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Location: Up North | Here's a question I haven't seen here before.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I paid $150 for a 1537 on ebay.
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Location: Up North | I thought $405 for mine was a steal! You should be in jail Stephen! |
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You girls don't get too cute. We're here, but we're watching you!! |
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Location: CT | 250 for a 1612 Custom Balladeer. Had it for about a week now and really like it. Used O's seem to be getting cheaper, so I figure in a coupla years I'll get them for free. |
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Location: Up North | The "Big Shots" are Watching! :cool: |
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Location: Up North | It is bizarre how the price seems to be dropping.
It seems that people who have either never played them when they had them, or have been given them by someone, and have no concept of the value of what they have.
My 1537 was originally purchased by a man who bought it for his wife to learn how to play guitar, she never caught the bug, so it sat for 20 years, then he gave it away to a friend when they moved, the guy put it on ebay with no reserve, and I scooped it. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...so, why didn't anyone ask Cliffie to wear his Helmut-Cam so we could watch the Tour action....oh, yeah, I remember now.... sorry. |
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| Originally posted by Grif:
Here's a question I haven't seen here before.
What's the least anyone has paid for an Ovation? I think I did ok on the Adamas 12 for 775..
and 375 wasn't bad for the 1of50 GC 30th annv. sambora style elite.
any other nice falling star stories out there?
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Location: East Tennessee | The least I paid for and Ovation was $287. It was a brand new 1115 Pacemaker 12 string.
It was in 1972 and yes I still have the guitar. :D
BTW Glenn how is your wife? |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I can't recall exactly, but I think I paid $160 ish for my Matrix (new) back in the 1970's. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | $132.50 for the Ultra GS I just bought. Hasn't arrived yet. Then $200 for my other Ultra GS, $225 for my Custom Balladeer etc. I missed that 1537 that Stephen bought by about 10 seconds.
My Matrix was $245 new back in 1977. I probably didn't know any better back then and paid full retail. |
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Location: Up North | Stephen, do you still have that 1537?
Mark, I've been looking at the Ultra's as well, they seem to be an incredible deal for the prices they're getting right now. |
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Location: Up North | another topic.
Do you think the OFC guitars will be on display/delivered at the tour?? |
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Location: NW Washington State | In the mid 80's I paid $100 for a Breadwinner with a Fender Champ. Both were out of style then, not mint but not in bad shape either. I still have them.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by Grif:
another topic.
Do you think the OFC guitars will be on display/delivered at the tour?? I will be seriously bummed if they are (except that Al's may be there). I probably would have changed plans and made sure I got there if I could bring back my OFC guitar.
If it's ready, maybe Waskel could bring it back to Portland and I can pick it up there. I'm sure he won't play it before I do. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Re the OFC guitar (aka "KOALA"), I'm really getting eager for mine to show up! Just can't wait! Dave's photos didn't ease the pain any. They made it worse in fact.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Grif,
No....it went to my brother-in-law who plays punk and wanted the occasional acoustic protest song.
He laughed at Ovation till he played it....then he was almost in tears telling how he had to have it.
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Location: Up North | now I'm getting confused? Is the KOALA now being referred to as the OFC guitar as well? (I thought that moniker was reserved for the 12 - Adamas 12 fret slothead, blue burst, electronic beasts)? |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Omaha:
Re the OFC guitar (aka "KOALA"), .... Two different guitars. The Koala is the Koa topped, Lost Art custom 12 fret, cutaway that Dave posted pics of.
The OFC guitar is that Adamas thing Al posted in some thread. Blue burst carbon top, fancy scroll work everywhere, 6 string, 14 frets to the body, etc.
Not to be confused with Al's 12 string UTE custom either. Which is another animal altogether.
Just to clarify --
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Location: Omaha, NE | Well, I guess that's why I'm sitting here on the outside looking in.
Here's a quiz:
Look at this video first...
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Location: Central Oregon | I got my Pacemaker for FREE, but only because United Parcel Smashers beat the hell out of it (mostly the case) & I wouldn't let them take it for "evaluation". I made that mistake once. "Evaluation" is really UPS code for "we're going to steal it so you can't prove anything". Been there, done that.
The guy I bought it from kept the screws to 'em on his end back east & I did the same on this end. We actually got $45 more that I paid for it on a BIN. I told the seller to keep the extra $$ for his trouble. That was the only time I ever came out on a UPS claim. The other two times they screwed me. One of those times they took my money for $500 worth of insurance & still wouldn't pay up when they destroyed a trolling motor. Now I will NEVER use UPS unless somebody insists on shipping me something that way & it's free. |
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| Hi tripleG, I'm leaving the updates in the other thread...don't want to keep throwing wet blankets around, Shannon and I just got back from the hospital..
Char is in better spirits, but the diagnosis/prognosis is not good.
we're just gonna keep it day by day..
Thanks Mike.
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Location: Waurika OK | Wow this topic has grown in the last few hours.
I bought a 1613 at a pawn shop for $65. It was kind of rough, but sounded great.
