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Location: Central Florida | Found this while searching GBase:
http://www.gbase.com/gearlist/guitar_picture.asp?guitar=569888
It looks like the only thing from 1969 is the bowl... What do you all think?
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | I'm not sure what you're getting at. I can't remember exactly when the GC model first came out, but I bought a Deluxe Balladeer in Spring 1969. IIRC, Campbell had just begun playing his signature model. Also, IIRC the differences tween the GC model and the Deluxe Balladeer were the fingerboard inlays and the truss rod cover. IIRC the bowl, top, fingerboard and tuners were the same. Other than the fingerboard and truss rod cover, the pictured guitar looks just like my Deluxe Balladeer. And, the serial number sticker is in the same place. So, couldn't the pictured guitar have been made in 1969 and really be a GC model? |
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Location: Omaha | Looks like a very nice example; if they're willing to deal, I'll bet it's gone soon! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | This is a bastardized guitar and has been around on ebay and guitartrader.com a few times already. It does not have the following '69 GCDB features: peghead angle, rosewood bridge, inlaid rosette, larger GC TRC. It's basically a 70's 1127 GC Artist with a shiny bowl. Also looks from the photo like it may have a lacquer crack. If it was $400 I'd buy it, but $1200 no way. For $1200-1500 you can get a real '69 GCDB with all the standard features of the day - which by the way is maybe the best sounding wood topped guitar they ever built, IMHO. |
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Location: Central Florida | What I'm refering to is it looks like it's been completely refurbished, and the only thing that appears "original" from 1969 is the bowl (which would include the label). The neck, tuners and bridge all look to be from the late seventies or early-mid eighties.
The original GC Deluxe Baladeers had a Brazilian Rosewood five-point bridge, a larger truss rod cover, black, or dark brown veneer on the headstock, and the word "Deluxe" silk screened on the headstock directly above the rod cover. Also, the tuners on this one weren't introduced on Ovations till the mid seventies.
I'm not knocking it from the standpoint of it being a good guitar -- which it no doubt is. But judging by the asking price, they're trying to sell it as a collectible, and in that regard this guitar falls way short.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I agree. That's why it's still for sale after so long. |
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Location: Omaha | Thanks for "pointing out" the change in bridge shape; I'd forgotten about that (I've read Carter's book twice now, trying to educate myself about these, but there's still a learning curve...).
The book is great, if a bit outdated now, ten years later; it needs to be updated, or supplemented. Anyone know of someone or someplace that has done this? |
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'69 Glen Campbell...?