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Location: SoCal | http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2551818226
Anyone know anything about this model - when made, approximate value, quality, number made, etc.???
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hurricane from the Storm series made in 71 or 72. Great guitar, and not many made. I've heard the infamous 800 number, but that seems to be a popular number when anyone asks how many of a short run were made. I have also heard less than 100. Not sure anyone really knows, at least I haven't seen it posted. I have one with the original "bowling ball" case. As far as value... good question. Like any other Ovation, it is worth exactly what someone is willing to spend. |
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Location: SoCal | Gets me excited but was just notified that the seller of a Black 12-string Custom Legend 6759 closed the auction 2 days early for my $650!! The seller is a musician, Ken Stacey)studio/toured with a number of names...this was used on Elton John tour. Don't care about that but would rather get a guitar from a player than a pawn shop.
Never knew much about the "other" line of Ovations but through posts and pictures on OFC and eBay, getting interested. Have always enjoyed the difference in the Ovation line...even though I have a wonderful KOA wood Martin and Les Paul Studio - just seems like I always reach for one of the Ovation. Must be a spell they put on them at Ovation, part of "final finishing." |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It will be interesting to see how much he gets for it. I just sold this one last week for half what he's asking.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2549540753&category=2384&rd=1
Everyone has a different estimate, but my best info is less that 200 were made. Most were red and a few sunburst. It's not well known that there were actually two different neck widths. The narrow one is a 6-string width (1-11/16) strung up with 12 strings. Certainly not designed for fat fingers, although I preferred this one over the wider (more standard) one.
Probably not too many of these survive today, although OFC member Wayne McF. tells me there is one nailed to the ceiling of a strip club in Dallas. Go figure.
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Location: SoCal | Not sure how but I missed that one...I would have pumped it up a bit.
Running out of room on the walls, guess I'll have to take down some pictures. This is contagious. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Dave
These old Ovations are going for 10 cents on the dollar, and I ain't got a dollar. I would have loved to have had that one, and I missed it, I don't spend enough time checking Ebay. Just a sugestion, but not a promise, if you are going to list an old Ovation give us a heads up.
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Location: NJ | he did. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I listed it in the "For Sale" section a good two weeks before it finally sold. Dave |
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Location: SoCal | In case I get to Dallas, which strip club? Just to check the guitar of course. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Sorry Dave
I've been avoiding the For Sale section for fear of a GAS blowout before I get what I need to buy some of those treasures, I may never get there as the same lawyer that is supposed to settle for my accident is having to negotiate some back taxes with the IRS, he's been pretty good so far so I try to be optimistic. My goal is to die before they get anything or spend it all before they know what I have. The IRS has a way of sending these letters that cause anxiety unless you learn to ignore the bastards. If any of you members work for the IRS and are spying on our posts, I hope your Barre chord finger gets permanently caught up your ass, and your treasured Silvertones have to be sold to pay for the operation to remove it (the finger) and reinstall it in your mouth, where it was before it got stuck in your ass. Love the IRS
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Ovation 12-string archtop - eBay
