About This Listing

The guitar is being listed at good condition, because it plays well, and it is fully functional, but the finish would maybe be listed as fair. It has dings all around it, that you can see in the pictures. There are two points for someone tried moving the strap button. It is not mint, but it is a great player and sounds really neat.

The guitar featured a hollow body aluminum frame encased in a mold of urelite, a dense urethane foam. This made the guitar light, and the hollowness gave it a very distinct sound. The neck of the guitar was glued to the body and then bolted to the frame, so that along with the hollow body this would allow for maximum sustain. The pickups were custom-made by Ovation. Each coil was wound 10,000 times, more than most pickups, resulting in a high amplitude. The pickups also included switches that would switch the wiring in the pickups from in series to parallel, effectively turning the hum bucker into a single coil in sound quality on the fly. The guitar also had a mono and a stereo output, where the stereo separated the two pickups into their own channels.

Listed3 months ago
Condition
Brand
Model
  • UK II
Finish
  • Burst
Year
  • 1981
Made In
  • United States
Color Family
  • Brown
Right / Left Handed
  • Right Handed
Number of Strings
  • 6-String
Body Shape
  • Single Cutaway
Neck Material
  • Mahogany
Body Type
  • Solid Body
Pickup Configuration
  • HH
Nut Width
  • 1.69"
Scale Length
  • 24.75"
Bridge/Tailpiece Type
  • Top-Load
Fretboard Material
  • Ebony
Neck Construction
  • Bolt-On
Number of Frets
  • 24

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Pedals-R-Us

Tomball, TX, United States
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Product Overview
The Ovation UK II (standing for Ultra Kaman II) - also known as Model 1291 - featured a body made of Urelite (a form or urethane) over an aluminum frame. The body also used a set neck with dual humbuckers. 

Because of its novel design, the UK II is somewhat collectible currently as a curiosity or player's guitar.
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