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Location: 6 String Ranch | After the hard Bodies went limp there was a run of guitars bought from a factory in Japan. This would have been in 86. I've not heard these mentioned here. Anybody got any or seem them?
They were different from the hard bodies in that they were all made in Japan, as in bought fully assembled with whatever parts they could get in Japan. Gotoh keys I think. They were stratish and there was one model with a destinktive body shape. See Miles' pictures, he's got the proto of it that I made back in the 70's. There was also one(strat type) with a hex pickup like the one Kramer was trying to push at the same time. This model enjoyed the same success that the Kramer had. Some of the necks were maple and some were laminated strips of wood. I think they were reddish looking. In all there were maybe 300-500 of these made.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | For those who are interested go to Ovation Solid-Body Collection and click on Custom/Collectables. The guitar CWK2 is asking about is #0102. I was wondering where these guitars were myself. I can honestly say that I have never seen one before. One thing I was not clear on was, did the production model look pretty much like the prototype and did it have the Ovation headstock? If it didn't have the Ovation headstock, that would explain how I could have easily missed it over the years. Also, do you recall what this model was called?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The model had a different treble horn than the prototype. It also had the Thunderbolt headstock. I think all the guitars had the T-Bolt head (or wood pecker peg head as we used to call it)
There must have been some basses too but I don't recall them |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Well you certainly sparked some phone calls and offline conversations I've had with this one. No idea what it was called I take it? The Thunderbolt heardstock may have caused me to overlook it, unless it blatently said "Ovation" on it. I made three phone calls and got a consistant "watcha talk'n bout Willis?" response.
Are you sure you're not yanking our chains? :)
I don't normally like to post pictures within a thread, but this one is worth it...
Has anyone seen a guitar that looks like this with
a Thunderbolt type headstock?
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Here is the Ibanez X-Series for compare..
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Are these the infamous Japan soldbodies?
Red GTX
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Miles,
The last one looks like it could be. If not it is a very similar design that was moved to a Korean factory since all the GTX guitars are kimchi eaters. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Well I find the one you built more interesting along with guitars like the Corbus, the explorer, the Hamer Standard, Ibanez X etc...... The GTX's just look like copies of what everyone else copied. But that's a different thread |
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