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Location: Delaware | Had my fat short arm buried in the sound hole of my 1717 Legend replacing the output jack. Stretching and straining to get the new jack to the hole at the bottom of the bowl, I heard a terrifying wooden sounding "POP". Oh sh#@, I closed my eyes and slowly pulled my arm out, afraid to look. When I did look I couldn't see anything cracked or broken, so I started checking braces and stuff inside. Still nothing, but I knew it was wood I heard crack ! Turned out to be that my fat forearm popped the rossette from the soundboard as I struggled to get the jack to its hole. A little glue and all's well. Whew !! Next time I'll wait for my girlfriend with the skinny arms to help ! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | That had to be scary!
Glad it all worked out. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Actually a piece of thread dropped in from where the jack goes works well. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Nothing worse than holding a guitar and having it make a sound it wasn't intended to make. Kind of like when I play..... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I think I would have soiled my britches...  |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by stephent28:
That had to be scary! Scary would be the girlfriend with the fat arms. |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Nothing worse than holding a guitar and having it make a sound it wasn't intended to make. Kind of like when I play..... That was PRICELESS, Trader!!!
I can't stop laughing.
Just so familiar I guess! :D
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Location: 6 String Ranch | What do you pray for? More guitars? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | This is why I think All Ovation oughta have them little manhole covers on the back! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
This is why I think All Ovation oughta have them little manhole covers on the back! OMA,
Nothing personal, but I don't think I'll be loaning ya any of my 'O's! 
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Location: On The Fringe Of Ground Zero | Whew! :eek: That was a close call! Glad everything turned out fine! :cool: |
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Location: Waterloo, IL | Manhole covers would be a little bit heavy on the back of an O, plus it would take a very heavy duty strap to hold it up when you play standing up. Can't figure out how to hold a manhole cover in my lap with my O. |
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Location: Delaware | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
Actually a piece of thread dropped in from where the jack goes works well. Yea,I wasn't thinking. I use that technique when fishing cables and wires when I'm working on my motorcycles. Shudda applied that technology here. (Dummy!) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Monofiliment fishing line has been my friend for a long time... Especially with the 335 bodies! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Glad everything is OK. |
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