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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I have owned at least one of these before.
When I was slumming with Celebrities this was top of the line for that brand.
Made in Korea, Solid top, gold-ish tuners (when they were new), OP-30 and an Original wide pickup.
I saw this and just had to grab it.
(Tempting evilBay pic)
No case.... But came with a bunch of stuff for "padding"
(but what happened to my HAIR?)
New Toys are always Nice. 
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| Lovely guitar with a beautiful burst. There's not much love here for the Korean models but I have to confess that I love mine and at the end of the day if your budget is limited then its nice to have options to buy a new Ovation.
Enjoy - it looks lovely!
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Nice find Arthur .. !!! |
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Location: When?? | I know that model. Looks like a good snag ya made there, Arthur. So is the slum better or worse than you remember it?
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | My previous one was New England Burst.
I did take the CSE44 out today, and it worked well. OP-30 Preamps always do.
It has a Solid Spruce Top, but that top is kinda thick. About 3/16" thick.
But it has good intonation and such. CSE's were that Top of the Budget line.
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Location: Muenster/Germany | Wonderful sunburst! And the colour of the epaulets perfectly matches the paintwork. (Not all Ovations are so fine-tuned, very often the colours of the several guitar parts absolutely don´t mesh with each other).
What kind if inlays are in the fretboard? Appears to be abalone?
To make it perfect, I would replace the white plastic saddle on the pickup with the black one.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | DetlefMichel - 2017-09-22 3:26 AM
What kind if inlays are in the fretboard? Appears to be abalone?
"Mother of Toilet Seat" 
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Location: Yokohama, Japan | Nice pick-up OMA! The fret board extension doesn't look like the usual Celebrity Deluxe models at all. Those CSEs are pretty special and take home a pretty good price in auctions over here. They're like US Elites only assembled in Korea with glue-on necks instead of bolt-ons. Assembly consistency seems to be the determining quality factor. How does she compare in build quality to her NH counter parts?
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Location: Katmandu | What kind of bracing does she have? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Arumako = How does she compare in build quality to her NH counter parts?
It is a Celebrity. And a used one at that. But I have owned this, and two other CSE's that I am sure of, and they were all pretty nice. Like I said, the top seems a bit thick...
So it doesn't vibrate as freely as it could.
But for $235, it is okay. Plus I got it to plug-in to a battery-powered "CubeStreet" amp.
It has an OP-30 preamp which has more output than an OP-Pro.
But this CSE44 has a Wide "original" pickup, so I could swap an OP-Pro into it.
It is a nifty little guitar.
I still need to find that best Strings for it.
Leonarmccoy = What kind of bracing does she have?
Quintad bracing... Or the Celebrity copy of such.
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NGD -- Slummin' with a CSE44