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Location: Ohio | Has Ovation made, or has anyone here has custom made a guitar with the top made fomr two different types of wood? Say Spruce on teh treble and redwood on the bass. Just wondering how it would affet the overall sound /tonal qualities. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Sounds like a project for OMA!!!
Buy 2 perfectly good guitars, saw them in half, glue 'em together (repaint optional), and head for the street for a good day of busking. |
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Location: Tennessee | Yes. Ovation made a few guitars where the top was half spruce and half cedar. I think it was sometime in the 90's. Never made it to the big time and I've heard there was nothing special about them. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I can't imagine how that could be of any tonal benefit. Even if you THINK the treble openings will give you a brighter response of, say the spruce, and bass openings the warmth of the cedar, there'd be too much crossover.
Maybe they were thinking that a blend of cedar and spruce would be tonally unique...being that back and sides are normally hog, rosewood, maple, etc, but NOT cedar or spruce. I'm not surprised it didn't catch on.... |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by dark bar:
Sounds like a project for OMA!!!
Buy 2 perfectly good guitars, saw them in half, glue 'em together (repaint optional), and head for the street for a good day of busking. DB, that's cruel and unkind...
But bloody funny! |
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Location: Ohio | POst it on E-bay as a lost prototype and ask an ungodly ammount of money ?? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Found it!
The topic was Black & Tan
The link to the photo is gone though. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Y'know, youse guys shouldn't oughta debate stuff like dis. Some damphool's gonna build another one.
"I resemble that remark"
"You certainly do, Stanley." |
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