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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Someone got a heck of a deal ($650) on a nice piece of O history. |
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Location: SoCal | I don't think it sold.... |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | The auction page says it is sold and they emailed me to say it was sold for $650. I had made and inquiry as to what exactly was on the tag. Were 4 digit serial numbers ever used around that period?
I hope someone here got it. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by moody,
I think that Temp had a whole box of them once and tossed them because nobody wanted them. Fads come and go...... [/QB] 20-odd years ago maybe, I had a box full of Prismatones, probably a couple of dozen, along with a bunch of preamps, given to me by the late Jim Burns. Yes, they are highly prized by the Chet, Jerry and Willie freaks, but nobody else cares. I chucked them because in my opinion and for my taste they didn't work very well and didn't sound very good at all. The preamps were less than stellar too. I've since played a couple of original Baldwins that did nothing but confirm that. Amazing how Artist association can elevate something to almost mythological status, whether it deserves it or not. Ultra GP for example. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | what he said. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I never did update this thread with the end result of the story.
I took the guitar to a local luthier that I use when there is something I don't want to tackle myself and he did a great job on the repair. You have to be looking for it to notice and it is definatly not detectable to the touch.
The verdict is that I love it and play it ALL the time. It's got a nice tone unplugged although it's not very loud. Plugged in however, it sounds great with the Prismatone pup.
It doesn't have the onboard preamp so I run it out straight into my LR baggs Paracoustic DI which is a great improvement over the original Baldwin preamps.
One curious thing about it is that the volume knob is reverse taper which makes one feel a little dislexic the first few times you use it but you get used to it!
I shimmed under the pup with a piece of plastic to get more break-angle on the saddle but I have some rosewood veneer ordered that I will use to make a better (and thicker)shim.
And last but not least, it is a beautiful, insanely rare instrument built by one of the best guitar companies ever for one of the greatest artists to ever spank a plank... or to quote an old Ovation ad, "The Worlds Best and Played by the World's Best".
Yeah, I like it... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Congrats Wayne...cool story and great guitar! |
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Location: Paris/France | Congrats again Wayne !!
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | And thanks again to you, Jérôme, for giving me the chance to get this. Without your help, it would never have happened. |
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Location: SoCal | Wayne, w/o saying WHO you bought it from, who did you buy it from? |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Paul;
I got it from a guy by the name of Scott that lives in Torrance, California.
In 1980, a friend of his found the guitar in a pawn shop located in Hawaii, where they both lived at the time. Scott was learning to play guitar and his friend agreed to sell it to him for what he paid for it, which I understand was not very much, perhaps because of the repaired headstock and maybe being mistaken for a production model signature series GC model. How it ever got to the Hawaiian pawn shop in the first place remains a mystery.
Scott had eventually moved to CA and never did get into guitar playing much so the guitar spent most of the next thirty years stored in the attic.
Fast forward to late 2010: Scott thought he would find out a little more about the guitar and perhaps sell it. I'm not sure how he found out about Jerome and his website but I assume it was via a web search.
Jerome thought he might know a good home for it and contacted me (Merci, Jerome!) and eventually, Scott and I worked out the details.
Jerome;
Feel free to correct me on any of this or fill in any information blanks that you know about! |
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Location: SoCal | Wayne, the Adamas SSB Country Artist that was built for Glen ended up in a pawn shop in the Phoenix area. Glen went to the same church as the owner of the shop. It was purchased by a guy who gigged with it for quite a while. Then sold on eBay to the current owner. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Paul;
The sister guitar to that one, the SSB GC Adamas I proto also came form a pawn shop in Stillwater OK.
I don't know how that one got there either. They had it advertised on Ebay as a 'GC Artist Balladeer'. |
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Location: Thailand | Congratulations.
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Glen Campbell's Country Artist Prototype X014
