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Location: Jet City | One of the best emails I've ever received was in my inbox this morning...
"We are ready to ship the 1291-7..."
Thank you so much John and Company at the MS. I can't wait till it gets home!
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Location: northern virginia | Wow...you're one lucky man to have such a fine piece of Ovation history. :) |
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Location: Tennessee | Sweet. Long time loves burn the hottest.
Hey, just curious ... how come that's a -7 and not a -1? |
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Location: Jet City | I think it was always called "nutmeg" from the time I bought it new sometime in '82 I think.
I wish it would have been a white one that was hanging in Starland Music, but this one's done me right for the past 30 years.
It's a perfect example of what I touched on in another thread. I went to the store every day for a month and played the Preacher and the UKII. I fell in love with them over the Fenders and the rest. |
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Location: SoCal | What was Mother doing to it? |
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Location: Jet City | It fell over in it's case, on the front, while at a gig. The headstock cracked from the underside of the nut up to about the first set of tuners. It didn't split open all the way, and at first I didn't even notice anything but the fact it was so out of tune.
They fixed the crack. John says they re-did the finsh twice as well (didn't like how the first run came out).
He said it looks like a new neck, I can't wait to see it. I may decide to retire it from gigging. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | You'll have to give us a red blacket photo when it arrives. It will be wonderful. Damon, you mentioned your first guitar store trip. You'll like this story. It can only be told by old guys like me. My first guitar buying trip was, like many others, to a pawn shop with my dad. There were maybe 30 guitars in there, including, to the best of my recollection, a number of Gibsons and Fenders. The year was 1959 so you can only imagine which models were likely available. There wasn't anything over a few hundred dollars, a lot was under $100, and, of course, none of it was considered vintage back then. We walked out with my first guitar, a like new Silverton sunburst acoustic flat top, probably made by Harmony, for which my dad paid $20. It wasn't much, but it lasted me almost 20 years until I ran over it with a dirt bike in the desert one night. Too bad we didn't have more money back then. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Damon, are you even capable of taking a bad pohotograph? That one is just gorgeous! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | sweet it on its way home!!! |
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| I know that's your favorite Damon. Good to know it'll be ready for another 30. |
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Location: Jet City | It arrived yesterday! It better shape than before the damage for sure, It looks like a new neck, feels like a new neck, but it's the same one. Kim, John, and Co filled any divits, then refinished the entire thing. They must have replaced the nut as well because it's shiny new.
I'll get some pics up soon |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Cool Damon!!
I've a black one with a few bruises and chips.
I'm going to refinish it in pearl white
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Heart mended and on it's way home!
