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Location: Boise, Idaho | A blue one listed January 13. Pictures looked like they came from an Elderly ad. You guys can go find it. If I go back to try to post a link, I'll want it and won't ever finish this post. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | No Longer Available - $800 obo OK! Who got it?
But thankz for the Heads-Up, Mark. But I want a deep one with two epaulets and walnut knobbies. |
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Location: Japan | Listed yesterday and bought by someone like me! I would have contacted him right away too.
A lot of you guys hate the blue but it's one of my favorites, still. Unfortunately I gave my last one to my ex and all I have is these black ones now... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think the ad is confusing and means that the 1581 is no longer made, but this guitar is still available. |
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Location: closely held secret | As of last night, it is. The seller says he's had several emails, but hasn't sold it yet. |
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Location: NW Washington State | Looks like the whole ad was cut-and-paste from Elderly, including the pictures and "no longer available". Make sure he really has the guitar before sending money! |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Actually, if it's not at Elderly's they are not supposed to use their ad. If it truly IS for sale for that much, someone has a REAL opportunity to have a killer Adamas. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | One of you guys was supposed to buy it, so I can quit thinking about it. The ad says it's a deep bowl, but I thought the 1581s were mid bowls. OMA, you're awfully fussy. That's often a good way to save money. |
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Location: closely held secret | 1581's are deep bowls. I'm waiting to hear from the seller about pics. |
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Location: Cincinnati | just talked to someone at Elderly Instruments. they sold it 4 years ago. maybe the owner kept the pictures from when he bought it. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Anyone have a red one they want to trade for a blue one? That might interest me. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Mine is brown.
Not that keen on the colour but love the guitar.
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Location: closely held secret | If someone is interested in this, you can view current pictures of it here .
Seems like a nice guy. He's selling the guitar for his mother-in-law. |
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Location: Cincinnati | I'm definitely interested if no one else who has talked to the owner is. As a new member of the OFC and non-Ovation owner, I could defintely use some help. Is this worth $800? Is there anything in the pictures that looks like it could be a problem? He's offered to have a musician friend look it over. Any advice is appreciated. Please post it here, email me, or pm me. Thanks!
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Location: Cincinnati | if this works out for me, Mark, you won't have to think about it anymore.
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| kotadawg - that's a helluva guitar for $800. Assuming everything checks out on the up-and-up you could spend that much and do a lot worse. Personally, I'd take the chance. Even with some issues, a trip to the Mothership could fix them and you'd still wind up spending less than what these can sell for. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You could do a search for 1581 in the For Sale section and find that the last couple years these have sold for $1000 to $1500 and the single epaulets without the treble sound holes seem to be more uncommon and desirable by those who prefer a bias toward bass. Or you could just believe what I just said, look at Waskel's pictures and go for it. Maybe one of our Portland members could take your money and pick it up for you if it is as good in real life as it is in pictures. After a short test period, they might even ship it to you.
I think if it was red, I'd have had my daughter in Portland buy it for me. Then we'd wait for SWMBO to try to figure out how she spent $800 on the credit card we gave her for "emergencies." At this price, I'd call this an emergency. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Fretboard looks a bit worn but well worth the asking price of $800.
Kotadawg, you could look a lot longer and do a lot worse than this one. I would grab it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Yes, it's worth it. If I didn't already have one this one would no longer be available. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | That's a great buy :)
My first Ovation was a 1581.
By serial number it's a 94 model and I bought it in 2002 NOS/demo from a music store here in Brisbane.
At a tag price of $4899 I'm not surprised it had sat around. I paid $2000AUD
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Location: Boise, Idaho | This one may be gone. It was on ebay today and pulled off without any bids because it was no longer available for sale. I didn't get it. Did anyone here? |
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Location: closely held secret | He sent me pictures 3 1/2 hours ago. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Same pictures that he put on ebay. Maybe he decided he had enough interest he didn't need ebay. I think his BIN was $1200. |
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Location: closely held secret | Could be, Mark.
Odd that after being listed for 3 days on ebay, the only bid was $1.. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Thanks for all the help. I've emailed the owner several times and he's been very responsive to all of my questions. Time to take the plunge. I'll keep you posted. Thanks again.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Good Luck Jack! I have one of those and it has an unbelievable booming sound. Every time I have played it in public or concerts i have had all kinds of people comment on how cool it looks and how great it sounds (despite my playing). $800 is a STEAL! Looking at the pictures I would say the fretboard just needs a good cleaning with woodsoap and re-oiling. Slap a set of medium strings on it and you are gonna be amazed! |
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Location: Cincinnati | thanks, Vince. I was thinking (hoping) the same thing about the fretboard. hopefully that booming sound will cover up my mistakes. I've only been playing about 8 months.
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | ...Jack, did ya get it? |
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Location: closely held secret | Heard from the seller - somebody got it.
That's one less temptation today. |
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Location: Cincinnati | no, I didn't get it. I told him this morning I wanted to buy it. I just got back from a stress test and he said there was a bidding war on it. the price was higher than he had it listed for. someone on the East Coast bought it. I'm trying to find out what it went for. I'll just have to keep looking. I do appreciate everyone's help.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Dam. I should have just bought it the other night, then sold it when my wife complained. |
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Location: Cincinnati | he sold it for $1k. Trader Jim probably bought it but hasn't told anyone. |
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Location: closely held secret | I seriously thought about buying it to resell night before last. Just didn't have time to run around dealing with it. |
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Location: Cincinnati | unfortunately I don't have the knowledge of the models and values to immediately move on a deal like that one. that's one of the reasons I joined the OFC. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Dawg, next time something comes up, try putting the model number or name into a search of the For Sale section and General section of this board. I apologize if I started the feeding frenzy. I wonder how many points I could have gained with SWMBO if I had bought it and sold it for more than I paid for it. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Thanks, Mark. I've done that, but since I found out about the 1581 in this thread, I was waiting to see if someone here who had already contacted the seller was going to buy it. I thought Wabbit was going to buy it until he said for someone else to buy it. That's just the way I work.
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Location: closely held secret | Sorry, Jack. The best rule of thumb is, if you want something, go for it. There's lots of guitars out there, sooner or later everyone gets what they're looking for.
If I plan (or hope) to buy something, I either would have said so (confidence) or said nothing (stealth).
And in this case it would have been gone, as I only live about an hour from the seller! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | sneaky wabbit |
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Location: closely held secret | If I was that sneaky, I would have grabbed it. I like the single-side eppis but prefer the Optima on my 96 over the OP24.
In retrospect, I probably should have have got it. It was only $50 more than I paid for mine... :D |
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Location: Cincinnati | no reason to be sorry, Wabbit. I'm new here and didn't want to step on any wabbit feet. you should have driven over and picked it up. then you could have dropped it off at the UPS store for me afterwards. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | We have many lurkers for everyone who posts, so you better figure that once something gets posted here, there are several lurkers watching it. Some people check out Craigslist and ebay everyday, too. Heaven forbid. |
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Adamas 1581 $800 on Portland Craigslist