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Location: south east Michigan | Did you ever pass up a guitar purchase and later regret it?
My local music store of choice had a wood topped, Elite style millenium. I've never seen one since. To this day, after 7 years, I still regret not bringing it home. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Last spring I saw a used Martin OM-16 in a local music store. It had a repaired crack in the top and a crack in the side. They wanted $499 for it.
It played and sounded really great. I passed on it. About a month later I went back thinking if it was still there I might see if I could get it.
Gone. :( |
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Location: ms | That OM16 was a deal! Due to some health issues i let a Josh White that Tupperware had slip away. I think about what it would be like to have that guitar almost daily. The bad thing is if i would have got in touch with tupp he most likly would have helt on to it till i was better. My pride got the best of me. |
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Location: Central Florida | My "one that got away" story is a little different because I did actually purchase the guitar, but let it go after only a month because it needed a complete refret and at the time I thought it made more sense to unload it than sink more money into it (D'oh!).
Anyway, the guitar was a custom, non-production model, left-handed Elite cutaway with an artist depth (not mid-depth) bowl, ebony fingerboard and bridge and some kind of exotic wood headstock overlay. It had the "Custom Model" label inside and was an acoustically awesome sounding guitar. And, because of the artist bowl, it was extremely comfortable to play. I was a fool to let a couple hundred dollars (the cost of the refret job) stand in the way of me keeping that guitar. |
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Location: Michigan | Slipkid was that the one at Huber Breese ? I almost bought a Milleniuem from him back around 2000/2001 but I didn't know if it had a wood top on it or not.That was how I got started on Ovations.I was cheap & couldn't get Paul down to what I wanted to pay so I ended up leaving with a blue CS-257.I thought hell I probably won't like these plastic guitars anyway so why spend $1900.00 on something I will end up putting in the basement collecting dust.I still own the CS-257 and have added a Adamas 1598-MERB and a Mill-CB, and none are collecting dustin my basement.
I remember going back in the store and not seeing the Mill hanging on the wall any more I was Bummed.
On a bright note I found a brand new one last year from a music store that went out of business and sold all of his stuff on E-Bay.
I have always liked the necks on those guitars.GWB |
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Location: south east Michigan | Slipkid was that the one at Huber Breese ? Yup. That's the one. Credit where credit it due... Paul Huber does stock one "special" Ovation every year.
On a bright note I found a brand new one last year Not a wood-top... right?? Did you buy it?? |
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Location: Michigan | Yes I bought this one,like you said it got away once and when I found out that they only made 75 of them I thought that I would pull the trigger on this one.As far as a wood top I could not tell you it looks and feels like plastic on the outside but it feels like wood from the inside.Im not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes down to it.GWB |
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Location: south east Michigan | Oooo Oooo ..I'll be right over... :D |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | My local shop a few years ago was selling a CEO-5 and a Paul Simon signature for $1800. each. I should have bought them both. Dave |
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Location: south east Michigan | What's a CEO-5???
And was that Simon model a Martin?? |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | 15 years ago, my uncle, who was living in BC at the time, bought a '67 Martin D-35, from a university music student (fool) who was going to travel the world and needed the cash. He gave me a call when he got it, to tell me he thought he had found the perfect Martin for me.
A year later he brought it along when he came to visit. I played it and fell hard for the strong bass weighted voice and killer tone.
He offered it to me, but, with young kids and times being tough, there was no way I could justify it. Looking back I should have ran as fast as I could to the bank...ahhh, hind sight.
Anyway, he ended up leaving the guitar with me to play. I ended up having it for 14 years. This past August, he asked for it back. Can you say heart break?
I had tried over the last 8 years or so to buy it buy it, but he has had a change of heart and has decided to keep it.
I could easily spend the rest of my life with just that one guitar and be content, it is that nice to my ear and to play. Oh well, I had my chance and blew it...lesson learned, I hope.
The bright side of all this, is that it prompted me to send my 1112-4 to the factory for a makeover, and that turned out better than I had hoped for. From what I am hearing out of it now, this guitar has the potential to be as good or better than that D-35; time will tell.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've really just been looking for the last 2 years and haven't passed up too many in that time. I let a couple of John Lennon's go that I have some regrets about and there's a little voice in the back of my mind that says I shouldn't pass on the #47. |
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Location: ranson,wva | adamasI at a local pawnshop 3 months ago for $655.00 with case....shoulda bought it...jason |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Slipkid:
What's a CEO-5???
