Got my baby back

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About 17 years ago, I quit playing music and pretty much sold off all my equipment. After I started playing again, I really missed my Ovation Limited. I tracked down the guy I sold it to and he had also quit playing and sold off everything EXCEPT the limited. I have never played a guitar with a better neck.
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I haven't seen one of those in a LONG time. Very cool.:cool:
 
I have a similar story with a not so happy ending.

I had a 1977 Les Paul Sunburst, which I used primarily for stage work as my Telecaster was my studio guitar. After being out of music for about 10 years I sold off the Les Paul to a fireman who had a band.

Another 10 years goes by and I run into the fireman in a book store. He doesn't remember me but I remembered him. I asked him if he was still playing the Les P and he tells me he loaned it to his nephew who sanded it all down and kinda took it apart. My eyes rolled back in my head. He then asked me if it would be worth anything now.

The pain, oh the pain.
 
OH MY GOD!!! I can just imagine! I saw a LP studio in a pawn shop for about $350 a week or so ago. I picked it up and played it but it had been rode hard and put up wet. It would have taken a lot of work to get it back into shape, and besides I had already negotiated to get the limited back. It's probably still there.

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So my buddy had been borrowing his fathers Ovation Preacher.......

I was not really familiar with Ovation electrics until then. It was a sweet rich red mahogony solid body with a boat anchor for a bridge. Somehow my buddy was prying on the bridge with a screwdriver and the post ripped a god awful hole through the back of the body. He brought it to me afraid to confront his father (who after a year asked about his guitar). I fixed the body mind you, by routing out a smooth square and dropping in a similar grained slab..... but still. a classic lost to stupidity.
 
I think most of us have one or two horror stories. I hate hearing about stuff like that. I'm so glad the guy that had my guitar kept it in the case. He said he hadn't even taken it out of the case in 10 years. I had to tweak the truss rod a little, but other than that it was perfect...thank God.

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BTW..its a good thing that guitar wasn't a deacon or breadwinner, the plates on the back are die cast metal with the Ovation logo.
 
The first electric I ever bought (1981-2) was an Ovation Preacher. I was going to buy a Strat, but someone convinced otherwise, and what a mistake that was!

The guitar looked the balls, had active electronics and gold plating everywhere. I could only play cords, back then, and it sounded fine for that. I quickly found that it had no tone and was useless/frustrating for solo/lead work.

...so I soon traded it for a '74 SG, and never looked back!

Dara
 
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