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| i just got this guy off of ebay for 40 bones. couldn't find any information about it on the internet, other than a couple reviews on harmony central which may or may not be for the same guitar....
i am assuming this should be a japanese made (or possibly korean) model from the 80s.... anybody know anything about it? thanks... joe |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Other than it looks like a Strat knockoff with an odd looking label decal...
Then again I suppose you would have noticed that too...
Have a real hard time thinking this is any kind of OVation. I don't think the applique on the headstock is a label, I think maybe it's an audience cue :eek:
Does it light up? |
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Location: GA USA | I did a google on "applause strat" and came up with several items, including a thread from this forum. Nothing was complimentary. Generously donate that guitar to a middle schooler and teach him power chords. It's doubtful that an open chord would sound in tune on it. But who knows? You may have the only good one. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Ko-reehan. $40 is a good price, I wouldn't go over 50. Grade school power chords sounds about right. |
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Location: NJ | I seem t'remember seeing a red number like that one popping up a couple times here . . . .
lottsa' mirrors in the pic, and such . . . |
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Location: Paris/France | If I'm right, these guitars were made around 1988 and were very cheap.
I've got an old ad from 1988 that said "1350 to 2000 french francs". Around 135$us to 200$us in 1988 (probably cheaper in USA).
APPLAUSE SOLID BODY AD
I've never found anything else about these models.
J :) |
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Location: Tennessee | Somewhat similar to the one I got my son ... although his is labeled a Celebrity and it has a dinky style headstock not the Strat style.
This one is made in Korea. But well done, to be honest. I've played a lot of worse guitars. I picked it up the other day, and I couldn't believe it was in tune ... my boy just got done doing some dive bombing. The Ovation labeled floyd rose works well. Not sure who made the pickups but they seem a lot like EMGs.
I paid $125 for this one and it was worth every penny.
I see hot chicks in this boy's future. ;) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Maybe a llama too. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Nice hair, too. I'm jealous. People used to tell me my hair was so long that they couldn't see my face. Now my face goes so far up my head you can't see my hair. |
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| i read a review on harmony central that seems to describe this guitar, and it was a positive one.
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Applause/Stratocaster-1...
my thought is that even low end guitars from the 80s are often made of better wood than a lot of medium to high end guitars nowadays, so i basically figure if i need to replace the pickups and electronics and maybe the neck with a WD or mightymite i might have something halfway decent. |
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what can you tell me about this applause electric?