Joined: January 2006 Posts: 22
| Hello to all,
a few minutes ago I found this Ovation guitar at ebay/Germany, but the seller is in Japan. I was looking "worldwide".
Here it is:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Ovation-30th-Anniversary-MODEL-Guitar-with-h...
I hope you can use this link and have a look at this very special guitar.
I think I know a lot about Ovation and the guitars from the 1980 and the 1990 years, but I have never seen this 30th Anniversary model, the only 30th Anniversary Ovation guitar is the so called Book-Elite, the 1768-7LTD.
And I am a prowd owner of a Book Elite.
Can you help me to find out what type of guitar it is? I would say it is a nice Elite or Custom Elite in Sunburst colour (but a Custom Elite has an Abalone Binding). I don't think that they made a special 30th Anniversary for Japan ?!?!?!
I have not found this type at "Ovation Gallery com, Ovation Tribute com, nowhere in the web.
I hope my English is not too bad and you can understand all I wrote.
Best wishes from Germany
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Joined: October 2012 Posts: 1034
Location: Yokohama, Japan | helmut-pl - 2017-10-27 3:38 AM ...I have not found this type at "Ovation Gallery com, Ovation Tribute com, nowhere in the web. I hope my English is not too bad and you can understand all I wrote. Best wishes from Germany Hi helmut-pl, Yup, the comments made up to this point are right-on. It's a 30th Anniversary Japan market only model. As the Japanese brochure reveals, there were only a 100 of these made including a few Adamas in the line-up. A friend of mine owns one that was involved in a bit of a mishap. Several years ago, I was able to have the Mother Ship repair it, and hand-carry her back to Japan. She really is a beauty and a dream to play... Ebony fingerbaord and walnut bridge with the signature feather logo. The sound board is AAA Sitka Spruce with just the right amount of bling! She comes with the OP-X pre-amp, and sounds incredible with or without an amp. Just amazing craftsmanship from the folks at New Hartford. Back in the day, the price was 300,000 JPY which translated to about $3,000. Valued today, that would be like 700,000 JPY or $7,000 street. About equivalent to what the Japanese stores are asking for the 50th Anniversary models. The price you show in the German auction seems a bit high, but then with shipping and customs costs, I'd have no way of really knowing. These guitars are rare even in Japan, and never come up for auction. I had the opportunity to play my friends' while it was in my possession (about 1-week). After, I carried it back from one of my business trips (thanks to John Budny for arranging the repairs in time for the hand-carry back to Japan!), I returned her to my buddy, who put away his Martin upon the NNS778's safe return. I had withdrawals for several days after returning her. Sorry about the long winded response, but I hope this helps!
Edited by arumako 2017-10-27 11:09 PM
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Joined: October 2012 Posts: 1034
Location: Yokohama, Japan | DetlefMichel - 2017-10-27 8:40 PM
...IMHO way to expensive. It´s just a standard elite with a feather. The price would be (in Japan) ok for the top-of-the-line model in +mint+ condition.
Great price advice right out of Germany, DeflefMichel! Got all excited by the feather and missed the details on the guitar! The one for sale is the NNS778-9FM - basically a standard mid-bowl Elite...
Edited by arumako 2017-10-29 11:19 PM
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