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Location: NJ | Hey looks like Miles and myself will be going to the Ohio Guitar show this weekend. if you need any info check it out at www.guitardigest.com
btw if you need me to bring out anything specific to the show let me know.
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Location: NJ | Well I guess from the lack of response Miles and I will not be seeing any of the OFC members out in Ohio. We will report back and tell you if we saw anything cool.
Please play nice in our absence. |
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Location: NJ | OK see you in OHIO home of bad pizza horrible sandwiches and where no matter how you order your burger it always gets to you rare.... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Well that was a fun trip. I just ride along with Al as an excuse to get out of the house, and look at cool toys. It was nice to see several Ovation solidbodies at the show. One person had a Preacher, Breadwinner and Viper, another a UKII yet another a Preacher Deluxe, and there were two Magnum Basses. Also, the BassMan dealer had 2 Magnums that he is saving for the Philly show. The prices were reasonable and instruments is excellent shape. The Breadwinner was a litte odd as it had low serial number, bridge had nylon saddles, and it had the Preacher/Deacon style Humstumper active electroncs which didn't exist until several years later. It was a tortoise shell pickguard, cut for the smaller pickups, but something just didn't look right and there was not a tortoise shell pickguard on Deacons. It was still a very nice breadwinner and it was available at a good price. I think the only guitar that sold was the cream Viper and I made a nice trade to get the Magnum III to finish my collection. |
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Location: SoCal | Miles:
Do you really expect either us or your wife to believe that your collection is finished? |
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Location: NJ | Miles is my co pilot. He keeps me awake and semi coherent during the 8 hr drive. On a drive back it was good I was paying attention when an elderly women in a late seventies lincoln merged into my lane with no warning. Plenty of time to slow down but if I was not paying attention it would have been fatal.
Plenty of celebrity guitars the show priced in the 375-600 range. a 94 collector's in very good shape for 800 (great deal) and a 79 balladeer in pristine shape for 375
Tbe owner of the last guitar and I had a conversation about why he felt the bottom fell out of the Ovation market..Funny an hour later I sold a mandolin, Adamas SMT and a 2001 collector's series guitar. So maybe the market is still there for the higher end instruments much like it is for many other companies. |
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Location: SoCal | Interesting comment on high end v. low end Ovations. When you go into most music stores, you only see low end Ovations. Look at the Musicians Friend catalog and you'll see almost all low end guitars.
But when the high end Ovations go on eBay, they usually get snapped right up.
Velly interesting, but schtupid. |
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Location: NJ | Paul
I wish I could figure it out then I would only buy guitars the sell and have a small inventory.
The music superstores do the low end thing very well. They buy guitars by container loads and are able to retail them much cheaper than the local mom and pop store. This applies to ALL BRANDS not just to our beloved Ovation. So what happens is vendors find a niche. For me I tend to stay with Adamas and upper end guitars. If you go to the superstore of your choice you may find 1 Adamas. Check my website and I have a variety.
When Miles wanted a 2001 collectors' he was able to come over and A/B the center sound hole with the epaulet model. I have yet to see one of each in any store I have visited.
You are correct about e bay and higher end guitars getting snapped up. There is a demand for them you just have to shop a little harder to find them. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Where in Ohio was the show? I grew up on a farm in Ohio and started playing at dances in north east Ohio in the early 50's. My brother played a 120 bass accordian that we traded a 36 chevy for that my dad bought at auction for $21, our friend Bill played a scrached up Martin that he bought for $20 or so and I played a Silvertone laptop steel and rythm guitar on an archtop Kay (action at 12th fret, one inch). We played polkas, waltzes, and square dances, and practiced in our dairy barn even in winter cause country music was not for decent people to be playing in our house. The dances were great fun cause the square dancers didn't belong to any club. There is your vintage guitars, Kays, Silvertones, etc. unplayable and sounded like S--T but you could buy one for $15. Did you see any at the show?
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