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Location: Munich | hi, I just fell over a new GP offer. The guitar is located in Berlin/Germany
click to see the auction
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Location: NJ | same quality as a PRS????
LOL this guy is a salesman!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | It looks like a Hamer with the Ovation design at the top of the head. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by alpep:
same quality as a PRS????
Getting close, but only if he means a Korean PRS SE. Someone will probably bid this up to a couple of grand and pay the shipping, sales tax & import duty to get it into the US.
I bet the abusive replies to this post from GP owners gets into double figures pretty quickly. |
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Location: NoHo, CA | FYI there would be no import tax for a GP coming into America since technically it was "made" here and it is returning to its country of origin. Also I have no abuse to doll out either. In terms of craftsmanship, I think the PRS is a solid guitar. In terms of tone I enjoy the GP infinitely more. But on par with PRS construction wise the GP is not. The GP is a cool guitar. It is however in my opinion not $2,200+ cool unless I'm selling one. |
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Location: Scotland | You're wrong about the tax situation. And this is another of the myths that catch buyers when they import guitars. Regardless of country of origin, if the goods come in as the result of a commercial transaction then import duty & sales tax is payable on the value declared for customs and insurance purposes. |
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Location: Munich | well, I think it's kewl that it seems that we're still 2 players who are using the gp in germany ( hi reza)and we both use a mxr omni 2, lol.
i haven't known that there is also one in berlin.
but to get back to the prs topic. my gp is really well crafted and I've seen a few prs which are not. I also don't understand this discussion, the gp is a kewl vintage guitar with monster output I think it is (with the uk II) the crown of ovations solidbodies manufacturing. this technology is gone to hamer and they also are building fine guitars which I also like more than the prs. many guitarists think that the prs are the top of guitar manufacturing. but also that they're good guitars I think that their design is boring and the pu's are also just regular ones. So it's better to have a rare vintage ovation than throwing the cash out of the window and buying a guitar which hundreds use ;)
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | I for the life of me cannot understand how these Ultra GP guitars can be sold for 2000+ dollars. If I have 2000 dollars to spend on an electric guitar, I am running to Hamer! |
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Location: Munich | well, I also think that they're not worth 2000+, but the shape of their bodies are very beautyfull and the pu's on of the best. |
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| Sure there's no doubt that the GP is simply one of the coolest guitars I've ever had the pleasure of owning...it's just got a great vibe to it. In comparison to the quality of construction and time that PRS puts into their guitars...it's not that much of a comparison. The differences are subtle but many; things like the kind of finishing techniques and chemicals used in their finishes...stuff that most guitarists could give two craps about. Regardless, the differences are there...anyway, I just put in an order for a Custom 22 Friday, and I have no problem rocking a PRS and a GP side by side.
By the way...do the tuning machines on the GP on eBay right now look like Grovers to anyone else? Which means of course they aren't original (Schaller). Just thought I'd point that out incase anyone cared. |
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Location: NoHo, CA | Not to argue for the sake of arguing but I have bought American guitars from overseas before and I've never paid duty on them so please don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. I've been on the phone with the customs office several times to make sure I was always doing the right thing. Unless the laws have changed for '04, American goods returning to American soil are exempt from import taxes.
**EDIT** About the current GP auction on eBay - apparently the photos up of the GP are of the guitar that is for sale. There was a bit of a "language barrier" and it led to some confusion. |
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Location: NoHo, CA | Also Josh the later GP's had Grover tuners, non-Dimarzio pickups, and some even had ash bodies. You can tell the later run by the serial number sticker being on the back of the body instead of the back of the headstock and the plastic plate jack as opposed to a small metal circular one. Just things I've noticed from the 6 GP's I've owned over the years. |
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| Oh, that's good bit of info...I knew about everything but the Grovers and the serial num. sticker. Either way though...spotting Grovers on that tiny picture...all I have to say is damn good eye me, damn good eye. :p |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Travis,
Here's the U.S. link!! (makes it a bit easier to read!)
U.S. page
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Location: New Jersey | damn, it's already at $2200. |
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Location: Munich | but there is also a sencond one at ebay!!! also honey sunburst. |
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Location: New Jersey | damn, it finished at 2500. They just keep goin up. |
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Location: oklahoma | well i still want one |
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| Haha! Look at what I found:
http://www.guitarsite.com/database/Resources/rec/368/wwwboard/messages/75.shtml |
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Location: New Jersey | hehe Josh, I saw that a few months ago...that was a pretty funny post. Either way, you know the guy is full of crap because if you ever see any interviews with Josh Homme, he doesn't let the GP's leave his sight. |
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Location: Munich | lol, I can understand his behaviour. I played yesterday near the austrian border and some czech punks wanted to break open my car after the gig.
very unfunny.
c ya |
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New Ultra GP at ebay
