowledgable and honest. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I think I'll list my pre-war 1537 on the bay.
20k reserve. |
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Location: SoCal | I think I'll list my pre-war 1537 on the bay.
20k reserve. Way to cheap. |
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | I get it now, the MOB is a 50s Ovation design. :) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Didn't Frankie Valli play one in "Beach Blanket Bingo"? |
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| It can't be a 50's guitar, plastic wasn't invented yet... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ithink they called it bakelite back then |
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Location: Omaha | It looks like it's in pretty good shape, but do I detect two nylon strings with ball ends: the G and B strings? I wonder how that adds up to "it's all about TONE!"
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Location: Central Florida | That was the same guitar Sheriff Andy Taylor used play on his front porch every evening in Mayberry... Yeah, I remember now... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Sorry Jeff.
That would be this one:
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Uncle Woody's internet dating tip #77: You can tell her real age by asking which "Barney" she grew up with! |
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Location: NJ | The latter of which more than likely has a purple Martin "Signature" model . . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Isn't the purple Martin a bird? |
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Location: NJ | I dunno . . but the aluminum one's a dog . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, this is true. The only good ones had aluminum necks too |
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Location: Central Florida | Ahhh, now I see... The lack of a pickguard made me think he played a 50's Ovation, not a Martin. ;) |
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