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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Just bought this on eBay about an hour ago. Seller says one knob not "O" but Guild....does anyone know where an old lady might locate?
Thank you guys.
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Volume and Tone are different, which do you need? |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Hmm. I don't know. Here is the listing. Do you know which it is?
[http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3772763482]
I'm not sure I know how to make a link here.
The eBay item # is 3772763482
Sorry! |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | eBay
I'm trying again.....I think I am failing.... |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3772763482
Geez! |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Looking at the sixth picture, it appears to be the upper right knob which would normally be one of the 'Volume' knobs, but the picture isn't good enough to see if the other knobs have been switched around. |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Hey Bru,
Thanks so much for checking it out for me.
I'll wait for it show up and take a close look...and perhaps some clear pictures that I can show you if that's okay....then perhaps you can steer me in the right direction.
It looks like it's kind of an ugly little bugger....but I have the world's ugliest dog and she's got a heart of gold and I love her to death. Keeping my fingers crossed this "relationship" will turn out in a similar manner!
Hope the weather is not affecting you too badly. We're waiting here in Scottsdale for it to drift our way.
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Should be easy to tell. The two volume knobs say' Volume' and the two tone knobs say 'Tone'.
The UK-II guitars are pretty versatile tone-wise and don't weigh as much as you'd expect. BTW I own 4.
Actually it hasn't been raining here too much today. Although yesterday the humidity was 100%! |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | That I can handle!
I have a couple of O acoustic electrics....this is my first foray into electric-ville! |
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Location: Waurika OK | Kerry,
You will like your UKII. With a good set up the action can be amazingly low. The pickups are great. When you get it, if you have any questions, there are experts here that can answer them. (no, I am not one of the experts.)
What acoustic O's do you have?
noel
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | I have a '91 1719 Custom Legend and an '89 1868 Elite.
I love them. Especially my Legend.
I bought a brand new Legend in the 70's.....I wish I still had that one. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Hey, *I* have an '89 Elite, too! What finish is yours? Maybe they're twins, separated at birth! Haw, haw.
On the topic of the UKII knobs. Someone says they have 'volume' and 'tone' imprinted on them. Are they like the replacement Gibson knobs that have volume/tone on the metal foil insert? I think I saw some of those at StewMac or Allparts (or whatever the other one is). |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | The finish on the Elite says "white" on the original hang tag. It is now an aged and mellow cream color....kind of like what white binding turns into over time. Looks great.
My Legend is sunburst.....black/amber.
Beautiful thing! What a comfortable neck too. |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | BruDev....
If you're still about....
the UK II knob I need is a volume knob.
Got the guitar today. The eBay seller sent it "3 day UPS" from MA to me in AZ yesterday! Amazing. |
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| and sooooo.. what's it like.....?
we're all wondering. or is it just simply "Amazing"
Glenn |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I looked and all I have is a Tone knob.
Email Kim Keller at Ovation and see if he has any.
KKeller-KMC@Kaman.com
If I remember right! |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Thanks Bru!
Glenn,
This UK II is great! Everything works and it is in good shape.
I should explain that I am a 49 year old female acoustic player....and only a hack at that....
I decided I'd like to try electric several years ago and bought (shame, shame) a middle of the road Fender American Strat. Didn't really play it much from the get-go and sold it on eBay after a year.
Always look at Ovations on eBay...and happened across the electrics. It never ocurred to me that my favorite acoustic maker even made electrics. Duh!
Anyway, have been lurking around on eBay for months and months then suddenly decided to buy this UK.
I got it yesterday and sat around playing it well past my old lady bedtime. I played it longer than I played that crappy Strat the whole time I owned it. This guitar is so nice and has that way comfortable "O" neck. It feels like my Legend and Elite....but "softer".
Very happy.....though not exactly Jeff Skunk Baxter overnight.
I am, however, Curly Fingers Davis, according to that Blues name thread. Sounds like I got electrocuted.
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Location: NJ | Wow!
A woman who actually knows WHO SkunkBaxter is . . .
I'm impressed!!
G'Luck widda UKII, Kerry,
. . . and Welcome! |
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Location: SoCal | Isn't Jeff "Skunk" Baxter the govt weapons expert? |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Oddly enough....Skunk IS a weapons expert...and
one of the most excellent guitarists around.
He did the Reelin' In The Years leads....supposedly after coming into the studio and listening to the song one time. hard to believe. |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Thanks, Cliff, for the welcome.
This is a very neat site!
Very glad I came across it. It is so nice to know there are other "O" fans out there. I thought I had odd taste, strangely shaped hands, unique aural capacity, or ?????? since everyone else I know seems to own and play and covet a limited range of boring typical guitars.
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Location: NJ | Sorry, but "Reelin' In The Years" was Elliott Randall . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Email Miles, one of this board's moderators. He's got a bunch of old knobs and stuff. |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Well shoot....you're right....he was on Do It Again and My Old School and Takin' It To The Streets (Doobies)......it's all coming back to me!
I stand corrected.
Alzheimer's setting in
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Location: NJ | ". . Alzheimer's setting in . . "
That's another Club . .
. . . we meet on Thursdays . .
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WTB knob for UKII
