Joined:
June 2025
Posts: 1
| Hi everyone!
Thank you for building and maintaining this cool space! I’m grateful to be a part of it. I’ve been playing guitar for about 6 months. Years ago, when I was 19, I was dating a girl who showed me some chords and I started playing a little. One day, we were in this beautiful guitar floor in the basement of Carousel Mall in Syracuse, NY. I fell in love with a black cutaway acoustic that looked different than everything else. I was in engineering school then, and everything about the ovation design appealed to my inner nerd. And the sound was beautiful! Soon after that, I moved away, went on with life. It wasn’t till I lost a job 6 months ago that picked up a guitar again. I bought a simple Yamaha acoustic at guitar center, but soon I spotted an ovation on Facebook marketplace. The same design, I think, that picked up decades before, but with a natural wood finish on top. I quickly drove an hour to buy it for a great price, and it was everything I remembered! It is a model number CU 147. The tone is great, the fretboard is almost electrically effortless, the electronics are great and easy to use. It remains my favorite instrument. Last Friday, I walked into a pawn shop on a whim and found myself holding an applause half-size acoustic (AA13) that was filthy and needed a truss rod adjustment and some new strings. Nobody there must have known how, cause it was marked “20 dollars, needs work, must go!” Needless to say, it took all of 10 minutes to make her sing. Now it serves as my bedside, noodling guitar. I left the action a bit higher than my others cause I like a little more height for fingerpicking. I’ve always been impressed with ovation, even their value instruments, and the fact that some loud guitar snobs dislike them just makes them easier to pick up used.
No questions yet, just looking forward to exploring on here!
Bill Callahan |
Newbie here!
