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Location: Caribou, ME | Been waiting for this exact scenario to happen, and it finally did. I found an AA-14 on ebay with the typical bridge pull and plywood splintering. I am able to fix these where most everyone else wouldn't bother, but I was waiting for one with enough cosmetic damage to the top where it wouldn't be worth the time and effort. I also have an AA-14 bowl in need of a donor neck and yet another AA-14 in need of a rosette. This ebay purchase will donate neck and rosette so that 2 more will be complete and healthy.
The bowl will be cut away much like some anatomical model in a doctor's office, both for display and measurement purposes.
I would have happily paid as much for this dead one as I would a 'good' one, since some parts are needed elsewhere and I really want to make that cutaway model! Luckily I got by winning it for $49 shipped. Yes, I've bought them for $10 on ebay in the past but for some reason the prices have gone nuts lately.
I hope to find a dead neck to run through the bandsaw next, to show the aluminum frame and foam.
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Location: Texas | "One will die so more can live" Sounds like this should be called....ksdaddycare |
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Location: Caribou, ME | The neck went onto another bowl, the rosette went onto another bowl, the label went onto another bowl that was missing it, and the naked bowl has been cut open. I picked that thing cleaner than a school of pirhannas on a kitten. Next I'd like to find a 'beyond hope' neck to bandsaw open for display.
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| really cool, ksdaddy.
I'm very much a newbie to Ovations, and I didn't know that they used 4-piece soundboards or (nearly) fan bracing. At least I think that's what I'm seeing in the runout of this picture of the backside of the soundboard. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Chazmo - 2012-10-26 9:42 AM
really cool, ksdaddy.
I'm very much a newbie to Ovations, and I didn't know that they used 4-piece soundboards or (nearly) fan bracing. At least I think that's what I'm seeing in the runout of this picture of the backside of the soundboard.
There were many different types of tops and bracing used. The pictures show the underside of a laminated top, so the outside would probably look like a two piece. When you have some time, read some history of Ovation. They started with 3 piece tops, using spruce cut for helicoptor blades. Soundholes and bracing each deserve another chapter. |
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| I had a feeling that might be a laminated top, since I don't recall ever looking at an Ovation before (from the outside) and noticing four pieces (and that's the kind of thing I would). Thanks, Mark!
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One will die so more can live