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Location: Phoenix AZ | For Sale: 1768 LTD BOOK ELITE
Spruce top, aged honey color
Abalone top binding
Walnut bridge
Ebony fingerboard with 1966-1996 inlay
Abalone binding on fingerboard
Walnut peghead facing with abalone trim
Deep bowl cutaway
Schaller tuners with pearloid buttons
OPTIMA preamp with 1/4 and XLR outputs
Includes hardshell case
Note - there are no marks whatsoever on the guitar. What you see in the photos are reflections.
Two years ago I sent the guitar back to the factory and had the neck and headstock custom gloss finished. It was an expensive upgrade but well worth it. Below is a before and after photo.
Guitar is in 100% mint condition with no visible signs of wear. This is an absolute museum piece and a real slice of Ovation history. Comes with original hardshell case which is also in excellent condition.
$1350. incl. FREE FedEx shipping within the 48 US States
Email or PM me if interested.
Also let me know if you would like the matching MM68 LTD BOOK MANDOLIN and I can offer a package deal. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Terrific deal. If somebody buys this, I'd be willing to swap my stock model straight up for this glossy neck/headstock model. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Either you took that pic before you blew your achilles or it's somebody else in the reflection. |
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Location: closely held secret | I wouldn't be surprised if his injury was caused by excessive kneeling to take pictures of guitars. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That's what I figured. I didn't believe that long distance running BS, except that he does have the carbo loading stuff down for such a little guy. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Either you took that pic before you blew your achilles or it's somebody else in the reflection. Yup. That photo was a couple of years ago before the glossing. I can't kneel right now - shut up Cliff.
BTW I was the original owner of that guitar back in '96. Actually the oldest continuously owned Ovation I've got. |
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Location: PDX | Too bad you went and had the neck glossed .... :)
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Location: Tennessee | Looks like the GC TRC Bandito has been at your house.
Nice guitar. But I mustn't. Really. Seriously. I must ignore the Paypal balance. Somebody please buy this soon. |
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Location: SoCal | Ok, I gotta confess here. I'm right there with Toby on the neck glossing. There was a time in the 90's when Ovation didn't seem to do anything to the neck and headstock and I never cared for the way the guitars looked. To my eye, the difference between a glossed and unglossed neck and headstock is night and day.
For a while, in the late 80's, Ovation went with a satin finish on the necks. My 87C has that. It's fine, but any less finish just isn't right to me. But I know people who can't stand a glossed neck. I love them..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hell of a good price too.
Anybody who has heard one of these or an 87C should be breakin the piggy bank. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by g8r:
GAS :eek: Get in line g8r. ;)
And here I sit without nearly enough Tum$ in the medicine cabinet. The guitar and mando both would be history now if I had a job that could actually support this habit!  |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Either you took that pic before you blew your achilles or it's somebody else in the reflection. I can't kneel right now - shut up Cliff.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Just because you might own an '87 Collector doesn't mean you don't also need a Book Elite ...
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Location: NJ | ok I'll say it
how can it be so mint if it has a trss rod cover onit that dosen't belong and three extra holes and a gloss neck.
that's not mint to me it is not within factory specs.
ok I said it |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Might not be factory spec'd or entirely original but I would still think it could qualify as (and very probably is knowing Toby) "mint". But I guess that could be subjective. As long as it's disclosed as such I don't think it's wrong to list it that way. Just my .02. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | "Mint" condition and "Original" condition are two different things.
I saw a mint condition '54 Chevy. It was painted with flames on the side. Absolutely stunning job. Hardly original.
If you disagree then use the word "Pristine". |
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Location: South of most, North of few | OK, now I have to say it. Where the hell did "Toby" come from? |
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Location: closely held secret | ...Texas. |
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Location: SoCal | I don't think there were any holes drilled in the application of the truss rod cover....... |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I don't think there were any holes drilled in the application of the truss rod cover....... stick to double Knot spyin.....
screws don't make holes? |
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Location: ms | the gloss adds a nice touch. |
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Location: NJ | ". . screws don't make holes? . ."
Knowing Witko, I wouldn't be suprised if it was held on w/double-stick with severed screwheads glued onto the TRC . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by cliff:
". . screws don't make holes? . ."
Knowing Witko, I wouldn't be suprised if it was held on w/double-stick with severed screwheads glued onto the TRC . . . Bingo. With screw heads carefully cut off the shafts. The man's positively anal..... |
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Location: NJ | you would know . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'll have to check, but I think this Book Elite and a couple others may actually be screwed on.
It was only later that I found Standingovation was selling "Faux TRC" kits on ebay. The kit (actually just a freaking PDF file for $5.99) is just as Cliff states. Cut the threads off the screw heads and glue the screwheads to the holes in the TRC and then double face tape the TRC to the guitar.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | It would truly be a shame if screws were used to attach a fake TRC to a headstock that someone spent the extra's $'s to gloss. I've always considered the clean (no TRC) a signature element of earlier Ovations. The gloss, on this guitar especially, is a nice touch.
The TRC is kinda like putting a bumper sticker on a Ferrari. JMHO I hope it's just stuck on, then it would be clever... Like if those magnetic bandaides or bullet holes were put on a Ferrari. |
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Location: NJ | . . . I was thinking more like Playboy mud-flaps, but same idea. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Hey, the customization may turn some people off and may turn others on. In the end it's just a guitar.
I do like the Playboy mudflaps idea. Frankly I'm getting a little tired of the Yosemite Sam flaps currently on the Rover ...
