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Location: Stratford, Connecticut | http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3701785571&category=33042&sspagename=STRK%3AMESSE%3AIT&rd=1
Prototype Breadwinner on eBay |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | It's a cute number, but I don't think it's a prototype. It also does not have original knobs. There were 10 "pre-production" models numbers X001 through X010, but I guess anything is possible. Maybe CWK2 has some more data than that, but it is a nice guitar in regardless. |
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Location: Scotland | I aggree, the pickups, plain neckplate & battery cover and position of output jack indicate a very early production guitar, it's not a prototype. |
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Looks great. Would this be a good "first" Ovation solid body to pick up? |
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Location: Scotland | As much as I like Breadwinners & Deacons, they do not produce the "classic" guitar tones. They produce lots of very interesting & useful sounds, but they don't sound like a LP or a Strat, which I guess was part of their demise. They also don't sound good with high gain distortion, though they produce more useable clean tones than just about anything else. As a first Ovation solid you might be better off looking at a Viper, Preacher or UK2. |
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Location: Las Vegas | He's quite a salesman. First it's not a Deacon (the more expensive model) but the usual white Breadwinner, which had to have been the most common color. He knows this, because he's claiming it's a "deacon in the rare white color."
It originally did have the knobs, you can see the discoloration in the pickguard.
Also, this appears to have the "gigging frequently quick string replacement fix" gouge routed out under the bridge. It's a nice smooth router job (smoother than the one I bought) but the gap appears to be there nonetheless. This was done because according to the breadwinner manual, the only way to replace the strings was to cut all of them before you could get the bridge off. Guys who gig frequently need to change just one string during a break. (Hey, someone explain it better if you'd like, I've never done it.)
Just something to be aware of, because the job is so smooth it hardly shows up in the pictures (unlike mine which was done with a dull screwdriver !) I was painting mine blue anyway and didn't care about filling the gouge with filler.
He also claims it screams, which usually implies high volume and distortion, neither of which most guys who know say Breadwinners aren't suited for.
Looks like one of the hundreds of white breadwinners with the older pickups that have appeared so far on eBay, certainly the most common.
Les
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Location: On the beach in Southwest Florida | Thanks for the info guys. |
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NICE Prototype Breadwinner on eBay
