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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | 1968 Ovation Classic Shiny bowl, "Tootsie Roll" Bridge, Ex. Cond. Vint Classical
This one is on e-bay with 3 days left @ $900
Does this one belong to anybody here? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Moved here (General Posting) from the For Sale section. |
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Location: SW Mintsoda | Link:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-Ovation-Classic-Shiny-bowl-Tootsie-Rol...
That's very dangerous/tempting - cuz I could convert it to a lefty... |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | There is one of these for $600 at Cowtown in Las Vegas but it doesn't have a shiny bowl. Good condition though! |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | This is Willa's Beauty!
Knowing that this one is less than an hour away from me just kills me, I would do bodily harm for this Sweetie!!
I wonder if I could sell used and abused body parts to get the money together! 
Edited by Nancy 2015-08-24 10:49 AM
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Location: SW Mintsoda | naellis58 - 2015-08-24 10:47 AM
I wonder if I could sell used and abused body parts to get the money together!
That sounds like a sketchy "proposition." I won't ask what you had in mind...  |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I will give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she has a few Squier Affinity Strat bodies and pickguards laying around and would like to convert them to cash. |
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Location: Katmandu | The problem with those shiny bowls is that they slip off your lap. Use of guitar straps advised. |
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | leonardmccoy - 2015-12-19 7:58 PM
The problem with those shiny bowls is that they slip off your lap. Use of guitar straps advised.
You could just stand up and play. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Here we go again. I play my shiny-bowl K1111 RI sitting down all the time without a strap and don't have a problem. Learn to play properly or lose the big gut and it won't slide off your lap and you'll do yourself a favor. There is just as much shiny, slippery surface on your leg with a flat back guitar as there is with a deep bowl Ovation. |
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Location: Texas | What Mark said. I play my 67 daily. It is played by everyone that comes to visit. No one seems to struggle with it at all. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Just use a strap, even when playing sitting, and it won't slide off your knee. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't have a flat backed guitar to prove or disprove my claim, but my shiny bowl K1111 RI measures 4 1/4 inches of flat surface to rest on your leg. Someone measure a flat back guitar and tell me whether I'm right or wrong. Another thing that will help is to use a footrest if the chair or stool you sit on is too tall so your thigh slants downward. |
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Location: Texas | I will admit that shiny bowls do not lean against the wall well on carpet, unless you turn them around facing the wall...The woodies have an edge there. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | On topic, and I LOVE to post this photo for those buried in snow this time of the year.
Yes, the shiny bowl guitars may slip off your knee, but they make for great photos. Below is a December shot of my Arizona blue skies and palm trees ... refected on the bowl of a Josh White shiny bowl guitar !!!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I stand corrected. I just measured a Brand X guitar and it's 4 3/4 inches deep where it sits on your thigh. That gives a half inch more surface to keep it from sliding off. Of course, you could always tilt it so that sharp edge digs into your thigh and stays put. |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | I'm confused. Mine came with a small black rubbery vinyl sticker where the guitar rests on your thigh when played sitting. Is mine the only one with this rubbery piece?
Also, I'm confused at how many post their desire for a shiny bowl when someone posts a sales listing somewhere, yet no one buys them. This has a starting bid at $900, with no bids. I don't believe I'd sell my Deluxe Balladeer (which I bought new in the spring of '69) for $900. Maybe they have more value to their owners than to prospective buyers? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think Ovation put those stickers on several models for a few years. My 97 Collector has a similar gritty surface built into the bowl. I don't know when they started or stopped.
You're probably right about guitars and most other things in general having more value to their owners than to prospective buyers. OMA gets most of the Ovations that were undervalued by their owners. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I am blessed to have gotten a Re-Issue Shiny Bowl at a disgustingly cheap price.
And I really appreciate it.
I have also been known to overpay for beaters, so it all works out in the end.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The rubber sticker on the waist/bowl crossed the transition between shiny bowls and textured bowls. The later shiny bowls had them, as did the first of the non-shiny bowls. I guess people figured that you didn't need them on the textured bowls and at some point as MIB says, they started buildign in a little "rough patch" in that area. So the stubble would also act to bette rsecure the guitar (for those needing it) |
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Shiney bowl on e-bay, anybody here's