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Location: NJ | "BackOff" |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I have the Yosemite Sam mudflaps on my wood trailer. I'll bet it has been in the mud a lot more than the Rover has. Mudflaps in Arizona? Isn't that like ... I can't say that here. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It rained for about 10 minutes on my way through western Texas last week. Could call it "mud" I guess. Other than that the only water the car has seen has been in the car wash. |
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Location: Tennessee | You've gotta go on one of the Land Rover Off-Road adventures. We did it about 6 or 7 years ago with the Discovery. I guarantee water up to the doorsills, mud, and incredible terrain. It's absolutely unbelievable what these vehicles can do once they leave the pavement. Now back to your regularly scheduled program. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Then someone buys one and it never leaves the pavement again. Something like 95% of 4 wheel drive vehicles in the US never leave pavement. If I wanted a real off road vehicle, I'd get a VW Thing like you have. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Fancy SUVs are like brazilian rosewood guitars - nobody buys them because they "need" one, you just want to be able to say you "have" one. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'd rather say I have a VW Thing. At least you could have been driving a Cayenne. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
At least you could have been driving a Cayenne. EDITED.
My original comment about the size of one's male anatomy vs. the likihood the he might be driving a porsche would have gotten me a vacation. Or at least pissed off a few friends. Mark, Bobbo I didn't really mean it. But you know, it's just sort of an urban myth ... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It would be better with Toby on the TRC. |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
But you know, it's just sort of an urban myth ... Pure myth. Now ... those guys that put truss rod covers where they don't need 'em, well ... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I kind of enjoy being the you know what on the inside, if you remember the old joke. I know you really wanted the Porsche, Dave, but you were trying to get over your rounded, curvey, cool phase and were going for flat and boxy. Or was that your guitars? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Ooo, that's a good comeback. I may have to work on this for awhile ...
Yes guitars have definitely gotten flat and boxy. But hardly uncool.
Actually I remember discussing cayennes vs. rovers over brats at lunch, right? They're nice but I just don't have the interest to choose out of 600 different options and configurations. Just give me one model this is it, comes with everything standard nothing to decide, done deal. But I'm probably in the minority. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I remember the discussion. I don't fault your choice. We have a Honda Pilot. A sexy SUV in an oxymoron. |
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Location: Tennessee | It's all good. Rover and Porsche cohabitate nicely in my world. So do roundbacks and flatbacks. And curvy stuff too. Get the right ones for the right job and they all do their own things best. Even the VW Thing. :cool:
Has anyone bought this guitar yet? Sheesh, it's a book guitar! Pre-Fender. With the sexy and cool outies. Optima preamp, too. The gloss neck just makes it better. The Ultimate Ovation? Could be. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I went through several high-end European sports cars/sedans. Never again. Paying maintenance costs on Italian cars at the Ferrari dealership got old real quick. I still love the gloss mods, Toby. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | ... you should see the gloss neck on the mando.
About car repairs, yup the costs add up. That's why I only do leases. Three years full maintanence and then I'm out of it into a new one. Steady monthly cash flow, no highs and lows and in the last 15 years I've spent $0. out of pocket on service. Currently on my 9th consecutive lease, always two in parallel.
I think for people looking for pre-owned sometimes cars coming back off lease can be a great deal. The previous owner can't run up big miles and has to keep it in good shape. Literally last week turned in my wifes car after 3 years and it's only got 13k miles on it. Not a mark of use or wear anyplace. Don't think it ever strayed more than 25 miles from our house. Who ever picks that one up is getting an absolute creampuff. I thought about buying it at the end of the lease but owning a piece of depreciating iron isn't something that appeals to me. Hey Moody, I was half way to your house picking up her new one (Palm Springs). We should have met up and lent you a real guitar.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | So you should have leased a Porsche so I could buy your lease return that you babied for 3 years. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Just give me one model this is it, comes with everything standard nothing to decide, done deal. But I'm probably in the minority. It all started a coupla decades ago... with Free Automatic Transmission and Air Conditioning.
"Can I get a standard transmission, no A/C and roll-up windows?"
"That'll be extra!"
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Remember, Stonebobbo sez; "Has anyone bought this guitar yet? Sheesh, it's a book guitar! Pre-Fender. With the sexy and cool outies. Optima preamp, too. The gloss neck just makes it better. The Ultimate Ovation? Could be." |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Dave and Trader Jim should start a guitar leasing company. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | GUITAR IS SOLD.
Thanks. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Congrats to the new owner. You just got a great guitar! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | What about the mando? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Mike, does your unbridled use of emoticons mean that you are the new owner? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Every Picture Tells a Story...Don't They?
Sorry for all the emotocon abuse: festive mood...
2500 posts + Book Elite = ;)
THANKS DAVE! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Ok, I've calmed down now...sorry again for the emoto's but I found a new site and tried to use them to tell a story for my 2500th post.
I'm excited to be able to get this guitar...the GC TRC doesn't bother me at all...he did put Ovation "on the map" so to speak for the first 30 years...seems fitting I think...and the gloss neck and headstock are so nice! I have the Book so this will make a nice set.
Brad, the mando was still available at last notice (but may have been spoken for ...ask Dave). I couldn't swing both now. I'd love to find a Book 12 however...someday...
Have a great weekend all... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Glad it's going to a good home. Thanks Mike.
Mando is technically still available while a a few folks work through the SSA phase.
(Seeking Spousal Approval) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Good luck with the SSA stuff. I was hoping you'd talk Linda into buying it for me for Christmas, Dave. Is there an emoticon for "fat chance" or "that'll be the day"? |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Congrats Mike !!!!!  |
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For Sale: 1768 LTD BOOK ELITE - CUSTOM GLOSS NECK