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Location: Houston, Texas | Oh! Very nice. It's close to the spitting image of mine. How's the paint on the back? Mine is just about mint with zero dings and dents, but the bowl paint is peeling badly around the hatch cover. The balance, resonance and sustain of these guitars are just amazing.
The key thing to remember about uploading pictures to the gallery is not to exceed 100kb per pic.
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| That sold fast, less than 2 days..It seems the 1537/1547 have become 'THE' collectible Ovation guitar...(I know it had to go for more than the advertised price :) ) Congratulations Georgia boy! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The advertised price was very reasonable. About a year ago these were going for over $1000 in decent condition. One went for about $1250 on ebay and the paint was peeling off the back. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Good get Phil.
Bad news though, you still NEED a U681T, or perhaps a A1/A2 for the textured top... preferably acoustic only (#47) and *something* with a 12 fret wide neck (do you like koa?) ... Oh, and a center hole model, with perhaps just the FET PRE-AMP and an endpin jack. In fact you NEED to have at least one pre-amp from each generation: Two knobber, stacked knob, OP-24/Optima, OP-30/50, OP-PRO/studio/VIP5.
Am I helping your GAS problem?? :p :D :p :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | One of each size bowl, nylon and a cedar top. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Hold on, Fred were still on our honeymoon. I don't want her getting jealous this early in the relationship. But I see what you mean!!! |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Dear Fugot, THANK YOU! for directing this guitar to the OFC! :DPhil :D
I've bonded with this guitar for a week now,and all I can say is "totally amazing!" It truly is the Grand Daddy of the 1778LX. I find myself doing side by side comparisons quite frequently, and the verdict is: The same thing, but A LOT MORE of IT! The 1537 is my reference guitar for the woodtop, multi soundhole genre, period! Thanks also to the collective wisdom of the OFC. In the Light there is more Light! |
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Location: Orange County, California | I think they dumbed down every Elite after the 1537 in an effort to preserve their limited supply of pure MoJo extract... Exceptions include the '87 Collectors
and a few others.
Phil,
You can now only go "up" to satisfy GAS. The bar is set high.
Have fun. |
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Location: boulder | Hey philmaxx,
You are more then welcome. I am glad it worked out for everyone--but fred is right, you can only go up and it's hard to top the 1537's. (contour bowl).........peace mike |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Yeah Mike, move up and over to a cutaway or composite top, I still have GAS, for a black AdamasII, my long lost '84 Collector, a Franken-utte, etc.
For anyone who keeps such statistics, the 1537 sold in 16hrs, seller was impressed, would have been sooner but I didn't check the board the night before. I suppose I could've missed the boat altogether! Thank GOD! |
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FS/FT: Vintage Elite 1537 1st yr. production
