|
|
Joined:
January 2003
Posts: 2
Location: Hendersonville, NC | Help! I bought an ultra in Sacramento (brand new) in Feb of 92 and I'm just now needing a new saddle, anyway the serial number is 247697, model #1528-5M, I can't find the model# on any ovation website (the finish is a greyish birds-eye maple) with a black lacquer neck. the ovation website says it was built in 1982!!! that's impossible! I still have the bill of sale. I've never seen a finish like it anywhere. Someone help me figure this out! Maybe I can send one of you experts a photo. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
August 2002
Posts: 8307
Location: Tennessee | Welcome to the OFC, Joel. The reason your serial number doesn't match up is that the S/N listing only applies to USA made Ovations. Your Ultra was no doubt built in Korea (check on the label inside the bowl). Ovation put some very interesting veneers on the tops of the Ultras, I've seen a few that are similar to yours. They can be very pretty.
Replacing the saddle should be easy. Let the board know what electronics package is in the guitar and someone will be able to zero in on what you need to do. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2003
Posts: 43
| The serial #'s on the Ovation website are for USA Ovations. The Ultra is an Import, similar to the Celebrity. Send me a photo if you wish and I will see what I can tell you. If you want to see what I am working on right now, go to:
http://www.overacker.com/ovationrestorations.htm
I'll help you if I can.
Photogazer |
|
| |
|
Joined:
February 2002
Posts: 5750
Location: Scotland | The earliest Ultras were USA-made but by '92 were imports. If the guitar has the original wide ovation pickup I have replacement saddles, email your address & I'll send one out. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005
Location: Las Cruces, NM | If there is an Ovation "Lone Ranger" it has to be Paul T.. "Who is that masked man?" "Hiyoh Silver away, (and here is the part you needed)" |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | Of course, if he was in the East Village it would be "Who WAS that masked man . . . I'd like to SPANK him!" |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005
Location: Las Cruces, NM | Hey Cliff
Paul T has put a lot of good advice on this board and has proven to be a serious and dedicated musician. There is no reason to find ways to criticize contributors, if you want to express disgust, look to Congress and the bureaucracy. You are on one side of the equation and he may be another, but if you were faced with living or dying I'm sure he would help you live, until you've faced that dying moment don't judge anyone. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
February 2002
Posts: 5750
Location: Scotland | Bailey, take it easy, I didn't take offence at that, it isn't a critisism, just humour (almost)
Anyway, last time I was in the east Village I got a better result from wearing a leather cap rather than a mask. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | Bailey;
In NO WAY was I criticizing Master Templeman.
I would be the first to agree with you that Paul has been a font of useful information and insight and is always willing to help and does so expeditiously. Paul was also a major benefactor in a philanthropic project that he, I and some other members were involved in. He is truly a major credit to this Board.
In conversations I've had with Paul I've discovered that he and I share somewhat of a similar "twisted" sense of humor.
My statement was intended as a "joke" (and a joke directed at the East Village - not Paul).
He obviously got it. You obviously didn't. But that's okay.
I apologize for any seemingly intended dispatch of ill will. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 15686
Location: SoCal | Well if you guys won't rip on Paul T., then I will. He wears fairly ugly Hawaiian shirts (if you are going to wear a Hawaiian shirt make certain that they are truly ugly like mine), he makes me feel bad as a guitar player (us mortals should not be around that good a player), and he has crappy taste in friends (hey, in California, he was hanging around with a low class of person -- just ask my neighbors!).
Somehow in re-reading this post it seems to come across with a different than intended meaning. I'm gonna have to think about this over my morning beer. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005
Location: Las Cruces, NM | Cliff
My posts have not been examples of moderation and restraint, my sense of humor has been called worst than twisted, no need to apologize, I just find myself agreeing with that Englishman pretty often, I just wish they would drive on the right side of the road. I have found myself agreeing with you frequently so I will apologize if I seemed to lecture. I have been a little harsh since I got kicked in the ass by a pickup and forced to face my aged condition, but I am recovering well and hope to enter a marathon soon. I had the chutspah to ask the doctor if I would be able to play the fiddle after my accident, he said "I don't see why not" I said "Great, I sure couldn't play it before". Please don't send me the retribution I deserve.
Bailey |
|
| |
help
