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Location: Sydney, Australia | One of the features that Ovation guitars have is a "feel good" factor. When playing one (or just owning it) you identify with the product.
What other products do people feel this way about? For me it is Apple Mac: I get a smug, superior type feeling knowing I am better than all the Windows sheep out there. (Sorry guys but it's true).
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Location: Melbourne Australia | I would have to say it is all my old vinyl albums and singles. It's the best thing having people around having drinks and then about 1:00am bring out the old stuff - it really gets the party going :D |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Not #1 on my list, but echoing the opening post - Apple Macs, but I'm not the 'evangelist' I used to be. If someone wants to know why I use one I'll tell them. Otherwise I avoid the argument and just say nothing with the same smug knowing grin that Richard has.
#2 FirstDirect Bank in the UK - best banking service in the world. The ONLY thing I miss about England, other than its proximity to France.
#3 Ovations - Playing an 'O' goes hand in hand with using a Mac really.
#4 My Subaru Liberty (Legacy) - 'nuff said.
There IS something else... but I've just had a brainfreeze. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Ditto on Mac. The single best thing I ever did.
Others in consideration would be
- Waverly tuners
- Park headset installation press
- Stax electrostatic earspeakers
- Ariens lawnmower
- Delongi toaster oven
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Location: GA USA | 1) CDs, recordings by my kid or my friends.
2) Original art. I know it's nerdy, but original comic book art is striking visually, and often very affordable.
3) Ipod, even if it's just a Nano.
4) Memory-foam pillow.
5) A good dog.
6) A great album. Right now it's Ryan Adams' new one, Cardinology. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | - My Shure in-ear headphones
- Everything Capt. L. said except for the pillow - never tried one |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My Toro snow blower and a beat-up '73 Honda CT90 that gets about 125 mpg around town. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Situationally speaking, Charmin. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Our bed. It's one of those space age foam deals. Absolutely love it. |
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Location: Utah | Sig Sauer firearms. Their motto is "To Hell and Back Reliability", and it is true. Handgun of choice for the Secret Service and the Navy SEALs. I also own a K98 rifle manufactured by Sauer & Sohn in Germany in 1943. A damn fine piece of engineering and workmanship that was standard issue to the German army in WWII. I can hit a two-torso sized target at 1000 yds, with open sights.
A Swiss K-31 rifle also from 1943. Like a fine Swiss watch, but louder. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that a Swiss infantryman sat up in the artillery HQ in the mountains keeping the Nazis from sweeping through Switzerland and using it as a invasion and supply route. It is at least as accurate as the K98.
Lee roloading presses, to make ammunition for the above mentioned guns. Costs less, works great, makes ammunition as good as or better than any other brand. Kinda like a good Ovation, the brand gets no love from various snobs, but the proof is in the results.
Apple Mac. 'nuf said there already.
Dunkin' Donuts brand ground coffee. Even though we can't get good donuts out here, at least we can have a great cup of coffee. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | 1. The Ovations
2. Porsches, and before that a 91 BMW Mtechnic and a 79 VW Convertible. Maybe I should have just said convertibles.
3. I guess an 1100 square foot garage isn't a product. A Makita cordless drill. It's outlasted and outworked a bunch of more powerful and newer cordless drills.
4. A Baume and Mercier watch. I won it and it was really the only extravagant thing I owned. Then it was stolen. |
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Location: Jet City | 1. The gear. Ovations being the biggest part
2. My Chevy truck
3. My Mac (would have been above the truck prior to MobileMe)
4. Wine... lots of it! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | My wife and my kids....
Everything else is just stuff.... |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'm with ya on the Chevy truck thing.
I'm enjoying the HD flat screen.
Material gizmos and keepsakes come and go. I still have a couple toys from my youth but it's my guitars, especially the old Breadwinner and Balladeer, that I prize the most of all. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | My mind.
I miss it so...... |
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Location: Wichita, KS | 1. My Macs. I am impressed by how many on this forum agree.
