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Location: Spain | My first ever Ovation has arrived!! I have no words to describe how beautiful it is!! I think I'm the happiest man alive right now!!!!
Beautiful 1868 Elite!!! I can't stop staring at it!
All is good, neck straight, all parts good...action is very high tho...need to sort that but....
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Thanks everyone for all your help!!
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Location: GA USA | Congrats! I certainly understand the love you're feeling. |
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Location: Spain | Thanks! Yes, it's absolutely unreal. I have never had this before with any guitar.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Congrats +2...I still remember my first O even over 35 years later...And you think this is great? Wait until you get your first Adamas....:-) |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Wait until you get your first Adamas....:-) [/QB] Congrats and enjoy her!!
I was playing only "Ovations" for a long time, I don't like the "plastic"-look of the Adamii. I've bought my first Adamas last year in September (thanx Arthur!!!), it was a 1681-7.... and now I've four of them (thanx Willa, Al and Nick). This 1681-7, I've sold to Jürgen Strupperich, also a member here, and I miss her so....
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Location: ms | My 1st was a 1868 and i loved it. |
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Location: Spain | Thansk guys, ok so there are no "shims" under the saddle. Next step to lower it? :( |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | Is the neck severely bowed? Fret at 1st and 14th and check height at 7. Should have tiny relief if fretted as noted... Could just require tensioning? |
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Location: Spain | Just done that mate, yes it's as you say, if I fret at 1st there's just a tiny height at 7th...is that what you mean?
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Location: California | Felicitaciones, now go for an Adamas! |
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Location: Spain | Thanks!
Ok, so when I do these string checks, i.e frettingn at 1st and 13th etc, it touches all the way fown the fretboard. But my Takamine does that too, and that plays like butter...(although the action on that is VERY low)...but that's how I want my new baby!!!!
I looked for those shims but it appears they have been removed already...(when you lift the saddle out, it all comes together right? the actual white bit doesn't come out right?)
I had a little look at truss rod, but couldn't even move it, and definitely don't want to force that!!!!
Not sure what to do now :-(( |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by martinez:
I looked for those shims but it appears they have been removed already...(when you lift the saddle out, it all comes together right? the actual white bit doesn't come out right?)
I'm not sure if I'm understanding, but under the saddle should be shims, then wood. If you see white in the slot where you took the saddle out, that's the shim(s). |
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Location: Spain | Thanks Mr O, just wood... |
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Location: NOR*CAL | Originally posted by martinez:
Thansk guys, ok so there are no "shims" under the saddle. Next step to lower it? :( Believing you don't have shims, get a measuring device that measures at least to the 32nd's. What i do is measure the middle of the low E string and the middle of the high e-string. You're whole goal is to keep your saddle even throughout your filing. Take the file to the bottom of the saddle maybe a few "strokes" at a time, measure, file some more if you have to, etc(making sure you are being precisely level,as can be, re-measure the high and low e-string). On all of my Ovations so far, i've been at just below 4/32nd's on my low E and approx 2/32nd's on my high E(again, that's me). You'd rather do your your "shaving" and/or action height at the bridge than at the the nut. Obviously all depends on your neck. But it seems consistent enough to assume that most would be described as i have...
If you try and have a question, and want to pause, lemme know... |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Now ... Can you hook me up with a steal on a nice Jose Ramirez 1A O:) |
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Location: Spain | Cheers for the advice locorogue but it's going to someone who has a better idea than me... |
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Location: NOR*CAL | Originally posted by martinez:
Cheers for the advice locorogue but it's going to someone who has a better idea than me... With respect, meaning what? |
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Location: Spain | Ha, sorry, it's going to a luthier, as I don't want to try messing with it.
I've played around with all my other guitars no problem, but they weren't this one :-) |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Congrats Martinez.
My 1868's were set-up with less than 1/8 inch at 12th fret with light gauge 12-53 strings.
If neck is straight, remove one or two shims under the saddle, it will fix it. |
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