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Location: Phoenix AZ | For Sale: 1768 LTD BOOK ELITE
Spruce top, aged honey color
Abalone top binding
Walnut bridge
Ebony fingerboard with 1966-1996 inlay
Abalone binding on fingerboard
Walnut peghead facing with abalone trim
Deep bowl cutaway
Schaller tuners with pearloid buttons
OPTIMA preamp with 1/4 and XLR outputs
Includes hardshell case
Note - there are no marks whatsoever on the guitar. What you see in the photos are reflections.
Two years ago I sent the guitar back to the factory and had the neck and headstock custom gloss finished. It was an expensive upgrade but well worth it. Below is a before and after photo.
Guitar is in 100% mint condition with no visible signs of wear. This is an absolute museum piece and a real slice of Ovation history. Comes with original hardshell case which is also in excellent condition.
$1350. incl. FREE FedEx shipping within the 48 US States
Email or PM me if interested.
Also let me know if you would like the matching MM68 LTD BOOK MANDOLIN and I can offer a package deal. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Terrific deal. If somebody buys this, I'd be willing to swap my stock model straight up for this glossy neck/headstock model. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Either you took that pic before you blew your achilles or it's somebody else in the reflection. |
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Location: closely held secret | I wouldn't be surprised if his injury was caused by excessive kneeling to take pictures of guitars. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That's what I figured. I didn't believe that long distance running BS, except that he does have the carbo loading stuff down for such a little guy. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Either you took that pic before you blew your achilles or it's somebody else in the reflection. Yup. That photo was a couple of years ago before the glossing. I can't kneel right now - shut up Cliff.
BTW I was the original owner of that guitar back in '96. Actually the oldest continuously owned Ovation I've got. |
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Location: PDX | Too bad you went and had the neck glossed .... :)
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Location: Tennessee | Looks like the GC TRC Bandito has been at your house.
Nice guitar. But I mustn't. Really. Seriously. I must ignore the Paypal balance. Somebody please buy this soon. |
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Location: SoCal | Ok, I gotta confess here. I'm right there with Toby on the neck glossing. There was a time in the 90's when Ovation didn't seem to do anything to the neck and headstock and I never cared for the way the guitars looked. To my eye, the difference between a glossed and unglossed neck and headstock is night and day.
For a while, in the late 80's, Ovation went with a satin finish on the necks. My 87C has that. It's fine, but any less finish just isn't right to me. But I know people who can't stand a glossed neck. I love them..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hell of a good price too.
Anybody who has heard one of these or an 87C should be breakin the piggy bank. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by g8r:
GAS :eek: Get in line g8r. ;)
And here I sit without nearly enough Tum$ in the medicine cabinet. The guitar and mando both would be history now if I had a job that could actually support this habit!  |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Either you took that pic before you blew your achilles or it's somebody else in the reflection. I can't kneel right now - shut up Cliff.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Just because you might own an '87 Collector doesn't mean you don't also need a Book Elite ...
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Location: NJ | ok I'll say it
how can it be so mint if it has a trss rod cover onit that dosen't belong and three extra holes and a gloss neck.
that's not mint to me it is not within factory specs.
ok I said it |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Might not be factory spec'd or entirely original but I would still think it could qualify as (and very probably is knowing Toby) "mint". But I guess that could be subjective. As long as it's disclosed as such I don't think it's wrong to list it that way. Just my .02. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | "Mint" condition and "Original" condition are two different things.
I saw a mint condition '54 Chevy. It was painted with flames on the side. Absolutely stunning job. Hardly original.
If you disagree then use the word "Pristine". |
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Location: South of most, North of few | OK, now I have to say it. Where the hell did "Toby" come from? |
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Location: closely held secret | ...Texas. |
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Location: SoCal | I don't think there were any holes drilled in the application of the truss rod cover....... |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I don't think there were any holes drilled in the application of the truss rod cover....... stick to double Knot spyin.....
screws don't make holes? |
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Location: ms | the gloss adds a nice touch. |
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Location: NJ | ". . screws don't make holes? . ."
Knowing Witko, I wouldn't be suprised if it was held on w/double-stick with severed screwheads glued onto the TRC . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by cliff:
". . screws don't make holes? . ."
Knowing Witko, I wouldn't be suprised if it was held on w/double-stick with severed screwheads glued onto the TRC . . . Bingo. With screw heads carefully cut off the shafts. The man's positively anal..... |
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Location: NJ | you would know . . . |
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For Sale: 1768 LTD BOOK ELITE - CUSTOM GLOSS NECK
