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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'll have to check, but I think this Book Elite and a couple others may actually be screwed on.
It was only later that I found Standingovation was selling "Faux TRC" kits on ebay. The kit (actually just a freaking PDF file for $5.99) is just as Cliff states. Cut the threads off the screw heads and glue the screwheads to the holes in the TRC and then double face tape the TRC to the guitar.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | It would truly be a shame if screws were used to attach a fake TRC to a headstock that someone spent the extra's $'s to gloss. I've always considered the clean (no TRC) a signature element of earlier Ovations. The gloss, on this guitar especially, is a nice touch.
The TRC is kinda like putting a bumper sticker on a Ferrari. JMHO I hope it's just stuck on, then it would be clever... Like if those magnetic bandaides or bullet holes were put on a Ferrari. |
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Location: NJ | . . . I was thinking more like Playboy mud-flaps, but same idea. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Hey, the customization may turn some people off and may turn others on. In the end it's just a guitar.
I do like the Playboy mudflaps idea. Frankly I'm getting a little tired of the Yosemite Sam flaps currently on the Rover ...
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I have the Yosemite Sam mudflaps on my wood trailer. I'll bet it has been in the mud a lot more than the Rover has. Mudflaps in Arizona? Isn't that like ... I can't say that here. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It rained for about 10 minutes on my way through western Texas last week. Could call it "mud" I guess. Other than that the only water the car has seen has been in the car wash. |
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Location: Tennessee | You've gotta go on one of the Land Rover Off-Road adventures. We did it about 6 or 7 years ago with the Discovery. I guarantee water up to the doorsills, mud, and incredible terrain. It's absolutely unbelievable what these vehicles can do once they leave the pavement. Now back to your regularly scheduled program. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Then someone buys one and it never leaves the pavement again. Something like 95% of 4 wheel drive vehicles in the US never leave pavement. If I wanted a real off road vehicle, I'd get a VW Thing like you have. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Fancy SUVs are like brazilian rosewood guitars - nobody buys them because they "need" one, you just want to be able to say you "have" one. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'd rather say I have a VW Thing. At least you could have been driving a Cayenne. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
At least you could have been driving a Cayenne. EDITED.
My original comment about the size of one's male anatomy vs. the likihood the he might be driving a porsche would have gotten me a vacation. Or at least pissed off a few friends. Mark, Bobbo I didn't really mean it. But you know, it's just sort of an urban myth ... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It would be better with Toby on the TRC. |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
But you know, it's just sort of an urban myth ... Pure myth. Now ... those guys that put truss rod covers where they don't need 'em, well ... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I kind of enjoy being the you know what on the inside, if you remember the old joke. I know you really wanted the Porsche, Dave, but you were trying to get over your rounded, curvey, cool phase and were going for flat and boxy. Or was that your guitars? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Ooo, that's a good comeback. I may have to work on this for awhile ...
Yes guitars have definitely gotten flat and boxy. But hardly uncool.
Actually I remember discussing cayennes vs. rovers over brats at lunch, right? They're nice but I just don't have the interest to choose out of 600 different options and configurations. Just give me one model this is it, comes with everything standard nothing to decide, done deal. But I'm probably in the minority. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I remember the discussion. I don't fault your choice. We have a Honda Pilot. A sexy SUV in an oxymoron. |
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Location: Tennessee | It's all good. Rover and Porsche cohabitate nicely in my world. So do roundbacks and flatbacks. And curvy stuff too. Get the right ones for the right job and they all do their own things best. Even the VW Thing. :cool:
Has anyone bought this guitar yet? Sheesh, it's a book guitar! Pre-Fender. With the sexy and cool outies. Optima preamp, too. The gloss neck just makes it better. The Ultimate Ovation? Could be. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I went through several high-end European sports cars/sedans. Never again. Paying maintenance costs on Italian cars at the Ferrari dealership got old real quick. I still love the gloss mods, Toby. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | ... you should see the gloss neck on the mando.
About car repairs, yup the costs add up. That's why I only do leases. Three years full maintanence and then I'm out of it into a new one. Steady monthly cash flow, no highs and lows and in the last 15 years I've spent $0. out of pocket on service. Currently on my 9th consecutive lease, always two in parallel.
I think for people looking for pre-owned sometimes cars coming back off lease can be a great deal. The previous owner can't run up big miles and has to keep it in good shape. Literally last week turned in my wifes car after 3 years and it's only got 13k miles on it. Not a mark of use or wear anyplace. Don't think it ever strayed more than 25 miles from our house. Who ever picks that one up is getting an absolute creampuff. I thought about buying it at the end of the lease but owning a piece of depreciating iron isn't something that appeals to me. Hey Moody, I was half way to your house picking up her new one (Palm Springs). We should have met up and lent you a real guitar.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | So you should have leased a Porsche so I could buy your lease return that you babied for 3 years. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Just give me one model this is it, comes with everything standard nothing to decide, done deal. But I'm probably in the minority. It all started a coupla decades ago... with Free Automatic Transmission and Air Conditioning.
"Can I get a standard transmission, no A/C and roll-up windows?"
"That'll be extra!"
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Dave and Trader Jim should start a guitar leasing company. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | GUITAR IS SOLD.
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For Sale: 1768 LTD BOOK ELITE - CUSTOM GLOSS NECK