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Nils:
I got my Pacemaker for FREE, but only because United Parcel Smashers beat the hell out of it (mostly the case) & I wouldn't let them take it for "evaluation". I made that mistake once. "Evaluation" is really UPS code for "we're going to steal it so you can't prove anything". Been there, done that.
The guy I bought it from kept the screws to 'em on his end back east & I did the same on this end. We actually got $45 more that I paid for it on a BIN. I told the seller to keep the extra $$ for his trouble. That was the only time I ever came out on a UPS claim. The other two times they screwed me. One of those times they took my money for $500 worth of insurance & still wouldn't pay up when they destroyed a trolling motor. Now I will NEVER use UPS unless somebody insists on shipping me something that way & it's free. Nils, I'm with you on this one! I went through that UPS thing with the UTE. They wanted to come and pick it up to "inspect it", and I thought, "sure, I'm going to give you my 1K+ guitar and wave goodbye as it leaves" No, I DON'T THINK SO. I ended up eating the repairs, but will never, NEVER, use UPS to ship a guitar again. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
If it's ready, maybe Waskel could bring it back to Portland and I can pick it up there. I'm sure he won't play it before I do. Absolutely. You can trust me to respect your right to be the first to play it...
and I'll be sure to wipe my fingerprints off and replace the worn out strings so you can fully enjoy your little fantasy. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
If it's ready, maybe Waskel could bring it back to Portland and I can pick it up there. I'm sure he won't play it before I do. Absolutely. You can trust me to respect your right to be the first to play it...
and I'll be sure to wipe my fingerprints off and replace the worn out strings so you can fully enjoy your little fantasy. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | This is nice, I'm on my way over to the other coast (Fla), my wife is driving, and I'm on the OFC site on my laptop. Life is good! :cool: |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Gospel Guitar Guy:
Jim,
Wouldn't you rather be in the Smoky Mountains on the front porch pickin' your Adamas?. You know it Mike! Except the Adamas is on its way ot Colorado now....Since I got the 1537, I don't need it anymore. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Amazingly-Detached..:
wave as you're driving by Jim!! safe trip!!
Glenn Thanks Glen, just passing the southern tip of the lake now. I will be waving, and praying for you and your family. :) |
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| Originally posted by Omaha:
Well, I guess that's why I'm sitting here on the outside looking in.
Here's a quiz:
Look at this video first...
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A) Heartlessly cruel animal abuse
B) Funniest thing you ever saw
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Omaha, I loved your posting over on the Acoustic tutt-butt board. They seem to be getting more tolerant of Ovations.
I bought a real early balladeer out in LA for $150 back in the mid 80's. I chuckled as I paid for it and told the guy "This is the first Ovation I have ever bought" He gave me a bored, "so what" look and I just let it drop. |
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Location: Up North | Glenn, sorry Omaha.
God I laughed! "Flying Squirrels"!
Definitely "B" |
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| wow.. and if you saw it as an EARLY Balladeer.... I'm sure it was.... and you were eventually gonna buy one sooner or later... ;)
that's what we're all here talking bout right?
sure he'd have paid more attention, had he known your moniker.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Waskel, I had my tongue firmly in my cheek when I suggested you could be my currier. But if the OFC guitar was ready, you would be more than welcome to take it home and try it out. They are made to be played, not sit in a case waiting for me to get around to it.
10 of my 12 got played last night, so I still don't have any that are just decorations. |
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Location: GA USA | Deja-vu all over again. Seems like just a year ago GGG, Stephen and I, et al, got in some hot water over the "boost your post count" thread, while the factory touristas were doing their thing.
Jason might have us all beat on the lowest price. I think he paid $20 for an Academy. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I remember. We'll probably get in again. At least we're talking about guitar this time. :D |
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Location: GA USA | Sorry, Slag. I just re-read the thread, and you were there too.
About the prices on Ovations, I figure that if I ever get the itch to buy one cheap, I can always come here and ask who wants to sell one for under $200. I bet you'd get some replies. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Deja-vu all over again. Seems like just a year ago GGG, Stephen and I, et al, got in some hot water over the "boost your post count" thread, while the factory touristas were doing their thing.
Jason might have us all beat on the lowest price. I think he paid $20 for an Academy. Don't know about the Thread Count thing...
I tried to catch the opportunity to announce my 500th Post... But it slipped on by me!
Somewhere around 950 I thought I would celebrate my 1000th. That didn't happen either.
[But I maybe I should get some kind of Honor for killing the most threads in my first year! :p ] |
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Location: Waurika OK | change of subject, but if you go to JasonS myspace, (find where he has posted here on the fan club, the address is there) you can see a video of Paul T. and Cliff doing a medley of songs. Since I don't have any of the CD's yet and I have never been to the tour, it gives an idea of what goes on in the jam sessions. Looks like fun. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Nothing to add...just wanted to get one last post in while all the big-timers are drinking and partying at HQ.
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | At the risk of sounding like a US 'O' snob, I thought this thread was more about US made Ovations?
