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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | Stunning!
I take it this is a recent 'leak' of a brand new guitar. I do hope so. |
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Location: SoCal | I believe that this was built in the factory recently...... |
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Location: Canada | Celebrity? |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | I am missing something here for sure!! |
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Location: moline,illinois | beautiful,can anyone blow up the label,it has the looks of a custom elite to me |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Looks like a Custom Elite, and a darn nice one.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | That sez Custom Elite C2078AX... Made in Korea. 
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I have always loved the look of an inlaid epi. Added to a figured maple top and the MOP binding, I think it is stunning. The epi appears to be one piece maple with some flame. Not sure this would be the right color combination for me, but I do like the material selection and layout. I have lost track of what models are now available from overseas, so I don't know if this one is new or a prototype. |
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Location: Jet City | arthurseery - 2015-08-17 10:31 PM That sez Custom Elite C2078AX... Made in Korea. The quilt one that's been popping up on facebook is being called a Celebrity Elite Plus. I guess we'll see how the branding all washes out here soon. I would like it even better if it just said "Celebrity Plus" and kept the "Elite" name, well... elite. USA built. Celebrity = center hole Celebrity Plus = multi-hole
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Location: Urbana, IL | Wake me up when they leak something US made....  |
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Location: Texas | Looks to be the same piezo they used on Ovations...and to my knowledge they never used on Celebrities. So in essence, it is a high end Asian roundback? I like the figuring in the top and the MOP binding... But I am with Damon...if it is Asian, call it a Celebrity something or another...or come up with a new name. Don’t denigrate the old O line, just to sell non-USA guitars.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Now hold on fellas (and ladies)...
What if they used all of the LX requirements including the bolt on necks but made them offshore?
You would have a damn good guitar that could add enough life to start making some damn FINE guitars in New Hartford. |
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Location: south east Michigan | That's a big if. |
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Location: Jet City | I suppose if I was waiting for a factory to get retooled and restaffed.... AND I had a factory in Korea already toooled at ready do make whatever sorta thing I want, weird or not, I'd get pretty bored of just sitting around waiting.
Looks like Bill's having some fun to me.
These laminate top imports are getting lots of oohs and ahhhs on Facebook and the Ovation site
There's definitely a market |
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Location: south east Michigan | It can't be much of a shock to say that this will be the toughest crowd to be impressed. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | On Facebook they ooh & aah over a Blue Celebrity deluxe with an OP4BT. huh?
Understand, I have owned a Bunch of Celebrity's...
And I might buy another one if I see a nifty one for cheap.
But I have a bunch of USO's, so I ain't spending $500 on a look-alike.
And I have said this before...
I have gotten made-in-Korea set-up-in-CT Ultras for $400, with a warranty and a case.
AX and TX are just expensive Celebrity's. 
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Location: moline,illinois | damon67 - 2015-08-18 11:14
I would like it even better if it just said "Celebrity Plus" and kept the "Elite" name, well... elite. USA built. Celebrity = center hole Celebrity Plus = multi-hole
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Damon says what i've felt all along,quit denigrating the "Elite" name by putting it on overseas models,save it for the new USA guitars and avoid buyer confusion and possible loss of sales by people buying what they think is an "elite" but not being happy because its not what we know an "elite" to be |
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Location: Tennessee | arthurseery - 2015-08-18 4:37 PM On Facebook they ooh & aah over a Blue Celebrity deluxe with an OP4BT. Most people hear the way a guitar sounds with their eyes. This guitar is designed for them. Personally, I'm not one that gets excited with photoflame tops. All show and no go. Kinda like those Korean 1528 Ultra guitars from the 90's. Very cool looking but sound is marginal. And those rosettes are plain fugly in the picture ... I hope they're better looking to the naked eye. To steal Witko's description, they look like inlaid cadaver skin. But I'm sure they'll sell a boatload of those guitars to people who are buying a guitar for all the wrong reasons. The Elite name should be reserved for truly elite guitars. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I think DW is simply following the model that has worked so well for them. If the name Ovation appears on the label, it will be a quality instrument regardless of where it is made.
"Design Series - The lowest priced DW drum line, made from North American maple. The only series manufactured in Taiwan (reduced production costs), then shipped to the US for quality control. Shells are available in a limited number of standard sizes. The use of HVLT™ shell-manufacturing technology (Vertical Low Timbre shell with a horizontal outer ply) results in a thick and deep sound."
The Design Series is a great entry level DW, but it's not "inexpensive" or "cheap" compared to any other DW, just the lowest cost. It's a high quality kit that goes through the same QC line as any other DW, just built elsewhere. If you want the equal to "Celebrity" in a DW Drum, you buy the Pacific Drums and Percussion (PDP) Brand which they also own.
This leak may be the first step in what would be equal to their Design series and I'm guessing the price point will be well above any Celebrity model.
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Location: undisclosed | For me the question is "What is under the veneer?" Korea builds well but selling looks instead of sound isn't what I look for in instrument. What made Ovations great were aerospace engineers using testing facilities to research optimal sound. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Cavalier - 2015-08-18 10:21 PM
For me the question is "What is under the veneer?" Korea builds well but selling looks instead of sound isn't what I look for in instrument. What made Ovations great were aerospace engineers using testing facilities to research optimal sound.
Totally agree.. how it sounds is the ultimate bottom line. By the way, I wonder how many others noticed that DW puts the resonance "timbre" note on each shell. Sound familiar?
I know I come off like a DW fanboy, and maybe I am, but the parallel lines between certain ideas and techniques that DW uses, that are in the same vein that helped make Ovation great products are hard to ignor. |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | Not in vain but in vein?? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | nerdydave - 2015-08-18 11:27 PM
Not in vain but in vein??
yup... spellcheck at its finest. |
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