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Location: Central Massachusetts | Time to shake things up a bit, so my Eclipse is on the block.
Like a Tornado covered in black polane (bowl enamel) with chrome hardware. This is a hollowbody, not semi-hollow.
Serial number H 085, 1971-1973 vintage.
In great shape. Has brand new NOS electronics installed. Bigsby B7 tremelo.
I have the pick guard, so I can put it back on or leave it off.
Comes with hard shell case.
This got played a bit in Mt. Vernon.. please chime in with your reviews if you'd like!
More pics on the other side .
Asking $650 shipped CONUS to an OFCer. More to ship elsewhere. Thanks!
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Location: Upper Left USA | I liked it a lot!
I also made templates of the pickguard and can reproduce them in Ebony, Maple, Linoleum, etc.
David's stuff is good an I'd trust him. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | So why did you pull the original electronics?
Would this make a good Jazz guitar? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This one is in great shape. The prior owners must have either treated it with loving care, or hid it and then forgot all about it. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Stephen sees the worm wiggling. Time to dust off my crumb catcher. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | I bought an extra set of electronics for it when I bought it, meaning to wax pot the pups and have a spare. Gave up on that project along the way and sold off the extra set. I put the nicest/cleanest set in the guitar.
I bought it to be my blues player but my guitars exceed my skills. It sounds good through both my Epi Valve Jr and my Shen Jr. I just noodled with it at home, so I couldn't give a good comparison of the hollow-body vs. semi-hollow with respect to sustain and feedback. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
This one is in great shape. The prior owners must have either treated it with loving care, or hid it and then forgot all about it. This came to me indirectly, but was from Miles' collection. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's so black......... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | but it's that black that don't show no smudges.. |
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Location: Orange County, California | My name is Hotblack Desatio, and THAT'S MY GUITAR!!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by stephent28:
Would this make a good Jazz guitar? Only if the guitar player plays good Jazz.
It looks great. I didn't even bother with anything that had to be plugged in when I was at Miles. Now, dvd's Redwood, on the other hand. That's something I could get used to. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Cool Fred, tell us how you like it once it arrives! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | We put the "fun" in Dysfunctional! |
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Location: Orange County, California | I didn't get it. It was a just a reference to a HG2G character who owned a car so black that it looked as though even light couldn't escape it.... Unfortunately, like all before them, it was destined to be crashed into an nearby star during the grand finally of his plutonium rock band (Disaster Area)'s show, hopefully causing solar flare damage to *that* half of the planet... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't get it either, Fred, except for the dysfunctional part. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
It's so black......... "It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black."
- Nigel Tufnel
I've played this axe. Two thumbs up!
My Tornado is currently my favorite electric to pick up and play. The trem is a must for me. Playing it clean through the clean channel of my Carvin amp is very bluesy, and the coolest tone I think I've gotten from any of my guitars. If I plug into the Standel and give it a bit of vibrato and reverb, it's got a whole new unique vibe as well.
bobbo, you have one of these? You could do some kick ass surf stuff with it. It'll look good with the glasses too. :cool:
I wish I had the $ in the music fund. I've been bugging David about this thing for months now, long before I played it.
This will be a sweet player for some lucky bastard.
Good luck with the sale David. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I have that on my Screen Saver, only before it got the Bigsby. Now I have added the newer photo.
I have always liked that one.
(It inspired me to buy that Oscar Schmidt clone.) |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Just to be clear, Fred was making a joke, not an offer. This little slice of none-more-blackness is still available! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | DVD, it's definitely a cool guitar and of possible interest to me (if someone doesn't grab it first which they should probably do), but I am currently checking out very closely a Froggy Bottom F12 that has my attention and priority.
Good luck with it! |
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Location: Gig Harbor, Washington | We've got an exact replica in the herd...along with a sunburst Tornado - and they are both the ones my hands (and ears) naturally gravitate to!
And the Black on Chrome thing is even more sexy than an accordian crossed with a banjo...
But seriously - this is one of the most under-rated guitars Ovation ever built (imho) - and that comes from a real O' snob...and it plays clean & sweet or nasty & raunchy, depending on one's style (and ability!).
