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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Hello everyone. Being that the Ovation Ultra GS had bodies made by Samick and assembled here is America, who made the Ultra GP in Korea? It is obviously a well made guitar with the set neck. Does anyone know what company made this guitar for Ovation in Korea, and are they still making guitars today? Thanks...Paul Hebert |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Samgak, same as the others. It died at the same time too. |
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Location: SoCal | Along with making guitars under their own name, they make a lot of guitars for a lot of people. Do a pretty reasonalble job too. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Did Samick also make the Takamine solid bodies? The gx-200 & gx-100 share some similarities with Ovation GP & GS models. |
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Location: Houston, TX | w2, maybe I'll get it right this time...
Samick bodies, Korean necks, Schaller hardware, Dimarzio super 2 distortion pickmeups.
The real magic from these guitars comes from where the were assembled.
Anyone, anyone? |
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Location: NoHo, CA | Here here! Ovation did put the mojo on 'em!
Samick is making a new guitar that looks a lot like the GP. In fact it's called the "Ultra"matic. I'll still take a real GP anyday. |
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Location: Houston, TX | Ickygoo, my "anyone, anyone" was intended to be a quiz. It's from some movie, I think it was Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Where were they assembled? Anyone? Anyone? |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I thought it was "The Wonder Years" and the same guy that did the "dry eyes" commercials. |
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Location: NJ | Ben Stein.
same guy.
Used to be a speech writer for Nixon.
Also of "Win Ben Stein's Money" fame. |
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Location: NoHo, CA | Guitars were assembled in North Carolina. |
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Originally posted by cwk2
February 14, 2002 03:13 PM
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OK Here's the story
GS and the GP stood for guitar strat and guitar paul. the bodies were made by samick and were assembled in North Carolina. Jerry Freed who was with IMC at that time convinced the marketing people that this idea would work and yes I bought into it too. Korean wood, American or Schaller parts, assembled in the states. Sounds good in theory. To top it off the marketing pukes felt it needed a different name so they were the hard bodies. anyhow they didn't work.
After these there was a very short run of guitars completely made in Japan at the Fugi Gen factory I recall. Another stunning nonsuccess. After this I said "get the message guys, we can't do SOLID bodies so quit trying" 2-3 years later we bought Hamer as a way to have a real good solid body guitar. Great guitar, Frank and Jol are great too and the Kaman Music performance with that guitar hasn't set the world on fire either, but at least it hasn't died.
The PF-22
We were still trying to have a soild body in the early 80's. Peavey had just come out with their first guitar and bass which had satin finish. Hartley also had just put out an ad that the headline was "It took me 22 years to create this amp" and showed him sitting on the amp holding the guitar. Randy Hess, ad mgr, rest his soul, said we should do an ad with me sitting like Frank in the Phi Zappa Crappa poster, on the can holding the guitar and the headline would be "it took me 22 minutes to create this guitar" Since we were going to kick Peavey's ass with this model we called it the Peavey Fucker. Hence the PF-22. the true story
Years later I told Hartley about it at a trade show and we both had a good laugh over it
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Good info Miles. It's neat to see the history of these guitars. Also I enjoyed the reference to Hartley Peavey. I am a big fan of the old T-60 guitar. I have had a few, and I just picked up another one yesterday. I have many hours of practice on the old T-60. It weighs a ton, but I love em!...Paul Hebert |
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Location: Houston, TX | icky, click "my profile" at the top of the page for a private message. |
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Who really made the Ultra GP?
