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Location: SoCal | FYI
Book Elite
I don't care for the neck finish, but will agree that these are great sounding guitars. My question is, why do people think it's so wonderful to stuff a guitar under a bed for 12 years and not play it. They only get better with playing, not age..... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | The COA is from a 2001 Collector's series...Optima pre-amp (not OP-24+)...Newer 9158 case...I think the case candy was in this case...just a guess but it's a strong possibility...
Personally, it needs a gloss neck and a GC TRC...YMMV... ;) :rolleyes: :D |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That description reads vaguely familiar almost like it was lifted word for word from another website ... |
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Location: Tennessee | And it's gone ... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | And
%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318]And
now it is Back Again! :p |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Someone ask him about the C of A
AJ |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | AJ: already did that: my observations are above: he so far is silent... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | woops.... :D :rolleyes: |
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Location: Portland, OR | As to Moody's question, watching ebay over the years it seems that some retailers hang on to inventory 'til some things get stuck in the back room to make room for more. I don't know how that happens. Maybe they get attached to them. Or maybe they hang on the walls year after year. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Looks like it sold for $1500. |
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Location: SoCal | It's baaaack...
Book Elite on the \'bay |
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Location: SoCal | yep, I'm the 1st bidder... :D
probable same reserve though. |
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Location: Portland, OR | I bid on it too, but I'm not going to the reserve. Truth is I don't want to win it. So good luck. |
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| Will a guitar that's been parked for the long ever open up well. |
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Location: SoCal | Temp would probably have a strong and good opinion on this. My first impulse is to say that if it's played, it will open up. A lot of wood used on guitar tops is already aged. I don't know that more years will make a difference. But I'm just expressing an opinion. I don't know..... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | A guitar is like a baseball glove (Temp, it's a cricket mitt).
When it's new it's sorta stiff and uncomfortable. If you sit it on the shelf for a few years it will still be stiff and uncomfortable. But if you play with it a lot it will loosen up and become nice and broken if and a joy to use. I'm still playing with the glove I got as a birthday present in 1966 and it's wonderful. Spalding Maury Wills autograph model.
Ovation may be a little different. Most baseball gloves in this world are all leather. But if the entire back of the baseball glove were made of plastic I'm not sure exactly how that would change the equation. Maybe if the plastic was hand laid or shiny finished?
Anyway, just my stupid opinion but Ovation guitars "open up" far less than wooden guitars. That's good for the buyer because you know what you'll end up with right when you buy it. No guessing. And the thing that opens up guitars is air pumping the chamber. So you gots to play the damn thing !!!
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I have it on good information that my book elite baseball glove (w/gloss neck and GCTRC) will be coming to SW VA in the very near future!
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Location: Portland, OR | If anyone wanted a good deal on a book elite, this is it. Same guy and same decription, wrong case, wrong papers, but guitar looks like new:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130281019043&ssPageName=MERC_VIC_RCRX_Pr3_PcY_BIN_IT&refitem=130278766934&itemcount=3&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=Cro ssSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m183&_trkparms=algo%3DCRX%26its%3DS%252BI%26itu%3DUCI%252BSI%26otn%3D3 |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | What the cock?
Has this not been sold twice and now back up for sale? What's going on?
I would start to worry that this is not genuine. |
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Location: Portland, OR | No, he had a mistake in the original listing, then got a bid over $1,100 when his reserve was $1,250. Then he lowered his reserve on this when there was apparently a bid over the new reserve. I Guess with a BIN of $1,100, he figured the first high bid wasn't coming back when it wasn't snatched up. I don't know, maybe he just needs to move it. I had some communication with him early on and he knows it's not a good time to sell. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Ended w/winning bid of $999.00...
Anybody here grab it? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I missed another one. Somebody bid more than that the last time, but never reached his reserve. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
I'm still playing with the glove I got as a birthday present in 1966 and it's wonderful. Spalding Maury Wills autograph model. You can still play with the glove because you haven't grown any in all those years....... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Originally posted by Gallerinski:
I'm still playing with the glove I got as a birthday present in 1966 and it's wonderful. Spalding Maury Wills autograph model. You can still play with the glove because you haven't grown any in all those years....... |
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Location: ms | I don`t want a guitar thats been under a bed for 15 years. If it was not tuned down all you got is a dusty guitar with a hump on the top and the saddle pulling off. |
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Book Elite on the 'bay