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| I have a wood top proto 1687. Looking for more info. I think its from 81 and there was about 100 made. thanks |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | way fewer than that. Post a pic. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Yo' Cas... We need a photo of the Proto! :eek: Please... |
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| were do i upload in the gallery or here? |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | cas, look at the first post in the "for sale" section for instructions. Hope this helps, after all, we are just Sharks waitin on a little chum.....or somethin like that. |
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| ok i did it its in gallery |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Ouch, that's nice. How much ??? |
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| cwk2 signed the tag inside, called ovation and they had little knowledge on it. Said it was a rep or in factory model. They didnt sell these. Anybody know the true value of it. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Welcome cas,
great guitar - and great entry post!
Do you want to sell it - or just looking for infos?
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Location: South of most, North of few | Value,...unlimited , to the right person. |
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| Just looking for info for right now. Sorry i posted it in the wrong area. |
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Location: SoCal | Doesn't Wong have one of these also? Very nice guitar. I'm assuming that Nick M. made a few of these in Mooseup. 5-10? I don't know and really wouldn't have any idea.
Not certain I'd know how to put a price on it, but
Al might know. I'd guess that you'd have to talk to him off the board. He doesn't tend to talk money on the board..... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Is that a 12er head on there? It sure looks looong! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | With that guitar, we'll cut you some slack. Nice. |
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| Does anybody know how many were made? |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Broccoli head woodtop??!! NICE!!
cas, CWK2 signed many a fine Adamas.....not to short change this specific beauty.
Beal? |
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Location: France | Great guitar !!!! It seems less wide, as a parlor, no ?? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Value; $5000-10,000 somewhere in there
Slotheads are in the same ball park and there are 34 of them
guitars like this I doubt there were more than 10 made.
The signature devalues it by at least a grand.... |
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| Does the photo make it look like a parlor, or is it really that slim?.. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | OK, I'll give ya two fiddy for it.... :D |
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| Well thanks for the info. The guitar is deep and wide. It has the most amazing tone like no other i have ever heard. Also what meant by cwk2 signed it meaning the ovation tag inside, not the actual guitar. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If you don't tell anyone that cwk2 poses as Beal on this board, the signature probably won't devalue the guitar as much.
And be sure to point out how much effort it took for him to sign it through those little holes. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | skinny wrists.
I think it's normal width, the pic just makes it look skinny |
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Location: NJ | The pic might've distorted slighty in re-sizing . . . |
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Location: Parrish, FL | 
Here is the critter. |
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| yea that pic makes it look very small, I will get better pics of it. Hey beal do they know where all of these guitar are? Who were they made for? Do you have one? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | So what's the difference between a wood topped adamas and a carbon topped ovation? |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Tupperware:
So what's the difference between a wood topped adamas and a carbon topped ovation? One's got a wood top and one has a carbon fiber top. Jeez, that was easy......
The guitar like this one that I've played, has a big wood sound. Because of the trim ring, the deep bowl is slightly deeper, giving it more sound than a 1537. Very very good guitar. |
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Location: closely held secret | So why didn't they go to production with a model with a wood top and a trim ring? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Probably cost considerations. When it 1537 came out in 1981 is was about the same list price as a D28. Maybe they figured anything more expensive would be tough to sell and would canibalize the adamas market. Just a guess.
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| They should have, this guitar is amazing |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
So why didn't they go to production with a model with a wood top and a trim ring? Tup may be right. I don't know. Keep in mind that the 1537 only lasted in it's original configuration for about 1 1/2 years, at which time it started to be "cheapened" (?) in it's construction. |
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Location: closely held secret | Too good for it's own good. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Cool. Is there a story to go along with the guitar? |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Hey! That guitar looks just like the project guitar I was trying to design. So much for originality. Here was my photoshop enhanced combination of a 1537 and an Adamas I from last month ...
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Say Vince, change the head and bridge on your photoshop model, give it a shallow bowl, and you'd end up with one of these genuine factory Adamas prototypes . . .
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| Vince, Al has your photo shop project up for sale in his store. It is one of the ones I want to try if I can get down to see him when my orders come in.
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Location: So. Cal. | Another one: (no label inside, no signature from cwk2!)
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Is that the one Al has in his shop? |
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| So how many of these were ever made? And were they something Ovation was going to sell as a production piece? Or ?? What exactly are these other than very cool and very beautiful.
Al's has a slightly better look (if that's possible) I think it has a larger body. It has given me GAS since I first saw it. I need the carbon tops with the cutaway, modern electronics, and the slightly less collectable and not as valuable guitars for my gigs or I would have been working toward it a while ago. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by bvince:
Is that the one Al has in his shop? No, that's the one Playadamas has in his office. I would doubt if there were more than 5-10 of these built, at most. They were the prototypes for the 1537's. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | If I remember correctly, Al's is over-sized as compared to other O's/A's.... more Dreadish.... not the standard body size |
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| I put more pics up. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cas, can you see cloth in the finish? look closely. This is not a joke. There could be very fine fiberglass cloth in the poleseter finish. Tell you anout it tomorrow. Post some more pics please. |
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| no it just wood |
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| I looked real close, but would i see it. It looks like wood and clear coat. How many are there of this model. Does the factory have any records on it. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Had one but i sold it.I was told by the factory employee who sold it to me that three woodtop proto's were made just before the elite series came out.I dont think Al's was one of the three.It was a wonderful sounding guitar,i just never played it.Never liked the feel of the neck on it.Felt baseball batlike.Heres a pic of it.
Soon after i had the custom slothead woodtop adamaslike built.The neck on this one is perfect and the sound is amazing in my view.
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Now that i see the pics of the one at the factory.That might be the one i had.It did not have any label in it so not having the CWK2 signature brought my value up at least $1500 |
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Location: Paris/France | These Adamas Wood Top are so nice...
Congrats CAS, you're a lucky guy!! ;)
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Location: SoCal | Didn't a couple have the inlaids designed after Bill's wife's earrings?
Are there production serial numbers assigned to these? |
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Location: Munich, Germany | This is what the Collector's 2009 should look like.
I think the broccoli head and carved bridge is corresponding much better to the wood top than to a composite top.
Beautiful guitars!
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Location: 6 String Ranch | only the first two had the necklace inlays and Glen has one and I have the other.
There were very few of these made that cas has. I have one that was an experiment to see if we could use straight polyester finish which was very hard and would cold crack easily. We put a layer of real fine glass cloth, soaked it in the finish and put it on the top. The whole thing was then put against a flat plate and a the air sucked out and allowed to cure. Result is a nice flat shiney finish that is reinforced. In the end we didn't use this approach, too hard to do it. I found this guitar several years ago and it still sounds great. Has a finish crack though.... |
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Location: NJ | my guitar is a deadnaught size.
I also have a center sound hole that is dreadnaught sized.
they are boomers! |
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| Soon i might have it played on stage by the lead singer of the deftones. So i will get a pic to put on here. |
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Location: CT | Make sure he doesn't do a stage show with it and smash it into the drum kit. |
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1687 wood top proto