Dating ovation guitars by serial number

Ovation guitars by Kaman

By ej October 19, in Electric Guitars. Celebrities are MIK - so the only way you can date is by the pre-amp, and then only within the context of a set of years. Since it's a relatively cheap Korean model, I'd say anything over a burger and fries and a matinee would be overkill Don't know about that! To my knowledge, Celebrities have always strictly been MIK. I believe this shows all the preamps Ovation has offered.

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The first Ovation round back guitar emerged around Charlie Kaman, an aeronautical engineer making helicopters was also a guitarist. In order to diversify he dreamed of a better guitar and in a small team of aerospace engineers started work.

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H ave an older Ovation? Use these charts to find out exactly when it was made in our New Hartford, CT factory.

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Oxnard Serial Numbers

A series of tables and lists that summarise serial numbers, model codes and colors of the Ovation guitars from the beginning to the end of the 20th Century. The model 4 digit codes for the original models. Everything changed and became sort of messy from the Seventies, so the best way to be shure is using the Ovation Decoder.

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