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chrishooksbass |
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Joined: February 2009 Posts: 3 Location: cincinnati | hello all, i am new to the club and need some info on this ovation. model 1117 with oval paper logo ( has pickup but no volume control) serial #f291 any help would be greatly appreciated thank you all chris hooks | ||
seesquare |
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Joined: November 2002 Posts: 3604 Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Pickup was likely aftermarket. Nice, thin, & fast neck. Good tonal balance. And, apparently, yours is real old. | ||
MWoody |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13984 Location: Upper Left USA | Welcome Chris! | ||
TAFKAR |
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Joined: April 2008 Posts: 2985 Location: Sydney, Australia | Welcome Chris. 1117 is a nice guitar, I had one of 'em. Someone else around here is fishing to get one. Hang on tight, he may beat you over the head with a wad of money. | ||
cholloway |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 2791 Location: Atlanta, GA. | Welcome Chris. Ovation's link to some info on your Legend is here. Records indicate it was built between 7/68 & 2/70. | ||
chrishooksbass |
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Joined: February 2009 Posts: 3 Location: cincinnati | thanks guys could this be one of the fist piezo's?l ooks original. she is a sweet warm sounding guitar | ||
G8r |
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Joined: November 2006 Posts: 3969 | Welcome! Sweet guitar you got there. The '1' in the second digit indicates it was originally an acoustic-only from the factory (the A/E would have been labeled 1617). If it has a pickup, then it it was installed afterward. Might've been done at the factory, but they probably would've put a pre-amp in at the same time. No matter, that's a wonderful guitar, a real classic. | ||
stonebobbo |
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Joined: August 2002 Posts: 8307 Location: Tennessee | Is that a winged bridge model? Got to be a real early one. Just in case you want to feel special, you need to know you're in fine company: | ||
Tony Calman |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 4619 Location: SoCal | Doesn't seem unusual for one of the early ones to have had a p/u installed...I have a 5 point bridge, shiny bowl deluxe balladeer with a saddle p/u going out through the endpin. Played it for a couple of months before I realized. | ||
GlennAllenHessSr |
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Joined: April 2008 Posts: 498 | I had a 71 Balladeer with a great endpin out and piezo thinline saddle w/no preamp... and it looked like a factory job as well... it was the guitar that brought me to this forum.. your Legend is a Keeper for sure.. welcome! Glenn | ||
chrishooksbass |
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Joined: February 2009 Posts: 3 Location: cincinnati | Thanks again, the pickup is piezo with a jack instead of endpin. Looks like the "wing bridge" in the Clapton ad. A really nice sounding and playing guitar. | ||
seesquare |
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Joined: November 2002 Posts: 3604 Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | I stand corrected. Welcome, Chris! | ||
BT717 |
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Joined: October 2007 Posts: 2711 Location: Vernon CT | Welcome Chris! Stick around and enjoy! | ||
GlennAllenHessSr |
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Joined: April 2008 Posts: 498 | Hey Seesquare,(other Chris).... wasn't trying to correct you... just that the 71 that I had.. an early 71 had an endpin jack like no other I had ever seen before, and even had the wire clips in the bowl... may have been aftermarket.. but was a very seamless and professional installation, and was a quality piezo... it was my first O, and while I knew the later models were electrified, this one was a lot earlier than I thought that Ovation was doing pickup installs on the line. found it in Jessup's estate store here in Melbourne, nice old sunburst and when I looked down inside saw the wires, and then noticed the endpin out... the store didn't even know it had a pickup in it either...they wanted $250 with original case, strap, capo, picks, and a tuner... Char bought it for me for my Birthday 10 years ago.... a couple of years later, I found this forum when trying to get some information on it, I had to pawn it for a time, and when I retrieved it from the pawnbrokers and the girl went back to get it, a TV or Stereo or something in the back room fell on it while she was trying to get it off the rack... and trashed the case and cracked the top.... got a new case and a repair job out of the oops.... but at the time didn't know about the mothership or the fact that they do wonderful repairs and restorations.. so a local guy did the top repair, and the guitar was never the same again... Glenn | ||
deadfish |
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Joined: February 2009 Posts: 54 Location: Dayville, Connecticut | Originally posted by chrishooksbass: Welcome Chris... hello all, i am new to the club and need some info on this ovation. model 1117 with oval paper logo ( has pickup but no volume control) serial #f291 any help would be greatly appreciated thank you all chris hooks Nice to see another new forum member with an older Ovation... Good folks here...enjoy the site Rick C. | ||
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