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Location: Wooster, Ohio | I went out to dinner with a couple from our church Sunday and in conversation he says he bought a Ovation used about 1970 and has had it under his bed ever since. He knows nothing about guitars, I told him shiny bowls are kind of collecors items. I am not sure if he showed it to me what I should be looking for in a shiny bowl? Not condition issues I know guitar but are their certain ones that are more desirable than others? Thanks. steve |
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Location: Jet City | What to look for in a shiny bowl? Your reflection  |
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Location: SoCal | Nobody wants a damned plastic guitar. Tell him I'll give him $75 for it just to be nice.... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "What do you look for in a shiny bowl?"
Hopefully not your cell phone, wallet or dentures...
The Rosette made some rapid changes as did the move from 3 board to 2 board tops. |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | "The Rosette made some rapid changes as did the move from 3 board to 2 board tops."
...as well as changes to the bridge, angle of the peghead, TRC, etc. Also, pay attention to the action. Neck resets involve either a new neck or new body. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Just buy it and save it from being under the bed forever. What kind of life is that? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Other than the usual dents, dings, worn frets and high action that you'd look for in any guitar, look for the inlaid grapevine rosette with the three piece top. If it was made in 1970, it won't have those. Look at the label and serial number to date the guitar (you probably knew that). I don't know what else to look for in a shinybowl that I wouldn't look for in any other guitar. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | is there really any collector value here? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | No, as far as resale value. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | 45flint - 2013-02-08 10:46 AM
is there really any collector value here?
To geeks like the Ovation Fan Club? Or to normal people on the street?
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Location: Texas | "Look at the label and serial number" If it all isn't on a 3" piece of paper...Im not thinking it is a shiny. Like this or this |
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Location: Texas | is there really any collector value here? I would lean to yes, depending on condition and what you paid for it (thats safe, eh?). The shiny bowls are showing up less on the secondary market because those of us that have one (or more), aren't letting go of them and the rest have died a natural death or are hidden under a bed. A couple of reasons, I think the shiny's have collector value... 1. It is the guitar that started it all. 2. I will submit that Ovation has yet to produce a line of guitars that have exceeded the quality and acoustic tonal resonance (adamas excluded) that the K1111 and its sisters offered. 3. It was handmade in AMERICA and is simplistically beautiful. I think these guitars hold their own, acoustically, with most decent guitars of that era...and meet or exceed the craftsmanship and acoustic response than most of the affordable guitars built today. Or maybe I just own the exception.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Q. "What to look for in a shiny bowl?"
A. Your reflection. |
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What to look for in a shiny bowl?