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Location: south east Michigan | How many is enough?
We may want more but do we need more?
Relative to your specific wants/needs, vote for what fits you best.
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Location: boulder | this one was to easy....love grows/fades, investments rise/fall, but guitars are always there to give the gift of music... |
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Location: Tampa, FL | All of the above, depending on day of the week, moon phase and the magnitude of the cash vector in the GAS account. |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Yes, the question is whether I'll be able to get what I want (a contour bowl LX with an Adamas CVT top with Q soundholes (or any soundholes other than the epaulets)), or I'll get what the Factory comes up with that's closest to what I really want. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The size of my collection is steadily DECREASING. FD14 and D18VS get almost all the play time lately. Dave |
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Location: Tennessee | The OFC is the only other Ovation I must have, but chances are there is more than just one in my future. Who knows how many ... and not just Ovations. Some may also leave the fold ... |
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Location: south east Michigan | dmkozak....I trust that Ovation will offer just what you want in time. Maybe lots of time...but in time.
Me??? I'm in the "just one more" boat. It would be nice to have one of everything but that is not practical or affordable. I look at the herd stabled in my living room (5 if I include the uke) and I see one thing missing. A high end, multi-hole Ovation. I don't know exactly which one it will end up to be. The OFC model? :D a U681T??, the '06 koa collectors? I just don't know. That sunburst 1537 we are talking about sure looks nice. But if I felt that it was the one, I would have paid the BIN amount. If this going to be my "last" guitar, I want to make damn sure everything feels right when I pull the trigger. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I decided to not vote...my choice is "who knows?". I have to stay at nine guitars, which is where I am at now....it is "one in, one out". For there to be another, I have to give up something. I just sold my "token all-wood guitar", a Martin 000-16RGT, to get a 1771LX. For there to be another one, it will have to motivate me to sell one of the Os I have now.
I see nothing new at present that motivates me in that direction.
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4
1978 Legend 1617-4
1981 Glen Campbell 1118-1 12-string
2001 Adamas Melissa Etheridge MERB1598 12-string
2002 Collectors 2002-AC
2003 Legend 1777-NAT
2004 Balladeer GCS-771-C
2005 Collectors 2005-ES
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Location: Evansville,IN | I don't think you can ever have too many guitars. I have 6 now, and who knows how many more I will accumulate over the years. :D
The wife always says I don't need more that one, as I can only play one at a time. Some days I'm more in an acoustic mood, and other days I feel like making some noise and go electric. :D |
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Location: Edmond, Oklahoma | Does anyone here own a boat?
My much-more-experienced guitarist friend says the final defense to the wife is, "But, dear, I don't have a boat." And, talking to other friends who do have boats, I think he has a good point. Boat ownership seems to require a lot of cash outflow. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | "A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money". - John D. MacDonald |
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Location: Midland, MI | BOAT is an acronym that stands for 'Bring Out A Thousand,' which is what you do every time you go to the chandlery at your local marina. Or, so I'm told. Hasn't damped my sailboat enthusiasm, though. If only I could find 'the one.' Maybe I'll find an old Gretsch instead. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Iv'e had a couple boats.
Another truism is: The best two days of boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. |
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Location: Hernando Beach (Tampa area) | If you want to go through some real money, try on a little movie I made a couple years ago of my addiction (takes awhile to download for slow connects)
http://www.golddredgervideo.com/matt/ferry.wmv
I've had more than my share of boats as well, I justify the current boaterhome as an all-purpose boat, film facility, and travel-trailer (fridge-heater-diesel stove -- generator) and thusfar that seems to have everyone fooled.
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Location: Indiana | No, one is all I need. For the 10th time, no. Er, maybe just one or two or twenty-nine or so more. Gotta be a cure for this!
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | One can have too many guitars if there is no more room to put them!!!! That is where I am at....
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Location: south east Michigan | Here's another thing I have to concider. I know some of you just don't understand, but I get an emotional attachment to my guitars. In the past 35 years I have "let-go" of just one guitar. That was the Danelectro to buy the Trekker. Heck....I have even grown fond of of the Booted Celebrity!! It sits on a stand right next to my computer desk. |
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Location: SoCal | Wants and needs are two different things. I could pare my collection down to three and still be happy, knowing my NEEDS are taken care of. But I know there are more guitars out there that I WANT. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I ain't got GAS |
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| Have had as many as 12 at once now down to 3 in the house... plus one at the son's, two at the daughter's.
there's always room for one or two more... just for a taste of a different flavor for a while.
the guitars don't seem to bother Char much... it's the peripherals that pi$$ her off sometimes(most of the time)..amps, heads, cabs, cables, boxes, stands etc.. but then it's hard to keep all your goodies, 3 people, a dog and 3 cats neatly arranged in a storm-damaged 14x70 mobile home.
we are trying to find something larger and more solid but since the storms last year housing prices for what wasn't destroyed have went up almost 75%
she has gotten used to the picks in the dryer lint trap every load tho.
re: another Ovation in my future, one or two more moving in soon.
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God Bless
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Location: Edmond, Oklahoma | I hope there are more Ovations in my future. Now that I've finally found that they're my favorites in the acoustic world, constantly intrigued by new models. At this time, I'd love to add a Viper, an Adamas, and a 2005 Collector's. But, like other people here, I've finally achieved critical mass. From this point, I have to seriously consider letting an instrument go, in order to bring in a new one. And I'm also attached to all 7 of them... except and not counting the Martin Backpacker, but it doesn't take up much space anyway. Then there are the three electric basses and the mandolin. And dulcimer. And Hammer dulcimer. And Autoharp. And I probably forgot something.
Unless my wife decides hanging guitars in the hallway is cool (and I kind of partial to the idea), I'm kind of maxed out on space. Also, there are cases to consider. And I haven't even bought a pro amp yet. Like Glenn says, peripherals add up, too. And I've barely scratched the possibilities there. |
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Location: Keller, TX | It would be interesting to see GN-Nick's response to this poll. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I just want to upgrade everything I have to Adamas. The only Standard Ovations I'll hang on to are my 1537 and 1879. As it stands, I still need to replace the 12-string and the acoustic bass, and maybe add an Adamas I or II side-by-side, THEN I should be happy. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | ... I'm sorry, I lied ... I'm sure I will also keep my Fender Jazz Bass also. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | The answer is:
...one more... |
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Is there another Ovation in your future?
