By M***.
October 02, 2026
First off let me say that that I have 2 Ovation guitars. One made in Korea and one made in China. This guitar is a inexpensive copy that is trying to look like the Ovation CS257, and it mostly pulls it off.
I bought this as a cheap guitar that I can leave at our cabin and have a spare guitar up there to play, and play it does. It has a great sound to it if you like the sound of Ovation guitars. Which means it has a bright sound, but not a deep tone.
This Glarry plays almost as good as my nice ...
First off let me say that that I have 2 Ovation guitars. One made in Korea and one made in China. This guitar is a inexpensive copy that is trying to look like the Ovation CS257, and it mostly pulls it off.
I bought this as a cheap guitar that I can leave at our cabin and have a spare guitar up there to play, and play it does. It has a great sound to it if you like the sound of Ovation guitars. Which means it has a bright sound, but not a deep tone.
This Glarry plays almost as good as my nice Korean made Ovation CS257, and seem to play a little better than my less expensive Chinese made Ovation GC057. They all three play and sound about the same.
I agree with the other reviewer here that the appliques on the guitar, while attempting to look the same as the more expensive Ovation, come off looking really cheap when you see it in person. These are just plastic stickers, whereas on the real Ovation they are actually wood laminate.
So what I did was just take my fingernail and very carefully peel them off. The "glue" that holds them on is really sort of a gummy substance that is easy to peel off with your fingers and then take a little furniture cleaner to clean off the residue. Once you do that, it is a really nice, clean looking guitar that I would take anywhere.
This would be a good inexpensive guitar for a spare, for a beginner, or for someone just getting back into playing guitar if you like the Ovation sound, look and the feel of the electric guitar style fretboard.
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