2. My dogs. I agree with the Captain on this one.
3. My Mazda Tribute. After 20 years of driving what my then-spouse chose, I finally got the vehicle that _I_ wanted. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by FlySig:
I can hit a two-torso sized target at 1000 yds, with open sights. Dunkin' Donuts brand ground coffee. But maybe not at the same time? ;) |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
My wife and my kids....
Everything else is just stuff.... I feel the same way altho' they're not really "products".
My Ovations
My 08 Mazda 3 wagon. Looked at the comparable Audi's and couldn't see spending 10k more. This car was built for me. I'll have it at least 10 years.
My iPod nano. Took me a long time to come around and get one. Then I got an iTouch. It was recently stolen and I got an iPod. Suits me much more and carries all my music with room for more. |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | It's amazing that most of us are, in a certain extent "represented" by guitars, cars and computers .. even if not in this order. These things speak for us and let us feel better for sure. These things are our flag.
1) my Ovation guitars
2) my 1992 Volvo 245 SW Polar
3) my beagle dog
The list is not in order of importance. |
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Location: SoCal | It's not surprising that our guitars are that important to us. One of the reasons we're here is that they mean a lot to each of us. If they meant less, then we wouldn't be on this board.... |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Originally posted by MusicMishka:
My wife and my kids....
Everything else is just stuff.... I feel the same way altho' they're not really "products".
1) My Ovation. Everytime a guitar-playing friend comes over to play, and I put it in their hands, they gush about it.
2) I agree with the Dunkin Donuts coffee. We were using Illy Cafe (too expensive), and the Dunkin Donuts is at least as good, IMHO.
3) My kids. They bring so much joy to my life. Indescribable... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I kindof like all my things equally, but I guess certain items I do appreciate the feel, a bit more than others.
- My Neal Moser Bich and Genesys guitars.
- My Ovation's
- Moto Guzzi Motorcycles, in general, just fit me.
- Gotta agree on SIG-Sauer handguns.. Just sold one and can't wait to get it's replacement. Not a big "gun nut" as they say, but quality engineering is quality engineering.
- Wish I could get on the MAC bandwagon. I've been working with computers professionally for 30+ years. Programming, Using, designing, repairing... Everytime I try to drink the coolaide... I end up spitting it out.
I guess it's appropriate I put MAC's on my "NOT" list... The theme for me is I am and always will be a Connecticut Yankee. Even in keep tradition of the early days, I migrated to the Pacific Northwest.
A Connecticut Yankee appreciates fine engineering, taking what already works, and making it better, with a focus on bang-for-buck.
Are most MAC's built better than most PC's. Sure... $2000 better... sorry.. no.
I feel the same about lets say a basic PRS or a Basic Hamer. There are some nice things on a PRS... But they aren't $$$$$$'s nicer, and could in fact have those "extra's" put on a Hamer for still less.
I like Carvin, Hamer and Ovation guitars for the same reason. The OFC Adamas, and the package that came with it... I actually felt like I got a good deal... almost a bargain. Truly "bang for buck".
So I guess that's what does it for me. Show me something with lots of "bang for the $" and built well... and I'll probably be a fan. |
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| My little Diesel Volkswagon. Built and Bought it new in 2001, has 200,000 on it now and it still moves along great at 49 MPG. Still has the original battery.
Outdoor wood fired boiler, it heats two homes for me. Put it in for $11,000 in 2002 and for ten cords of unsplit wood per/yr $100 per cord it paid for itself last year. This year I am making money on it.
My Adamas's |
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Location: South of most, North of few | My family and my beliefs. The O's , Martins and drums follow. The rest is just expendable crap. |
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Location: Michigan | I go for...
Chevy Trucks
My 1953 Ford 600 tractor w/loader
Fine rifles and over & under shotguns
My toolboxes & quality american made tools
Canadian beer & a hand rolled smoke ;)
A good Lazy boy
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