And was that Simon model a Martin?? Both Martins. The CEO-5 lead me to a D18VS, then to the HD28-VS. Very similar to the CEO-5. Probably the best sounding guitar I own. I've got a regular OM-42 on the way, which is basically the Paul Simon without the signature. In the end I got similar guitars to the ones that got away and only paid about double what I could have.
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Location: East Tennessee | Dave,
I played an OM-42 a couple of months ago the local GC. I can't remember the price but it was a really great sounding guitar. A little out of my price range,(for now). |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I try not to let them get away, but I have to live within a set guitar budget. The only one I regret not bidding more on is the black cutaway Adamas that Dave just won on Ebay. That would have been a nice match for my UTE. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I regret not buying my neighbor's '57 ES-125 3/4T and Goldtone tube amp from the same year. I was loaned this very this guitar and amp for about 5 years in the 1960's while he was an employed OTR trucker. I returned the guitar and amp when I moved out of my parents' house in 1969, then had a chance to buy both about three years ago, passed on it, then decided to go for it, but was a week too late. |
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Location: Scotland | I had the opportunity to buy Adamas Slothead #57 in the early '80's but couldn't afford it. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | For me it's the Fender Vibrolux Reverb amp that I owned in the late '70s - early '80s. I'm just thankful that the Preacher didn't go with it. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I had a Fender Vibrolux Reverb robbed from my garage. :( |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | #47, number 5.... |
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Location: NJ | Witko's StealthAdamas. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Early 80's I had a Guild semi-hollow and a Fender Twin Reverb amp I let go for about $1000. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Witko's Steel ResoUke |
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Location: PDX | Man, there are plenty of guitars that "get away". Too much G.A.S. and not enough scratch.
The most recent one is that Erich Solomon archtop i posted about a while back. Oh well.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by Slipkid:
I had a Fender Vibrolux Reverb robbed from my garage. :( You more likely had the amp burgled from your garage, unless it was taken from you at gunpoint (or any other weapon). Either way, tough loss. |
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Location: south east Michigan | You know... that didn't feel right when I typed it either.
I stand corrected. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | "Stolen" works. I get those burgled and robbed and assault and battery mixed up, too. Then there's the mortgagor, mortgagee. Hey, law school was tough! |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ..."hindsight" has an uncanny way of making armchair-"quarterbacks" and yesterdays-"buyers" appear BETTER than they'd ever be otherwise! |
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Location: Williston Park, NY | '62 Fender Strat. A guy I knew was trying to sell it to me for a guy HE knew for about $280 in '75 or '76. I played it but didn't buy it because something didn't seem right and I was afraid it was stolen.
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Last summer, I was walking towards my car, after I finished teaching a child (with autism) in her home, when a guy in a van pulled over. He asked me if I played guitar, to which I repled with a "yes." The man then asked me if I would be interested in purchasing a really nice guitar. From the back of his van, he showed me a deep bowl legend (model 1617 I think) in near mint condition. He claimed that he needed money really badly and was selling it to me for $300 -- right there on the street! I suspected that it might be stolen, so I walked away. He almost convinced me to make the acquisition when he offered the guitar for $250 for one last time. Being a bottom feeder, I would've purchased the guitar right there if I had the cash at that time. But my conscience got in the best of me, and I didn't want to feel responsible for purchasing stolen goods and/or supporting the man's bad habits (whatever they might be). In a way, a part of me felt that I should've gone to an ATM and made the acquisition, and yet a part of me also felt that I did the right thing by letting it go ... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Gil... I think you did the right thing. Buying from the back of a van from a guy passing buy just don't seem right.
And everytime you looked at it you would wonder. |
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Location: ms | I tried for years to buy back or replace my first 1868 elite. It really did not sound that great but it was very easy to play, a great couch guitar. I wrote tons of songs on that guitar. I also had a old Gibson Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe in fair shape. I got it for a great price and if i ever find one i can afford i`ll buy it. Its been around the world with the guy thats got it now i even saw it on tv once and in concert a few times. |
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The One That Got Away