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Location: Knoxville, TN | Check this out guys!!
A super early Ovation up for grabs.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-c-1966-Ovation-Guitar-Prototype-Model-N... |
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Location: NJ | I can see why he failed t'mention the "patch job" on the top. It's almost indiscernible . . . |
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Location: Scotland | Neck set looks real shallow, and as a result it's had grooves cut in the bridge to get the action low enough, which is a pretty nasty amatuer fix. And whats going on with those wooden pickguards or whatever they are? Looks like it's had a hard life, it would need some TLC back at the factory. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | FUGLY pickguards!
It was a second. Probably an employee guitar bought at one of the many blow out sales or it could have been from a dealer, there was one in that area of CT that would buy all the stuff that wouldn't sell.
It's had a hard life.
Still, you get it cheep enuf...... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I feel really bad for it... |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Yeah, enough that you want to adopt it, I surmise. Good luck! I just wonder if those "pickguards" can be removed, or if they are covering some bygone calamity. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | :D
Either way they gotta go!
If there's still some wood there they may end up with some intarsia. |
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Location: gods country..west virginia | is it a factory second?? |
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Location: SoCal | Everybody who's a serious Ovation fan should have a shiny bowl in their collection. |
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Location: Tennessee | Everybody who's a serious Ovation fan should have a shiny bowl in their collection. There aren't enough of them (shiny bowls, not fans) out there for that to happen. ;) This is not one that looks like it would do a collector or serious fan proud. At least the JW and DB reissues can feed the need. |
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Location: Scotland | I have a 68 Deluxe Balladeer shiny bowl about to go on ebay if anyone here wants to grab it first |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I've seen better uses for luan wall paneling... just not in the last 30 years! |
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Location: Maine | Wasn't that dealer in CT River's Music in Bristol? |
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Location: SoCal | Thinking about the 1627 RI, I've decided that as good a guitar as it is (and it's a great guitar), Ovation should have built the GC Deluxe Balladeer as the reissue.
You can find 1627's on ebay for $300-$600. So why spend $1800 for a new one? But there are maybe 50 GCDB's still in existance. A reissue of that guitar would have been worth $1800 no sweat..... |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I agree with you Paul, I would love to have a brand new GC Deluxe Balladeer...and would have gladly donated a nice pattern for them to go by!
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EARLY Ovation on the bay