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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Just out of curiosity-- is there a reason why guitar makers no longer make truss rods accesible at the headstock? "Back in the day," most, if not all, guitars--Ovations included-- had little triangular truss rod covers on the headstock, just above the nut. Very neat, easy to get to. In recent years, most truss rods are now accessible through the soundhole on traditonal acoustic guitars. Of course, on Ovation "epaulette" guitars, this just isn't practical.
So they put that godawful "manhole cover" on the back of the bowl!
I know it's not that big of a deal and you can't see it for the most part (and it doesn't really change my high opinion of those guitars or my enjoyment of them), but on such an otherwise elegantly-designed, aesthetically beautiful guitar, it's jarring to see that sewer lid on the back. It's like getting a nice piece of steak home from the meat market only to discover it's green on the underside. It's like ogling a drop-dead gorgeous woman and discovering she has an angry, bright-red "third eye" zit staring back at you from her forehead (or in this case, her derriere--which wouldn't matter unless...never mind).
Anyway, I was wondering if there's a reason why you really CAN'T (or shouldn't) access the truss rod through the headstock anymore? Is it bad for the neck? It seems to me the epaulette models would be aesthetically perfect if they had a tidy little truss rod cover on the headstock instead of that... thing on the back. I stay up nights wondering about pittly stuff like this. Like, how does Superman ever get a haircut? He's invulnerable, and his hair would break any scissors or clippers..... |
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Location: Chicago | All the LX models have a truss rod cover on the headstock and also an accessible hole in the bowl. |
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Location: SoCal | TAKE YOUR MEDS... although nothing will get you over it, the meds can help you live with it.
Or get a Slothead and live happily ever after. |
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Location: Tracy, CA | The cover allows access to the electronics and on older models, the battery. |
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Location: Scotland | Personally I prefer the look of Ovation headstocks with the neck rod access at the head, plus it's easier to get at. The downside is that the pocket that the adjustment nut sits in introduces a structural weakness into an already vunerable point. Guitars with neckrod access at the body end stand more of a chance of surviving with the head still attached in the event of an accident. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Interesting. So the manhole cover has been multipurpose over the years? Now that I've taken my meds, it all seems so much clearer. Superman cuts his own hair with a mirror and his heat vision..... |
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Location: NJ | Won't his heat vision melt the mirror??
(unless of course, he uses a dichroic mirror) . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | . . . .a must |
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Location: N.J. | Oh holy hell....now ya did it!! What about his nails? How would he cut his nails? Or shave for that matter?! well,i'm shot for today now,thanks.
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Actually, Cliff, the mirror is from the windshield of the spaceship he arrived in as a baby from the planet Krypton. Using his thumbnail, he cut a perfect circle out of the glass (he's hell on strings when he fingerpicks)and silvered the back of it.
Then he mounted the circular piece of glass in one of those flippin' manhole covers from the back of a CS-257! |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | OK...I'm gonna go look at a different thread. John <>{ |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Why don't they just make guitars with holes in the front?
A friend recently bought an ebay guitar where the prior owner cranked down on the truss rod from the headstock and broke the truss rod and the fretboard. We couldn't figure out how to get the trussrod out. (an Ultra GS) |
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"MANHOLE COVERS" ON EPAULETTE MODELS