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Location: Canada | Is there a database for Ovation Guitar Serial Numbers that I can just enter a Serial Number and it will tell me about the guitar? I had a link to one moons ago, but seemed to have lost it.
Thanks in advance.
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Never heard of it....and that would be SCARY if it existed that just anyone could get at it....eBay crooks would start pulling serial numbers and using them in auctions to make their items look legit.....
Anyone else heard of this???....I haven't.
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | You mean the cracking the code section will be used by ebay theives? I've never heard of it. |
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Location: Canada | I see your point. I totally forgot about the potential E-Bay fraud. But moons ago I had a link to a site where I would type in the make, model and serial number of a guitar. It would tell me the where it was made, when it was made and a brief history of the guitar. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | No, an4340...."Cracking The Code" is legit...it doesn't connect a serial number to a particular manufacturer, model and color of guitar, only the year, and an explanation from a model number (that you already have).
I see that the site isn't as bad as I feared...you have to have the make, model and serial number to get a history. That's different. I understood that the site would give you make and model FROM a serial number. THAT'S SCARY. And very open to use by eBay-using crooks.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | No manufacturer that I know of records such specific info with their serial numbers except for Martin.
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Point of order: Cracking the code does refer to a manufacturer.
If a crooked ebayer wants to lie about the make and model there's nothing you can do. In fact, people do that already, selling guitars they don't have. So be scared now. Big deal. |
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Location: Canada | Perhaps I am just too honest then. I never even thought about the potential. Hmmm.....come to think of it, I think it was a Martin make that I looked at moons ago. I have an Ovation that I recently acquired that I would like to find the exact month/year it was made. Is there anyway I can find that out online? Simply out of curiousity really. |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by Bluebird:
No manufacturer that I know of records such specific info with their serial numbers except for Martin.
Wayne You can get all the info possible from Alembic, also. Right down to the day it left the factory.
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Agreed, of course a crooked eBayer can lie about make and model now, and there are those who do. It gets a little more upsetting when they can add a legit serial number to it, though. The potential is there to cause problems for the legitimate owner of the instrument.
You can find out the year, but no more, from the "Cracking The Code" area on Ovation's website, or within the "Reference" area within the OFC site. See where within the band of numbers for a year where your serial number is, you can make a fair guess as to what month it was manufactured.
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