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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | xraiderman - 2015-05-12 12:20 AM
I believe the crew in New Hartford should pick the 50th!
That is a GREAT Idea!!!! They are the ones who have made them for us for 50 years, let them design us something will mean something special to them (and us). GREAT Idea Bill!
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | xraiderman - 2015-05-12 12:11 AM
Right Now Ovation is 99% cutaways, do you think there will be demand for non cutaways?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | everyone thinks #47 was Charlie's favorite. wrong. it was just the one that was at the factory so that was the one they copied, saying it was his favorite was marketing rhetoric, other wise known as spoo. If it was his favorite why was it at the factory and #35 was at his house? In the music room? But hey what do I know, i just used to run a gas station for airplanes. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | tough choice what to come out with first, good luck on that one. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | FlySig - 2015-05-12 8:31 AM
... I suggest a Glen Campbell reissue. It is one great sounding guitar, with the tie in to the first star performer to bring the brand to public attention. It would provide a marketing angle as a tribute to one of the very great performers of the last 50 years as well as a tribute to the early history of Ovation and the innovations which launched Ovation into nearly instant adoption by so many top performers...
I was thinking the same thing FlySig (yes, be afraid, very afraid...) That a Glen Campbell Tribute would be a nice guitar to issue/re-issue. Glen's wife was up here last week for an Alzheimer's Benefit, (she is a Lovely Lady), and was talking about Glen and the disease. Since Glen did SO much to make Ovation a household name, perhaps a really nice Glen Campbell Tribute guitar could be made (maybe Beal could have input on what Glen liked best, I believe they were friends), and DW could contribute a small percentage of the sales, or make a donation to the Alzheimer's Foundation to help towards finding a cure.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You could just take all the 40th anniversary models that never sold and put a new sticker on them that says 50th anniversary |
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Location: Munich, Germany | I would buy one of those in a heartbeat! |
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Location: Pueblo West, CO | Personally, for a 50th, I would reissue the original shiny bowl Balladeer with the original X brace, but use gold hardware and special top wood and binding/purfling.
Something like what was done on the 87C, Book Elite and/or Nagao CL with abalone purfling around the body and up the sides of the fretboard. Then, use gold MOP inlay for the Ovation and Balladeer logo.
If you want to do something really cool, use torrefied top wood so the guitar looks and sounds like it's 50 years old.
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Location: Jet City | Personally, I'd like to see an original slotted reissue WITH electronics... wide and skinny nuts. You can't find one of these anywhere, or for that matter an OFC 1 or the Adamas 08c... I've been lookin.
And just to be different... How about a reissue solid body? The return of the Deacon/Breadwinner (do a Breadwinner in blue!)
Whatever you do for a 50th, give'r a shiny bowl as a nod to 50 years ago. Maybe a shiny contour bowl... 50 years ago meets today.
I don't see any reason for another Campbell reissue (unless it's a Bluebird). Let's move forward. I'm sure I'm in the minority on this site with that thought though.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Reopen the custom shop and everybody can have just about whatever one-off model they want. I like Bill's idea to let our friends in the repair shop come up with an idea. I also like the idea of a 1537 reissue. I have prototypes for both the 1537 and 1547, and both are in SSB configuration. The 1537 prototype actually has an Adamas logo headstock and is rare as a non-cutaway SSB. I like to think of them as non-identical twins. |
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Location: south east Michigan | 1537... but with inlaid eppys. |
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Location: Jet City | Brad Durasa - 2015-05-12 8:05 AM 1537... but with inlaid eppys. And better preamp |
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Location: south east Michigan | And offered in both blonde & burst |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Wouldn't that be like one of those wood top Adamaii that you could buy lately? |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Brad Durasa - 2015-05-12 11:05 AM 1537... but with inlaid eppys. 
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Location: SoCal | Staffing of the new production line will be determined by DW. However, some of the old staff have probably already moved to new jobs. Having been burned by the sale to Fender, they may feel it is better not to chance another change.
As to "xraiderman - 2015-05-12 12:20 AM
I believe the crew in New Hartford should pick the 50th!"
Those with historical knowledge may not be on the payroll.
As to inlaid, the 2006C (Koa) had a inlaid flame maple epaulet and did not have the sales that it might have had with non-inlaid. Cutaway Elite, beautiful AAA Koa, VIP pre-amp, contour bowl, tortoise shell-like binding, etc. Good industry reviews but to some, the inlaid gave the top a 'flat' look. On that, I would agree with it side by side with my other Ovation Koa guitars. It looks more like a laminate top with the inlaid.
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Location: Nashville TN. | xraiderman - 2015-05-12 12:11 AM
Right Now Ovation is 99% cutaways, do you think there will be demand for non cutaways?
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As to "xraiderman - 2015-05-12 12:20 AM
I believe the crew in New Hartford should pick the 50th!"
Those with historical knowledge may not be on the payroll.
Oh, I would guess that a few with historical knowledge are still there....... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Last night I was playing my K-1111 RI.
Just now I was playing my 1114 Folklore.
There is something nice about a Deep Bowl with round shoulders and no cutaway.
Yeah, a cutaway is nice for playing high on the neck... which I rarely do.
And electronics are nice for annoying the neighbors.
But the first Ovations that I saw were totally acoustic Balladeers that did well in the park.
You can still put electronics in a fat deep bowl. I put a Shadow nanoflex under the saddle with preamp in the soundhole.
Outta sight outta mind... until I need it. (in the Folklore, not the K-1111)
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Location: south east Michigan | Woodbox dreads that are cut-away look... well... awful.
Somehow Ovation pulls off the cut-away dreadnought..
I think my DiMeola looks great. But I'd never want every guitar I own to be a cut-away.
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If at the time Fender shut it down 99% of models were cut-aways we better not get our hopes up to high for any of the older style bowls. At least anytime soon. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | 99% of the models were cutaways, maybe to attract electric players.
99% had electronics too.
Y'all remember when an acoustic guitar was an Acoustic Guitar.
Yeah, I play Acoustic-style... But I plug into an amp any time I am "playing out".
But I am fighting traffic noise. (excuses, excuses)
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| I was just watching the McCartney "Wings Over America" concert on Bluray. How about a reissue that sweet looking custom legend he was playing? I don't know the model number. Anyone own one of those? Whatever would be selected would have to be built with a marketing plan in mind, not just something a few people on this site might want to see. |
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Location: SoCal | They did that in 2004 with the 30th Anniversary Custom Legend..... |
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Location: SoCal | They did that in 2004 with the 30th Anniversary Custom Legend..... |
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