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| Hi, I am selling an Adamas 1687-8 on ebay, its a 1979 bought in 1981. The guitar looks like new apart from a coule of tiny nicks the guitar hasn't been used hardly and is very much "new old stock". Its got the wide neck, and the back is different to the others I have seen, the round plate is in the centre near the bottom, and the gold "Adamas by Ovation instruments inc made in USA" is at the top! The price may seem high to Americans but in the UK we pay twice the price for USA guitars, and the reissue 1687 sells for £2,617.
Here. http://www.guitarandampshop.co.uk/acatalog/Adamas_W2097-CBV_CVT_Cob...
This is the guitar I am selling on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280683008319#h... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | That's the one to have!
If I did not have an original wide neck slothead I would be all over this one!
That's a beauty....good luck with the sale! |
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Location: Germany | Nice guitar! Wonder why the model number is 1687 and not 1689 which was the wide neck version. Good luck with the sale!
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| "Wonder why the model number is 1687 and not 1689 which was the wide neck version."
I only know what I have been told by the original owner, I am selling it for him, I would have had it myself if the neck was not the wide version because I have got child size hands. So it should be 1689 then? |
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| I have just looked and the label inside says 1687-8. It is the wide neck version though, its very wide. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I have just looked and the label inside says 1687-8. It is the wide neck version though, its very wide. Beautiful guitar in excellent condition with all of the case candy.
However, in difference to what your friend told you, this is a standard neck width Adamas I 1687-8 made in 1979.
If it were wide neck it would have been labeled a 1689-8.
You might want to revise your eBay auction... |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | It may be labeled 1687 but it is obviously a wide-neck 1689. |
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| It telling you it is a WIDE NECK, Fact. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | yeah it looks like a wide one.
Was it always a UK guitar?
Rose Morris, who was the distributor at the time could have switched the neck.
Their main repair guy at the time was Adrian Legg, but I digress....
The coolest thing about the guitar is that you still have the book. |
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| From the book.  |
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| The guitar was purchased from new in the UK. |
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| Hard to know to which of your multiple for sale posts scattered all over the forum (spam, anyone?) one should respond.
You should know this Beal character is the one who signed your friggin' guitar. Now if you want to keep arguing with the person who ran the company for over 20 years, and whose dad founded the company, please do so and show yourself for a fool.
Oh, and coming onto a fan forum for the sole purpose of accessing a target audience to sell your guitar, and then spamming with multiple posts in violation of Forum rules and arguing belligerently with Forum members who know a helluva lot more about the brand and its history than you do, isn't going to make you a sale. Just sayin'. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Easily solved, sticking a frick'n ruler up to the nut and post a picture of it. If it's 1 7/8", end of story...otherwise you're trying to sell something that may have a lower resale value than what being advertised. |
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| Ok Tim, I will do that! Thats a good idea. |
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Location: Scotland | There's no need, it is definately a wide-neck. Anyone who is familiar with these guitars can see that. The confusion has been caused by an incorrect label or as Bill suggested Rose Morris might have swapped the neck in the UK. The guitar is labeled as a 1687 rather than the correct 1689. Stuff like this happens all the time. I had a 1617 Legend with a foil label embossed with 1117. When a factory is putting out a lot of product, occasional glitches occur.
The issue that members here have taken you to task over, is your insistance that you are correct on a minor detail which actually has nothing to do with the guitar in question. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Yea Tim: Coast Guard to the rescue! ;) |
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| So that makes the guitar unique' in a way? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | yeah, "unique" . . . like a pair of mismatched socks. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I always wanted a Gibson with Fender on the headstock. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by dark bar:
I always wanted a Gibson with Fender on the headstock. Now THAT would be unique.... |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by AdamasUK:
So that makes the guitar unique' in a way? Unique? Not really.... |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Originally posted by AdamasUK:
So that makes the guitar unique' in a way? Unique? Not really....
There's about ten others on the exact same subject… |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by AdamasUK:
So that makes the guitar unique' in a way? Yeah. The same way that tits and a dick makes a Thai ladyboy unique. It's a screw-up that does not make a rare and very cool guitar any more or less valuable. |
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Location: Thailand | Hey man, I'm Thai.
Don't mention or compare like this.
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