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I know I'm just new but I'm hoping you can help me all the same.
I've just come across this website by fluke and I must say, it's great to see other Ovation guitar lovers, although I must say, so far I'm only in love with the GP.
I build guitars and for my next project I'd like to build a 'near' replica of the GP. Ideally, I would buy a GP but as they are hard to come by and the point of my new project is to integrate some mad electronics into the guitar, I don't want to route holes out of a lovely GP.
So instead, I'm building one from scratch. What I'm hoping for is as many pictures from as many different angles as people here could provide, this will help me make sure it is as close in design as I can get it. As I don't get the chance to see one in real life, pictures will have to do!
If they are quite big pictures, or you feel there are too many to post (eg. I don't want to waste the owners space/bandwidth), get in touch and you can email them to me, if possible.
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Location: richwood,ohio | you work for gibson,don`t you?welcome to the site. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Is that Henry? What's he doing here? |
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| No, I don't work for Gibson, I live in Ireland. It would be a long commute if I did. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Welcome to the board, as a son of an Irish mother Green is my favorite color.
My unsolicited advice is don't try to be Josh Homme, there are a ton of great Ovation guitars, solid body and acoustic/electric that are not fads and are affordable and are great sounding guitars. Buy a cheap Viper and load it down with new pickups, necks etc. and you will totally impress your friends. Just ask Moody pie, our resident private eye rock star stand in.
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Location: NJ | green is my favorite color also.
the color of money! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Welcome creative_one, we all like green here. Basically the guitar is a les paul shape. Take one and put it on paper and trace the body. Then rework the top body part into a horn. It flows right out of the curve that's there. Try to make it look like the treble horn. The neck attachment area is the same for both guitars, the horn is all in front of it. |
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| Green is a nice colour, isn't it!
I really like the GP but for the money they go for now, I can build a guitar myself, pretty much exactly how I want it.
A question I would really like to know the answer to, how do you think a GP style guitar would look with a tele control plate on the front with those little chrome pot knobs? I really love both those features on both guitars but I can't imagine if it would look stupid on a GP. I tried a mock-up in Photoshop but it didn't really help. Any ideas? I need to put 6 pots in the guitar, so those little small ones would take up the least amount of space.
Thanks for the replies everyone, I also found the Gallery on the main website, very useful for me! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | small pots and the tele knobs would be ok but the control plate won't work unless you make it as flat top. The GP was arched. |
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| Is the GP has bloated and as heavy as a Les Paul? In pictures I've seen it doesn't look like the carved top is all that drastic.
It doesn't "look" heavier than a Les Paul but then again, my eyes weren't really made for weighing things! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Pretty much is. It was meant to be a direct knock off with the horn added to make it different enough to keep Henry away. |
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Location: New Jersey | The GP is lighter than the Les Paul. But the GP is still pretty heavy.
oh btw...it sounds 100 times better which is all that really matters...hehe |
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Location: N.Ireland | Your chance to see one in real life has just got better, Where do you live in Ireland?. |
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Location: PA | six pots? How about using a pair of push/pull? or maybe like you said a tele style - they make 'em stacked on a the tele with the fishman pup.
Is it going to be a greenburst? I'll be curious to see how it comes out. I'll send some pics soon. |
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