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Location: SoCal | Let's see, with AAA spruce and A brace...might as well have a carved bridge, carved truss rod cover, brown bowl, ? brown case, and throw in abalone...sounds like a 2015 (or 2016) Anniversary Custom Legend. After all, the 30th Anniv CL was in 2004. This would be to celebrate the 1st year.
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Location: Cicero, NY | A wide neck, Adi topped, A or Quintad braced CL, Op-Pro with abalone over an ebony fretboard and carved bridge and TRC...yikes, I'm in. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Sure ya are Wease. You can bring it to the next suspect gathering.
Oh wait.... |
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Location: Colorado | +1 on the 1 3/4. Slotted headstock for a stronger break angle. Adi top. Deep Bowl. a dark nutmeg...with just the right amount of Abalone....Not too fancy on the electronics....I always thought the OP 24 was just about right....quick to use.....wouldn't mind a GAS/Boost button....and get it in the hands of the pros...and the usual suspects will follow. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | immoody - 2015-04-27 5:33 PM
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
Thanks, but I already got the nut from John. I just have to put it on. |
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Location: SoCal | Agree, and a slothead!
However, by now, probably at least $2,600 or higher. For the workingman? Is that someone like Cliff, Temp, and a few others (at least as a percentage of OFC'ers).
In the beginning for the first OFC, number of members gave input as to the cost...that one (granted a slothead Adamas) was $5,000. Majority of the OFC couldn't participate due to the cost. Limited run better again be very small.
Al still has a couple of new old stock (NOS) slothead Koa at about $2,100 that he was encouraged to have made. Some are always negative about Koa even if they have never played one. I have five Koa which are keepers. |
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Location: Jet City | Pardon me for dreaming for a moment....
Urelite over an aluminum frame, 24 fret bound ebony fingerboard with easy access up high, built in piezo and GK3 pickups, coupled with redesigned (really no need to) neck and bridge vintage Ovation pickups (UKII in the bridge, Viper single in the neck) for a total of 4 pickups.
The OFC UK IV |
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Location: Jet City | and a brass nut |
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Location: NJ | If yer gonna' design a guitar for the "Working Musician", how about putting in a preamp that actually f@ckin'WORKS.
th'LastCouple have been absolutely Atrocious . . . |
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Location: Cicero, NY | stephent28 - 2015-04-27 7:48 PM
Sure ya are Wease. You can bring it to the next suspect gathering.
Oh wait....
Better yet, I'll bring it to the Factory Gathering for you. Oh wait... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | cliff d. - 2015-04-28 5:00 PM
If yer gonna' design a guitar for the "Working Musician", how about putting in a preamp that actually f@ckin'WORKS.
th'LastCouple have been absolutely Atrocious . . .
Apart from the have-to-plug-in-to-use-the-tuner design error, my three VIPs have been flawless. What's gone wrong with yours? |
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Location: NJ | Koa "BlowHole" 12-Fret:
3 VIP's
Intermittently "CuttingOut".
I'm now on my 2nd OpPro Studio.
They're ALL "Nice PreAmps", but not effectively "RoadWorthy".
I continually play 4-Hour Gigs 2-3 Times a Week (sometimes more).
I'm contemplating going Direct-Out to an Out-Board Unit.
I've got a '76 CustomBalladeer with the original FET-3.
I can't remove the Unit from th'Guitar, because the MountingScrews are rusted-solid from MySweat from Playing since I bought th'Guitar(NEW),
which is just as well since the only way I could "Kill" that PreAmp would be to run-it-over with My friggin'Car (and even THEN, I'd probably have to "BacKOver" it again to Finish th'Job . . . .
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well this was good, we got Cliff back out for a bit. The plug in to see the tuner, real stupid move there, but I still prefer the OP24 although the one I have on the 2080D works pretty well. Then again I did have the 5 presets reprogrammed to be from that guitar with a different mic each time.
Everyone has a different idea on what the guitar should be, I don't care, just offer it with 1 3/4. Other than that make it really good sounding and make it something that is easy for DW to hit a home run on the first offering. They need that to start strong. |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | I've often thought about a "modern" 1538.
Layered headstock/buttplate and incuse epis, like my C2078, but symmetrical like the 1537/38.
Oh, and in a sweet Ovation burst, or natural or honey like the anniversary model.
I'd pay a lot for that... |
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Location: Indiana | I'm with Beal on the OP24. Still a great, battery-sippin' pre. |
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Location: SoCal | I'm happy with an OP Pro, but then it's mostly just an updated OP 24...... |
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I mostly alternate between the VIP and Studio in my Koa. Haven't had the problems Cliff has, but don't play anywhere near as much.
On the other hand, the Optima in my 1581 and OP-24 in my '87 are both 20-30 years old and still going strong!
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | OP-24 is simple and the batteries last forever.
As to colors, New England Burst is the shiite.
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Location: Jet City | My OpPro Studio is WAY HOTTER than the rest of my preamps which is a bad thing actually. I always have to adjust settings on the rig when I plug that guitar in. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | OP24 is my favorite but that OP50 you put in that black Legend you sold me is pretty spectacular too. As a matter of fact I was just playing with a 1982 Custom Legend in black that a guy brought down from Rapid City to show me and he had sent it back to the factory to get an OP50 installed. While it was there they buffed out any scratches and basically gave it a full spa treatment. It looks brand new. I'm trying to talk him into selling it to me.  |
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Location: SoCal | For the electric crazies (praise, not negative), and my inspiration from the 1984C, has anyone considered (not an OFC guitar but a suggested limited run, later production model) of a super shallow bowl, appropriate pro-level electronics (not my background), single cutaway, f holes, and an arch top?? YES, an arch top!
To bring back the similar designs of the Les Paul and Strat (solid body) would just be lost against the store's Fender and Gibson's imposed inventory. Taylor and Ovation came out with a hybrid acoustic and electric but this would be a true electric. I suppose you could create a pre-amp where you dialed in an acoustic sound but that would be additional costs, poor acoustic, and extended development. |
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Location: Jet City | Really, with the GK3 installed, the piezo isn't necessary. The Roland will get as good if not better acoustic tone. So 3 pickups... A UK3 (which if YOU MUST compare would be more Tele shaped, but is still different). Carved or arched like the original UKII would be a nice touch too. Or maybe something neckthru like my Odyssey... 
I do like the SSB idea though.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Nice ideas, not going to happen. Need something that screams Ovation from across the showroom. Needs to be something that they can sell a ton of right away, be successful on the first swing of the bat. Is there an echo in here? Hello?? .?? |
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Location: Jet City | damon67 - 2015-04-27 9:17 PM Pardon me for dreaming for a moment.... I know it ain't gonna happen with electrics again... pipe dreams... emphasis on the pipe I still like the idea of an SSB. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | cwk2 - 2015-04-28 7:35 PM
Nice ideas, not going to happen. Need something that screams Ovation from across the showroom. Needs to be something that they can sell a ton of right away, be successful on the first swing of the bat. Is there an echo in here? Hello?? .??
High end, mid-range, or low end????
If Adamii would be too expensive to make right off the bat, and let's not go to Applause or Celebrity status, then the one that would SCREAM OVATION across a room would be a Custom Legend with some re-introductory bling!
Just my .02, but the Custom Legend out shines, catches your eye, more than anything else in a room, or on a stage. (I just want another Custom Legend!!! LOL!!!)
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