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Location: SoCal | $1200???? I gotta get my blonde THead before somebody famous starts playing one and jacks up the price!!! |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Ikygoo;
First off it's not even a real maple top, it's veneer
Do you mean the flame maple top is a thin WOOD veneer, or is it actually fake flame..."Photoflame" is what Fender calls their version.
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Location: NoHo, CA | It's not as lame as a photo-flame. It's a plain maple cap topped with a thin layer of flame maple veneer. It's like a boob job for a maple top. Sort of. Actually I just like to say 'boob'.
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Location: St Louis | Hey Travis-
are you sure 'bout that? I look out my front p/u to have "look see" at the thickness of my top on my GP and it looked like a flame maple top to me at least a 1/4" in thickness.
I could see no veneer on top of it...
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The GPs all had a Thin venerial on the top, maybe only .030" Sorry, these were NOT carved like the mopauls. |
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Location: NJ | As long as it wasn't "venereal". |
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Location: NoHo, CA | See? I told ya. Anyway, with this sudden onslaught of GP's, someone's gotta put a black one up for sale. Come on. I need more GP's and I want a black one...please! By the way I'm a hypocrite. I just bought Miles's GP. I have a feeling it'll be worth every penny I was bitching about in my previous posts. 3 down 247 to go... |
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Location: Canada | What about an Ultra GS? How much should I pay for one? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | The Ultra GS's never seemed to catch on. Probably because of the import factor. I think when compared to their counterparts of the day, they are fantastic guitars that can be had for a couple-to-three humdred bucks. The extra routing around the body and on the headstock I think set it above the crowd in a sea of strat-style clones. The assorted pickup and bridge arrangements were interesting too. |
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Location: NJ | I have a couple of gs guitars on my website |
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Location: Canada | oh so the GS was imported not made in the US. Anyone know where they were made? Korea perhaps? |
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Location: NJ | assembled in the us with parts from us and imports |
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Location: Houston, TX | Samick bodies, Korean necks, schaller hardware, assembled in North Carolina. Right guys? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Scott
I think that was a description of them from an earlier post so I think you are right. Makes Vipers worth much more in my not so humble opinion.
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Location: Canada | Well, actually I'm new to this Ovation Solid Body scene, I'm more of a Steinberger player (any of you guys have one?). But kind of got interested in these puppies since my first guitar was an Ovation Celebrity Semi-Accoustic. Anyways, so got my first Ovation Solid Body (Ultra GS) which I know isn't a TRUE TRUE ovation solidbody but now I'm looking into a UKII or a Breadwinner if I can get my hands on one. Not too fond of the Viper.. just something about the shape is not too appealing, the body's too small or something...(no offense to you viper players out there) |
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Location: Scotland | "The body's too small" is an interesting comment from a Steinberger player! The UK11 has a slightly different shape to the Viper, but is pretty much the same size. |
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Location: Canada | What I meant was the body's not proportional to the rest of the guitar. Looks like a Les Paul without the weight. Maybe just the shape doesn't go well with the rest of the guitar. Just my opinion. Hope I haven't offended anyone |
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Location: Scotland | Maybe it's the 24-fret neck that makes it look like that to you. Having said that, all USA Ovation solids have 2 octave fingerboards.
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Location: Canada | Which totally rocks! I still can't quite get used to my Ultra GS cause it's missing a couple frets!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | the GS and the bass (BS? sorry don't remember the letters and couldn't resist)bodies were made from layered wood. Samick piled it up with glue and made their own body blanks. The GP, while having a thin venereal top did have solid pieces of wood making up the body. |
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Location: Canada | Will current Samick bodies fit with the Ovation neck? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Good question. The gs was pretty much a straight strat style guitar off their production tooling. I'd check if the heel size is the same, the scale lenght and all that. It might fit. |
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Location: Canada | Cause the GS body is really boring. Especially mine. A single humbucker on a black body. Really boring... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Funny thing about perception.. I think the GS body is anything but boring. I think the routing around the edge really sets it apart from all the strat-clones out there.. |
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Location: Canada | not just boring, kinda bulky too... I guess they can't be compared to Steinberger bodies but I would prefer a body more like an Ibanez RG series or a Kramer. |
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