My first Ovation was a 1111, (I think) and it cost me $150. That's $150 Australian, which equates to roughly $112US.
And I bought it from a guitar store. It was missing the nut, they didn't like Ovations, couldn't be bothered to repair it, so they let me have it for 150, including case.
It was in pretty spotless condition too, and the nut only cost me 2 bucks. Sometimes it pays to be fanatical about a product that nobody else cares about.
That was a good score, but to risk going slightly off topic (Hey, this IS the OFC!) it was not as good a deal I got on my bass.
One Sunday morning, about 25 years ago, my mum comes home from a garage sale and told me that they had a bass guitar (with a case) for sale for $50.
So I dragged myself out of bed and went to see this cheap P.O.S...
... and the guy drags out this blonde, 1972 US Fender Precision Bass that had had a rough life, but played BEAUTIFULLY. The old plywood case had started to fall apart and someone had re-screwed the hinges on with too long screws and they had chewed up the extremities of the body, but not too deep.
That bass was in my car and I was gone in a heartbeat - after handing the seller a single banknote. I got out of there before he realised how excited I was and before he could rethink his price.
In the last 25 years, a lot of working musos have borrowed it, and I've had hell to pay to get it back off them.
I paid AUD$50, roughly US$37.50, for a 1972 US Precision Bass? Freebies from UPS don't count. I reckon I win. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Well, I know this isn't a great score, but at church about 2 months ago, some friends approached me and asked if I would like a guitar. Someone had given it to them just to get rid of it, and they knew I played (or tried to) and they gave it to me. It's a Hohner wood box, probably a 150.00 guitar new, but it serves as a beater. Came with a gig bag too. |
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Location: Waurika OK | Since we are not at the tour and rambling on about our stories, let me tell you this one.
A lady here in town told me she had some guitars. I asked if I could see them sometime. A few days later she said her daughters told her not to sell them. I told her I did not want to buy, just see them.
Probably a year later she said she had decided to give me the guitars, after my protests, she gave them to me. Not that valuable, a Conn, a small one (Hondo type) and a small classical.
Two days later an old fellow who lived out of his van suffered a fire in the van and the neck was burned out of his Fender reso. The lady ask if we couldn't give him one of the guitars, I was happy to put new strings on the Conn and give it to him.
6 months later she comes to my house and wants the small steel string for her granddaughter to learn on. Of course you can have it back. One problem, in my trading, around the case it was in is gone. I put it in another case and gave it to her. The next day it was on my porch with a note that basically said, if we can't have the case it came in we don't want it. What to do? I bought a new cheap case to give to her, but decided to use the case the classical came in. I explained what I had done and she seemed satisfied.
Later she asked me when I was going to give her the guitar, she does not remember me giving it to her. Her daughter said she had not given it to the granddaughter.
She now wants the classical back, I have no problem giving it to her, but the case it came in is somewhere in her house. So now I must come up with a good case for that one. I had also replaced the tuners on the classical because the plastic the strings wind up on was broken. Not worried about that either, just want this situation over and done with. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | "Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
Here's my comment to start the day...
I've been playing classic rock for a while now, and I'm sick of it. Just not doing anything for me. Plus, my band had a falling out last saturday. Nothing big, just band stuff.
So, I'm thinking of going way back to something I was seriously into 25 years ago: Jazz. I haven't played jazz guitar in all that time, but I think I'll dust off some modes and funky chords and give it a whirl. Probably will take me six months to get my chops back. Maybe I'll try to put together a combo for the holiday party season. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Xnoel, I feel for you on that one. Sounds like my luck. I guess were back to: "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't" I gave that Hohner the people gave me to someone else who needed a cheap guitar for their daughter. I'm waiting anyday for the original people to want it back. :rolleyes: |
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Location: East Tennessee | I was just droo..., oops I mean looking at the UTE 12 string.
Looks like a Pacemaker on steroids. :cool:
BTW; Jim is the 97 Collectors you're getting a wide neck? |
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| What should we talk about?....
well Char and I just got done watching our daughter throw her mortarboard...
youngest of 7 finally out of school, and getting ready to spread her wings..
glad we were able to watch it together.
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Congratulations, Glenn and Char! What a great experience to share.
Char, it's now time to give the orders and see how well you have trained Glenn. Prod him along gently to get what you want. If he steps out of line, let us know, we will come take care of him for you! ;)
Prayers and best wishes to you both, and the family of course.
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Gospel Guitar Guy:
I was just droo..., oops I mean looking at the UTE 12 string.
Looks like a Pacemaker on steroids. :cool:
BTW; Jim is the 97 Collectors you're getting a wide neck? No Mike, I beleive it's a narrow one. We'll see when it gets here. |
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Location: Lebanon, TN | It is a narrow neck and very comfortable :-) |
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Location: East Tennessee | I have the narrow neck version. I would love to try a wide neck someday.
I believe that less than 1500 were made. Not sure how many were wide necks. Not that many because you don't see them that often. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Don't mess with us like that!
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