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Location: Lake, Mi | I have a Balladeer and on the registration card it claims to be a 1861-TB. I find no reference to this color code. The serial # is 491238. I had recieved e-mails from Mike Adams. He seemed puzzled as well. Any info would be a great thing.
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i would suspect that the "B" is for burst as in "TDB" which is teardrop burst according to ovation. the T alone as in TH is transparent (honey). what color is it? maybe teal or turquoise? the serial number makes it a 1995 according to ovations list, so maybe a misprint or a custom color? |
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Location: Lake, Mi | The color fades from outer to inner from a cherry wood color to a dark blonde in a tear drop fashion. Because the paper work came from Ovation I am doudting a missprint unless it was suppossed to be a TDB. But I had thought the TDB had a black outer. :confused: Thanks for your input though. Maybe somebody remembers if the code used to be TB instead of TDB. :eek: |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | What about tobacco-burst ?? Just a guess |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Tamale-burst |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i saw a tamale burst once. lots of spicey pork tamales followed by too much tequila and warm beer. i sure hope your guitar looks better than that did. |
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Location: Scotland | Too much Tequila..... sounds good to me. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Depends if it's gold or white. The gold tequilla and the beer would give it more of a yellowed center. White teq would make it look a little washed out, n'est pas? |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | tequila prices have gone through the roof down here with the better aged stuff costing way more than imported scotch. when we first started traveling here tequila was around $1 a liter for white and a good gold or aged was about$2 now it is around 10 times as much. however you can buy everclear (190 proof cane alcohol) for under $2 today. the usa has been on the tequila and corona kick for more than a decade. come to think of it, there are probably tamale bursts all over the usa too. is the mexican fad big in the uk too? we sure see a number of sailors here from the uk. most on a circumnavigation. |
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Location: UK | Oh yes Mex, i have here in my house a squat brown bottle of Jose Cuervo Anejo , Extra aged 100% de Agave (whatever that means?)
Its definately good kicking juice :D Not much left now after me and and a friend dug into it, we just couldnt finish the bottle off, as other liquids had passed our throats that nite :D He had to be carried home :cool: i just passed out out on my floor :p
I do like some gold tho,even the worms taste ok after a few. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Is it true that if you eat the worm you can talk to God? |
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Location: UK | Well apparantly you can, but usually through the great white telephone :D |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | bill, you can talk to anybody by the time you get to the worm, but only god would be able to understand what you are saying. and the funny part is by the time you started at the top and got all the way to the worm ALL women look like goddesses. you might fall in love and find a 200 pounder flipping your tortillas the next morning. not good with a tequila hangover. us gringos sometimes call it "ta kill ya"
the stuff with the worm was traditionally "mezcal". it is even more damgerous than tequila and is always drunk straight with salt and lime. they both made from the agave which is a huge cactus. when you cut off all of the leaves there is a hig as a barrel core that they squeeze to make tequila. the worms are found in the core and are really the grub of some flying thing. the blue agave is what the most expensive tequila comes from. lots of weird stuff is fermented down here and to this day there are vendors that pass our house with big gourds full of the local pineapple jack hanging from a shoulder yoke. kind of like a wine. nothing goes unused here. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I've also heard that after mass consumption one can talk chineese. Your description of the morning after gives new meaning to Tamale-burst |
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Location: Lake, Mi | You guys are killing me... I go away for a few days and you have a Tamale-burst party with out me. I should have known better .... Hey Mex ya got any of that "ta kill ya" left it's been a long month and I deserve a 200 pounder flippin over something or another. Those little ones always look like thier gonna get broke any ways.
and thanks again you guys are the best later |
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Location: RI. That small State out East | A guy asks a simple question and a party breakes out. Let's see, To Be, Oh Yea, That is the question. Or was it, Not T B.
I've got to go.
Woz |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's a common thread, guitars, cars and tamale-bursts. It makes the world go round (back) |
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Balladeer 1861-TB ????? -TB ?????
