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September 2002
Posts: 806
Location: Seymour, Tennessee | I was walking to the shower yesterday and a familiar shape caught my eye, a very small red-Burst colored Elite Ovation.
I went over and started talking to the two guys (one was playing a flat-back, sorry I'm a self described guitar snob so the flatty didn't even remotely get my interest brewing) and asked to look at the guitar.
It was really pretty from a distance but realllly bad close up. Horrible workmanship on the neck.
Before anybody throws the "Useless with out Pics" thing, I will get some of it here soon.
It looks like maybe a 5/8th size Elite and again, pretty from a distance ad again, up close, UUUGGGHHH.
It has an Ovation-style head, body, textured round-back, and has "P M" embossed on the head stock.
Sounds really bad too.
I spent probably 3o minutes trying to get it in tune for the guy.
Then it promptly lost the tuning in about 5 minutes.
They are apparently made in Turkey and the guy bought it in a Haji (no offense intended) Shop for $135.00.
Anybody ever heard of these?
I was considering buying one to put on My son's wall at home as a decoration if I can haggle the price down some.
They are really quite pretty until you play it or get too close.
Anyway, just thought I'd see if anybody had heard of them.
I'll work on getting some pics. | |
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May 2008
Posts: 4996
Location: Phoenix AZ | There's dozens, if not hundreds, of plastic backed ovation knock offs from all over the world. Even saw one from China where the bowl was a woven basket. They are all crap and not even worth the pennies they sell for. | |
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December 2006
Posts: 6268
Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I played a Philippine made woodcrafter's round back masterpiece, similar to the one below. Although it was slap-dab gorgeous, it sounded so dead and had pizz poor tuners. BTW, it was a wall hanger, for reasons both good and bad.
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