Second digit is type of guitar: 1 Acoustic roundbacks (also semi-hollowbody electrics) 2 Solidbody and semi-hollowbody electrics: 3 Ultra acoustics: 4 Solidbody: 5 Acoustic electric cutaway Adamas and II/Elite/Ultra electric: 6 Acoustic electric roundbacks: 7 Deep: 8 Shallow: Third digit denotes bowl depth on acoustic and acoustic electrics. The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of guitars. Ovation primarily manufactures steel-string acoustic guitars (both 6 and 12-string versions) and nylon-string acoustic guitars, often with pickups for electric amplification.

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THREEDIGIT SERIES

THREE DIGIT SERIES (Numberrange)	YEAR MADE	Comment
006-319	1966	Threedigits in red ink
320-999	1967(Feb-Nov)	NewHartford; three digits in redink
1000-	1967(Nov)-1968 (July)	Fourdigits in black ink, noletter prefix
10000-	1970(Feb)-1972 (May)	Fivedigits, no letter prefix
A+3Digits	1968(July-Nov)
B+3Digits	1968(Nov)-1969 (Feb)
B+5Digits	1974-1979	Magnumsolid body basses
C+3Digits	1969(Feb-Sept)
D+3Digits	1969(Sept)-1970 (Feb)
E+4Digits	1973(Jan)-1975 (Feb)	Solidbodies
E+5Digits	1975(Feb)-1980	Solidbodies
E+6Digits	1980(late)-1981	SomeUK IIs (does not reflectproduction)
F,Gprefix	1968(July)-1970 (Feb)
H,I,J,Lprefix	1970-1973	ElectricStorm Series

FourDigit Series

Firstdigit is always 1
Seconddigit is type of guitar:
1Acoustic roundbacks (also semi-hollowbody electrics)
2Solidbody and semi-hollowbody electrics
3Ultra acoustics
4Solidbody
5Acoustic electric cutaway Adamas and II/Elite/Ultra electric
6Acoustic electric roundbacks
7Deep
8Shallow
Thirddigit denotes bowl depth on acoustic andacoustic electrics:
1Standard bowl, 5 13/16' deep
2Artist bowl, 5 1/8' deep
3Elite/Matrix electric deep bowl
4Matrix shallow bowl
5Custom Balladeer, Legend, Legend 12, Custom Legend 12, Anniversary
6Cutaway electric, deep bowl
7Cutaway electric, shallow bowl
8Adamas, 6 1/16' deep
Fourthdigit denotes mode, for the first eightacoustic models:
1Balladeer
2Deluxe Baladeer
3Classic
4Josh White
5 12-String
6Contemporary Folk Classic
7Glen Campbell Artist Balladeer
8 Glen Campbell12-String
Colorcode follows hyphen after model number: (Please, follow this link) Ovation & Adamas Colors Chart

SIXDIGIT SERIES
1971-Present(ExceptAdamas)

	YEAR MADE
000001-007000	1972(May-Dec)
020001-039000	1974
039001-067000	1975
067001-086000	1976
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