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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Wow. I've been watching for an Adamas II 12 string for 6 months now and haven't really turned up anything. I'm looking on Ebay, Reverb, Craigslist (nationwide), Al's site and the OFC (of course) and all I can find are the ME models.
Soooooo.......where have all those wonderful Adamas II 12 strings gone?
And here's the real rub. I used to own a beautiful black, deep body 12er that sounded like angels singing. But I decided I should sell it at tax time and felt I'd just pick up another at a later date....ouch! |
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| A pretty nice Adamas I 1688-8 just sold last week on eBay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ovation-Adamas-1688-8-12-String-Acoustic-El...
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Location: Bury St Edmunds England | Just had a look and wow what a serious amount of bidding! I am often checking eBay for Adamas guitars, usually just out of curiosity. Having said that I stumbled on a red burst 1581 from 1983 and bought it for 1700 US dollars. By the time I paid shipping, duty and VAT it cost me £1400 to get it to the UK. Where do you live? If I spot anything I'll let you know. |
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Location: Bury St Edmunds England | Just read your post again and see that you are in the States. If I find something on eBay UK are you up for paying the extra shipping and likely tax costs? |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | The driver behind this is the closure of the Mothership. You can no longer sell your Adamas 12 string with the view to picking another one up later. 6 strings are much more common, but will eventually become rare. I'd have to be really desperate to sell any Adamas. |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Jim, one went to me and it will not go elsewhere so far. They are wonderful guitars.
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Tafkar is correct. Closing the mother ship means that no more Adammi are being made...which means hold onto your Adamas 12 strings. It seems like the ME models are still relatively easy to grab. But the 12 string Adamas II models are rare birds to be sure. I'd love to see Carvin Guitars (or someone like them) purchase the tooling and rights to Adamas guitars.
Bernie: I keep looking at your guitar collection. I'm not sure when I will be back visiting in Germany, but I'd sure love to stop in and check out that collection of yours! Wow! |
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Location: Jet City | stellarjim - 2014-12-22 8:17 PM ... I'd love to see Carvin Guitars (or someone like them) purchase the tooling and rights to Adamas guitars... Adamas by Peavey maybe? They're already in the composite market with CA. I'd rather see Hartley running things than the Fender XXXX-heads (pick whatever 4 letters you like) |
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Location: Utah | There is too much shared technology between O's and A's to make it seem likely FMIC would sell off the A. Bowls, preamps, pickups, design elements, etc. I'd rather seem FMIC spin off or sell off the entire O/A operation to a new independent owner. |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Flysig:
I'd love to see Carvin buy the Ovation - Adamas guitars from Fender. They make great guitars right here in America and they currently don't have much in the way of acoustic Guitars. They have only thinline models...which sound rather poor acoustically. |
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Location: Mexico City | stellarjim, first, if you choose to sell your Adamas II instead of your 1598 (I have one) it´s because you liked the Melissa´s the best, isn´t it? And if you miss the guitar you sold, Why not contact the buyer? Just ask politely if he would be interested on selling the guitar back, at least you tried. Even offer a bonus like more money or anything else. |
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Location: Bury St Edmunds England | There's this one on ebay item number 350988234912. I think it an SMT mid-bowl. |
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Location: moline,illinois | There's an adamasII 12 string on Denver Craigslist.its a 1685-8 and the guy wants 3499$.a little pricey for me but if you really went one here you go. |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | The Denver Craigslist is selling 2 Adamas guitars for $3500. So it could be a nice little bargain to buy both and sell the 6 string. Unfortunately, coming up with the $3500 is a rather long stretch for me. I emailed him and so far, he is not willing to separate the 2. Why???? I have no idea. |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | I just looked at the Denver Craigslist guitars again. The seller has changed the price scheme. The title reads 6 string and 12 string ($3141). But that's not exactly what he means. The price has been changed from $3499 for both, to $3500 for the 12 string and $3141 for the 6 string. Definitely out of my price range now. |
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Where have all the Adamas II, 12 Strings Gone???