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| I recently aquired a Celebrity Ovation Electric guitar and was wondering when and even if these guitars were made or are still being made. A friend found it at a pawn shop for $25. Its in fairly bad shape, but seeing it was a celebrity I agreed to take it to work on it. I checked the Ovation site and found nothing on electrics. It seems to be made in Korea, but I cant find a year. Any information will be helpful. Thanks in advance..
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Location: Vernon, CT | Celebrities are currently made in Korea and are a decent guitar for the money. Play On!
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Location: Tennessee | The Celebrity electrics were made in Korea for a couple of years in the late 80's. Others here know more detail on who they subbed the work out to, but by in large a period of time i think Ovation would rather forget. That said, these were pretty good guitars for what they were ... cheap.
I have two of them that I bought for my youngest son to get his electric career started on ... the first one got damaged during shipment to me and became a part of a project (see other post). The other one is being used by my son now ... here's a pic:
You can fix yours up with readily available parts (pickups, bridges, etc) from other vendors, but Ovation doesn't support these any more. You can even upgrade necks and bodies at your pleasure, but remember these are more Jackson scale than Fender scale so bear that in mind. |
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| yup, thats it! Thanks alot for the info.. i'm gonna work on this guy a bit... im thinking with enough love, i can get this guitar singing again... thanx again guys...
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Location: Tennessee | Good luck, let us know how it turns out, and post pics when you can. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Welcome Jay
As a Viper solid body owner, this revelation of another type solid body with Ovation connections has been Very interesting, if you can get it working good let us know, I didn't even know they existed, now we have two of them in play.
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Location: Midland, MI | Bailey-
I think AlPep has a Celebrity GS (stratocopy style) on his web site for a not unreasonable amount. They come up on fleaBay from time to time, as well. |
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Location: Houston, TX | The Celebrity electric isn't the same as the Ultra GS from the "Hardbody" series. Quite different animals, actually. All the Celebrities I've seen felt and sounded like bad Charvel/Jackson knock-offs. I always thought the Ultra GS was a much better guitar, especially the s/s/h. Samick bodies, schaller hardware, Dimarzio p/u's, assembled in North Carolina. |
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Celebrity Electric Guitar
