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Location: Tennessee | I spoze that maybe the DW folk might see this ... so I can contribute my dos pesos. I'm real glad there's a spark of life in the old girl, and glad my California brethren are riding the white horse. If it was my money you were spending, here's what I'd ask you to do. Get your production lines dialed in by building an OFC 3 guitar to get started off. I bought a 1 and a 2 so you know I'm in. You need to work with AlPep to pull it off I think, if he's willing to do it. But this time, it needs to be a workingman's guitar, maybe half the price of the 1's and 2's. It needs to say all those things that are what the Ovation brand stands for, at at the same time be innovative and modern like the last generation of guitars out of CT in the 2005-2009 years. In other words, exactly what folks here are saying you're gonna built anyway. Save the pinnacle high-end model that you can do for a 50th Anniversary special which you have to put out next year anyway. That one can be $5K or more guitar. I don't want to open a can of worms as to what the OFC 3 should have in terms of features and finishes. Since it's my money, I say just let Darren and Al spec it out, and you guys decide. I'll buy one just because. Happily. Think about it like it was family and friends night at your new restaurant the night before you opened your new place to the public. Here's to you! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | If Al can pull this off it would be a no brainer purchase. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | That is an Excellent Idea!!
I know you only create a special number for the OFC runs, and that will immediately create a Have To Have Collectible right from the Get-Go!!!
"Save the pinnacle high-end model that you can do for a 50th Anniversary special which you have to put out next year anyway. That one can be $5K or more guitar."
HOLY Buckets!! I need to get my butt in gear saving for that!!! That would be Incredible!!!
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Location: NJ | I still have a couple of new KOA guitars available.
so payment up front ........ |
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Location: Colorado | OFC 3...I'd be in....sorry Al - I never was a KOA guy...I always liked the guitars that were tools of the trade....I just got lucky on one.... |
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Location: SoCal | Guess a dollar a month for OFC3 won't work?
I am a little surprised that Al still has some of his great Koa slotheads left...I got one of the 14-fret a couple of months ago...great, great guitar. We asked for it and Al worked with the factory to deliver. It is a SLOTHEAD!! WIDE NECK!! VIP pre-amp...maybe the only example of an Ovation slothead now or in the future.
These have been sitting in inventory but as new as when they left the factory (and warranty). |
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Location: Canada | I'd just be happy with another 1687 RI, still haven't even covered the basics ... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | My AlPep Koa is getting as much (if not more) play time than my '08 Collectors Adamas. It is amazing that Al still has some to sell. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I like the idea of a limited run OFC model. But maybe they should start off with something special, yet still basic.
Might be asking a bit much to come out with some sort of tricked out Adamas right out of the gate.
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Ovation's bread & butter has always been... The Working Man's Guitar. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Ok. I'm in too BUT, it has, as in HAS to be a 1 3/4 nut |
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Location: south east Michigan | Hey... just who do you think your are? |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | I'm in too. Maybe make matching 6 and 12ers...? |
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Location: SoCal | Leave it to the guy using just half his brain to come up with a brilliant idea! I'm in..... |
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Location: SoCal | Well, one side at a time reduces fatigue... |
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Location: Indiana | Not everyone likes wide nuts.
Tried my best to put that another way.... |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Jonmark Stone - 2015-04-27 2:47 PM
Not everyone likes wide nuts.
Tried my best to put that another way....
O...M...G.... I am learning - I put my pop back in the fridge when I decided to come and read these posts - Thank God I did! LOL!!!!! These last 3 would have been nose-snorters for sure!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | JS, that was funny |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think Beal also gets credit for "free ones" in terms of string preference, so do what you will with "wide nuts" and "free ones". |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I'm thinking the working man's guitar would be an A-braced deep bowl legend 1617 with modern electronics (Op-Pro Studio?). The sprucing up could include a hand-laid bowl, adamas suspended top and maybe some unique stain to the wood so it really stands out from the crowd. This would keep the costs down while making it special. And make some wide necks, for those of us who like big nuts.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well wide or skinny nuts, it doesn't matter, as long as it has string tubes.... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I've got some spare string tubes if anyone wants to buy them. $20 a set. I went crazy during the string tubes threads. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I assume Beal is also responsible for the brass nut on the UK2. That reminds me I have to replace mine. (The brass nut on the UK2.) |
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Location: SoCal | I think I have one in my pile of misc stuff. Shoot me your address Mark and I'll send it out. moody dot pi @ cox dot net |
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Location: SoCal | richard.parker - 2015-04-27 2:26 PM
I'm thinking the working man's guitar would be an A-braced deep bowl legend 1617 with modern electronics (Op-Pro Studio?). The sprucing up could include a hand-laid bowl, adamas suspended top and maybe some unique stain to the wood so it really stands out from the crowd. This would keep the costs down while making it special. And make some wide necks, for those of us who like big nuts.
Make it an adirondack spruce top. Always sorry when I put an A braced body on my old 77 Legend that I didn't go with a red spruce top.....
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