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bailey thanx heaps for ur reply and paul wat did u mean by generic? Yes it is Korean Built the nearest guitar store tells me the value is over 1000 dollars and not many were built. when u say SUPER STRAT do u mean a fender and why would it be badged as a celebrity/ovation!?!?!?!?!
Yeah man it does matter coz im looking to sell it so i need some history on it :) looking to get a newer Ovation Solidbody...... |
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Location: Scotland | By generic I mean it is a standard far-eastern factory design which was then sold to various distributors worlwide with whatever name they want on the headstock. At one point Takamine had similar guitar in their line. The term "superstrat" was coined in the 80's for Strat-shaped guitars with humbuckers, locking trems & pointy headstocks, typified by Jackson, Charvel & just about everone else at that time. Your guitar may not be too common but that does not mean it's valuble. Only the rarest USA Ovation solids get anywhere near $1000 at this time & the Korean-made GP model which generally exceeds that only does so because of it's association with The Queens Of The Stone Age, not because it's necessarily worth what people are prepared to pay for it. On the basis of what someone would be prepared to pay, I'd put the value of your guitar at $150-200. As for a "newer" Ovation solidbody, production of USA instruments ceased around 83' and the Ovation-badged Korean guitars around '85, so yours is later than all of them.
Paul
[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: Paul Templeman ] |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | If the nearest store will give you $1000 take the money and run......... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | If in fact you have an Ultra GS and someone wants to guve 1K... take it indeed, and RUN. But do you have a pic of this guitar. I find it hard to believe that anyone would say an UltraGS is worth 1K. $300-$400 for a dead mint one maybe...
FYI.. the Ultra GS came in a gazillion formats...
- 2 humbuckers
- 1 humbucker
- 2 single and 1 slant humbucker
All models were released with a Wilkinson Trem or Kahler trem at one tome or another... so there are actually 6 models not including colors.
They are actually nice guitars for what they are. The extra routing around the body and headstock is a nice touch. I think compared to the other guitars in the same price point, these stood out as a little class. They were pot together well, and if well cared for... made a nice working axe.
Love to see a pic. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I just read your message in another topic. Yes, there was a Celebrity solid body. I really don't know much about it... but basically as stated, it was just a variation on the theme of super-strats. There is also the GTX-23 (don't know where that name came from). Has a little more interesting headstock... a little Ibanezy looking. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i have an ultra gs and considering what i paid for it () it is a great guitar. the locking tremelo is pretty bad but i don't use one anyway so the associated tuning problems dont affect me. anyone with their hand on their wallet won't even come close to to that $1000 figure you mentioned. they are well worth $200 if they are in good condition IMHO, buy there are far superior ovation solid bodies. my favorite workhorse is the ukII. type ukII and or ultra kaman into search on this site if you dont know about them. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Those Kahlers are my favorite. The key is they MUST be locked. I have been using them for so long I tune on the fly by just using the fine-tune adjusters on the bridge when I yank a string out of tune. I like it better than Floyd Rose because the dynamic is less. I can easly vibrate chords and actually bend whole chords a little with a Kahler but the FR drops it out of tune, and also all you have to do is touch an FR and you're bent a whole step... Kahler you actually have to move the bar. I have had Wilkonson stles work, but I usually put in a locking nut to keep them in tune also. |
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Ovation Solid Bodies!!!!!!!