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Location: Florida | Hello OFC members,
I am a newer member and am having fun on this site.
My first Ovation was, and still is, a 1973 Ovation Legend Model 1617-4 Serial #008343.
I bought it the only year the NAMM show was in Miami.(I think Chicago was having a blizzard)
That was the start of my fascination with Ovation guitars.
It's only the last few years that I have I a Breadwinner Ltd., a custom shop Ovation Elite 2000 Ltd. Ed. Burled Walnut made for the now defunct MARS Music stores, a Viper and a Viper III.
I don't know how to put photos on this site, but I put some of the Vipers at http://ovationfanclub.ning.com/profile/nibblegribitz
Speaking of Vipers, the serial numbers are
E-12031 and E-16752. Which one is older?
Also, which are rarer, the 2-screw silver/black tuners with silver insert or the 1-screw silver tuners with "U" shaped insert?
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | First... Don't be sorry about the length of the message. I ain't long at all.
"E-12031 and E-16752. Which one is older?" The one with the lowest number...
As to the tuners, I think that they are supposed to have the silver and black two-screw tuners.
[Personally, mine has some after-market no-screw tuners, but I didn't have to put any extra holes in] |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by nibblegribitz:
My first Ovation was, and still is, a 1973 Ovation Legend Model 1617-4 Serial #008343. Alriiiighty! Thirty-six years of mojo, AAA spruce, A bracing, etc. That's the Ovation sound I love to go back to! 
Where in the Sunshine state are ya located? |
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Location: Florida | Hey Iffy,
Still sounds good!! Case is a little bubbley.
I'm in the northwest corner of Dade County(just north of Miami).
My legend came with gold tuners, do you know if that was standard? |
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Location: Tennessee | Iffy ... ngb has one of the czar walnut guitars!! Now you guys HAVE to get together. If for no other reason than to shoot some pictures of that guitar for us. |
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Location: Florida | Hey stonebobo,
Member #447,.. I'm impressed.
Photos are posted at
http://ovationfanclub.ning.com/profile/nibblegribitz
nibblegribitz |
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Location: SoCal | Iffy, a 1973 Legend would have VT-11 bracing.... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by nibblegribitz:
Case is a little bubbley. So am I... ;)
My legend came with gold tuners, do you know if that was standard? Yepper!
NW Dade, near Homestead? We head through there on our Keys sojourns.
bobbo,
Yummm, walnut... if I were a termite that would be my chocolate!
moody,
So much for the 'O' SITE ...  Still a 'legend'! |
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Location: Florida | Iffy,
I'm about an hour north of Homestead, closer to Hollywood. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | nib,
PM sent... |
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