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Location: Florida | I just bought a "Purple" Ovation UKII. I have a letter from dated August 2001 from AirKaman of Jacksonville that says this particular guitar and another were part of a 24-piece collection owned (supposably) by Charles Kaman. The hand-written letter reads:
"as Production of the UK2 Closed down I set aside two dozen guitars. these two UKII's are from thos 24 guitars that have been part of my collection for all these years."
It is signed but I can only make out a "C" and maybe a "K". The serial number of on this guitar is: E 19209. I took the aft pickup out to see if the color was original. The inside was the same color. If it isn’t the original color someone took the guitar completely apart and re-finished the guitar with the same kind of poly-acrilic coating Ovation used! Behind the covers for the volume and tone knobs and the upper switch it has the same aluminum foil as I have seen on other UKIIs. The guitar as far as I can tell it is made out of the same special (I forget what they called it) material as other UKIIs
Another weird thing about this guitar is that all the hardware is chrome, and instead of the large pearl inlays it has small pearl circles like my 2001 1861 Balladeer. The nut is also not brass like I have seen on other UKIIs it is made out of plastic or at least the same kind of material similar to the material used on my 1861.
I plan on calling Ovation and getting the no s*** answer on this one. The guitar looks like it is about 2 months old. If anyone knows anything about this please let me know. I can send pics to anyone who doesn’t believe me or is just interested. |
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Location: Scotland | You've come to the right place. I'm sure the previous owner will confirm this for you very soon, right on this board. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Where might one aquire one of these special guitars? :cool: |
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Location: NJ | Post some Pics, Please. |
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Location: SoCal | Definitely post some pics.
Is s*** the same as shit? |
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Location: NJ | ok here is where I be the bad guy and say.
Hey guys I really don't want this to be a boys club only, or adults only site etc. I want it to be fairly open to anyone of all age groups etc.
I can have the foulest mouth of anyone but try to keep the comments on the board clean so that if your son or daughter wanted to look at the board you would not be ashamed of what they see.
I am not against profanity but profanity for profanity sake is just dumb. |
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Location: SoCal | Of which, I'm fully capable. |
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Location: Florida | How do I post pics? :confused: |
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Location: NJ | contact Miles to be honest I am just as confused as everyone else on how to do it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Send me your instrument. I will happily take wonderful pictures and post them for you!
Congrats on your UKII! |
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Location: NJ | Freeloader just e-mailed me the pics, but I can't get the &^%#^%$&^@ things to post in the *&^#&^%#%&*^# Gallery EITHER!!! :mad:
I don't know if I'd call it "purple" as (according to the digital pics) it looks more like a Sapphire Blue. Nice Color. What colors were they available in? |
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Location: Florida | The Ovation website says:
Available Colors:
Black
White Pearl
Charcoal
UK Nutmeg
The color is puple without a doubt. I think the color got distorted by my digi cam. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Did you get it from Andys' Guitars?
http://www.andysguitars.com |
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Location: Florida | Yes |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | They also had a plain brown one a few months ago that they advertised as belonging to Bill Kaman. Being as they're not too far from CWK2, maybe he's the source. |
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Location: Florida | I had the opportunity to play both but after researching the two found that the purple one was more rare and matched my 1861 in Cadillac green. Call me crazy but the guitar spoke to me. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | ... edited post.. was just just testing |
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Location: Florida | I just dont know how. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Freeloader,
Just go to the Member Access area and click on Gallery. At the top is a "utitity" button that will step you through uploading. You can copy the link when you upload your picture, or later when viewing the picture by using the "right click/properties" method.
Once the picture is uploaded and you have the link, just create your post and choose the URL or IMAGE button that will prompt you for the link you copied.
If of course the pictures is already online someplace, you can just link to it.
FYI,
It's usually better to link to a picture (in the gallery or otherwise) rather than post it in the thread anyway as people with dailups really get cranky when downloading pictures in threads.
Hope this helps. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "...It's usually better to link to a picture (in the gallery or otherwise) rather than post it in the thread anyway as people with dailups really get cranky..."
Or at least keep the file down to a reasonable size, say, 150k or less.
Wayne |
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Location: Florida | I have uploaded the pics to the website. I hope this works.
http://www.ovationfanclub.com/photos/Freeloder_74646_my%20pictures0001.jpg
http://www.ovationfanclub.com/photos/Freeloder_74683_my%20pictures0002.jpg
http://www.ovationfanclub.com/photos/Freeloder_74715_my%20pictures0003.jpg |
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Location: Florida | Thankyou Mr. Ovation |
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Location: Tennessee | Interesting ... looks like a stock UKII body and electronics in an unusual color, with the same neck and bridge that's on my solid body Viper (s/n in the same neighborhood). Emptying out the parts bin at the end of the solid body run? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | let me know when ya'll want the answer. |
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Location: SoCal | Now would be good. |
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Special UK II ?
