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Location: Phoenix AZ | Look at this. I'm not sure how to tell these apart the ones with red flame top only vs. the ones with the whole body/bowl in flames. The total flame ones like this look really cool to me. Dave
http://cgi.ebay.com/Ovation-elite-T-1778-Red-flames_W0QQitemZ260055... |
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Location: ranson,wva | i forget whether i was at gc in rockville or litz but they had one and it was the one ovation i played that whole day that my wife liked..id love to have on but i think it would clash with the rest of my collection..still a smokin' o' tho..jason |
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Location: SoCal | I really like it, but Lady Noah thinks it would clash with my gray hair. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I'll give 'em a buck for it. |
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Location: Tennessee | These style are pretty rare, and they do look very cool in person ... but maybe only to people who are sort of "different". The red looked the best of all the flames IMHO. But I saw one at the factory that was blue with something like raindrops on the finish. That was the coolest. :cool: But maybe I'm just "different".
These are great guitars to play too. I love the maple neck. The BIN is a pretty steep discount off the list price; someone's gonna get a good deal. |
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Location: Utah | That painted bowl looks slippery as can be. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by FlySig:
That painted bowl looks slippery as can be. Naw, I've played one. It's just like the old shiny bowl balladeers.
Dave |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | That's the same as mine. I try to make sure that my belt buckle will not scratch the paint. I brought mine to the Northeast gathering. Really cool looking. I think the WOW factor usually distract people from how bad I play. |
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Location: ranson,wva | come to think of thats where i played around with one at..nice one phil..jason |
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Location: Santa Clarita, California | Heck I bid a dollar on it just to make the wife think I was going to buy another guitar. It really is a beautiful guitar.
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | I believe the first run models were the painted bowl with black headstock faces and the OP-PRO. The next year run was the black bowl with painted flame headstocks and OP50. I think this was also the period when the purple tribal flame came out. The latest run is the orange flame...
I have the first one and it cost a heck of a lot more than the BIN price that Alpep is asking. The bowl is not slippery at all. This model Elite has a lot of bottom end and the neck play's extremely smooth.
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by JeffreyD:
Alpep is selling it isn't he? (lostvintateart?) at least spell it right
lostartvintage.com |
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Location: East Tennessee | I'm glad I found a spell check for my INTERNET explorer. :cool: |
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Location: Rauenberg, Germany | Musicians Friend sells the model new for less than the EBAY BuyItNow price if anyone is interested.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Ovation-1778T-Elite-T-Series... |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | The Musicians Friend/GC version only has the top painted, black bowl, OP30. I called Alpep about this before I bought mine from him. The one I bought from Al was not an FRG. I bought mine before this FRG was available. The price that Al wants is a good price for any one interested. |
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Location: Santa Clarita, California | I believe the one at Musicians Friends is Orange Flames on the top only and does not have the LX bracing like the one on eBay has.
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