Someone needs to adopt this one - you won't regret adding this one to your collection (or coooollection)! |
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Location: NW Washington State | Originally posted by dvd:
Just to be clear, Fred was making a joke, not an offer. This little slice of none-more-blackness is still available! I'd make an offer, but you'd think it was a joke! |
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Location: GA USA | I played Crim's Tornado at church Sunday. It sounds fantastic through an acoustic amp (I just got a Shen stereo 60). JB was right about playing like an electric, whereas some hollows play like acoustics.
Does this guitar have blue-ish fret markers on top of the neck? That was a little wierd at first with the Tornado. Old guys need more contrast.
That's a great looking Eclipse. The tailpiece breaks up all the black nicely... so yes it could be blacker. It used to be. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Fret markers are white dots, Cap'n. This is like a bulletproof Tornado. The finish will probably never crack!
Thanks to all the northwesterners who chimed in after playing it! |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | PM SENT
keitharnold@live.com |
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Location: GA USA | Whoohoo, I may get to play it after all! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Keith, you dog... ;) |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
It's so black......... I like Black..... That is until they come out with a darker color.
That is one nice looking guitar :cool: |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Can you email me at keitharnold@live.com |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | email sent, thanks |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | do we have a winner?? |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I'd like one of those in a natural finish. |
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Location: GA USA | Then search Ovation Tornado on ebay and save the searches so you get an email when one gets listed. There are one or two a month, but you may have to wait for a natty.
There's a burst and a red now. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | still available, folks! |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Your Right TJ...I am a dog!!! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | now it's SOLD, thanks all! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Good!
Temptation removed! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by stephent28:
Temptation removed! Mixed emotions here: relief and regret! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Congrats Keith! I was looking at it seriously, but knew it was just another GAS attack. Took some pepto, and all is well... |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Hope we get a chance to see it at the Mountain Jam Keith.
This one was the first, in a while, that got the GAS flowing. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Took some pepto, and all is well... Never worked for me. |
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Location: Maine | Originally posted by MWoody:
I liked it a lot!
I also made templates of the pickguard and can reproduce them in Ebony, Maple, Linoleum, etc.
MWOODY or you could use this one ...
plus I owe you anyway!
looks like it's designed to shape it to size and produce the beveled edge by using 2 different cutters.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Tal,
How about I fly out there, rent a U-Haul and clean your garage for you? :D
You have got all of the best historical/Whatdaheckizzdiss stuff of all of us. You need to keep posting these suprises and become the official Curator for the BFLG.
Besides, just put it on my tab until you are ready to send me your Adamas Proto!!!!
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Location: Maine | Thanks for the offer MW... Actually the garage still does needs some more cleaning out... Though a lot has been done already. The hard part has been sorting through it all and also the fact I'm usually 200 miles away. The fun part has been finding a document or other catalog that explains what the "Whatdaheckizzdiss" is.. it's been quite a puzzle. I'm cautious now to not throw things out that I'm not 100% sure about. For example. probably 10 years ago I clearly remember throwing out a stripped down ovation solid body guitar body that was pretty light weight , and was actually made of foam? It even had a wood grain effect it in the sunburst finish. I figured who would want a "foam" guitar body ? ...
... and now I just bought a used one off ebay..
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Location: Jet City | That "foam" guitar was my first Ovation. Actually, it was the first guitar I ever bought on my own.
I bought the UKII brand new back in '82. |
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Location: Maine | I look forward to the challenge of piecing together the UK II , and it's using the body for dimemsions to complete a possible wooden twin.
Mike knows what I'm taking about... TJR |
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Location: Jet City | Talbot,
Miles (Mr. OVation) has a wood topped UKII, I think it has a maple cap on it.
I didn't take advantage of playing it while I was there and I've been kicking myself since. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's a birch top. It is the center of the Adamas tops, only .030" thick and pressed onto the top of the UK body and then bound. |
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Location: Maine | "It's a birch top. It is the center of the Adamas tops, only .030" thick and pressed onto the top of the UK body and then bound.
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