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Location: Amador County California | I have a 1981 Country Artist model 1624 electric srl# 261704 that looks like the day I bought it in late '81 not dings, like new. The top has aged a to a nice honey color with an exact book matching. I have the original brown heavy duty case and the hang tag book (less the cover), that shows how to string and talks about the electronics. I would sell it for $400.00 plus $40.00 for ship/ins. If it cost more than $40.00 to ship and insur, I will pay the differace. The last time I sent a guitar to Martin, I think it was $45./$65. I don't recall. My email address it bcturtle2001@yahoo.com |
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Location: Midland, MI | What's the difference between a 1674 and a 1624? There was a 1674 that closed on fleaBay (1982 vintage, looked to be decent) about a week ago. |
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Location: Burbank | 1624 is no cut-away, 1674 is a cut-away, both A/E. |
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Location: SoCal | Both good guitars, the cutaway is fairly rare and more desirable. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Thanks for the answers, guys. Seems like a good deal, but I'm out of play. =( |
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| personally I prefer the non-cutaways. but chocolate or vanilla you choose. I like the visual symmetry. and the 3 O's I currently own are deep-bowl nons.
but my esteemed colleague above is probably right as to the rarity.
Glenn
1758(autumn),1118Bette,1111Veronica. |
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Location: Amador County California | I talked to a rep at Ovation and the 1674 is harder to find (I'm Barry the one with the 1624)As far as the differance between the two models, (he says) is the cutaway only. If you watched that ebay sale last week on the 1674 you noticed it went for $820.00 with a soft gig bag. If you saw all the nice pictures the seller had, except for the cutaway, you were looking at my 1624 |
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Location: Midland, MI | Is it a bad sign that I can't remember whether my Elite is a cutaway or not? I think it is, and I'd probably put money on it. Just not a lot of money.
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Location: SoCal | senior moment |
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Location: Burbank | Mental-pause! |
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Location: Midland, MI | Senior moment. I'm closer to being a senior in high school than a senior citizen! HARUMPH! Ok, well, maybe not. At my geetar lesson tonight I was talking to my instructor about a biography I had read last week. Was of a famous guitarist, really good, jazz, New York scene, studio work, disappeared, moved to New Jersey, little seaside town, popped back up, disappeared again. Couldn't remember his name for the life of me, which seriously irritated me. Came home and fifteen minutes later, while cleaning up the kitchen, 'Tal Farlow' pops into my head. Fsck. I must need more sleep or something. Or red wine. Yeah, that's it. I'm going to get a glass of cab.
Oh, and I went and checked. Has a cutaway. |
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Location: NJ | Crusty;
There's a really GOOD Argentinean cab out now called "Kaiken" . . . I HIGHLY recommend it! ;) |
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Location: Midland, MI | And it's under $10 from what I can find on google! YAY! A couple of buddies and myself have an ongoing deal (yeah, yeah, I think I've already mentioned this) to find the best bottle of wine for <=$10. So, I guess the Kaiken can play!
Have you had it? Would you call it good? I see it's from purchased grapes, which isn't a bad thing (my all time favorite, 1999 Smoking Loon Cab. Sau. is purchased grapes)...I'll have to get the wine guy to order some if they don't have it. Thanks for the tip! |
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Location: NJ | Wow! . . If you can get it for under $10 out there, GRAB it! . . . we paid $13, and that was at case discounts . . . check out Yangarra Park (Aussie), as well . . . one of my faves! . . |
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