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Location: New Hampsha | Way Before (as built):
"After the fall":
"It's Alive!":
Bubinga top, ladder braced, Storm Tailpiece, cherry bridge, lotsa midrange. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Hot Jazz in old town tonight... Very Nice. |
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Location: SoCal | Interesting. Who did the work? Is the bridge a floater? |
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Location: New Hampsha | Thanks, I did the work myself. Here's a shot in process:
I was intrigued by the "Jazzbox" pics that had been circulating. I didn't like the off-the shelf tailpiece and other details, and dislike blond guitars.
I was also reading in "The American Blues Guitar" (Batey)and decided to adapt the ladder bracing described. That bracing system is supposed to yield a "super loose top with tons of midrange."
The top was obtained joined and planed from LMI (Great folks to deal with by the way). The four braces are double-scalloped, "T" sectioned. I eliminated other braces to make it more responsive, assuming the top didn't have much load to bear due to the tailpiece.
The bridge is NH cherry and is glued to line up the pickup hole for the OP-24+. The Storm tailpiece was a slam-dunk and matches the tuners, and doesn't dilute the Ovation gene pool.
Very mid-heavy in tone, and a nice finger-picker. I have to finish the op-24 install (the fall broke the face plates of the battery holder and OP unit so I have to scrounge/buy those). Can't wait to hear it amplified!
So it's a modified blues-guitar design, inspired by a jazz guitar, built on a '93 Collector's carcass. A suitable "Frankenstein" for All Hallow's Eve, n'est pas? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Very nice. Where'd you pick up the Storm tailpiece? I need one myself. |
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Location: New Hampsha | Miles had the NOS gold and I think he also had one NOS in silver. I snapped up the gold one.
If you can't find one I have a used silver 6 string one but it's missing the end bracket. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Thanks. I have an early T-Head with a non-standard chrome tailpiece and need a NOS goldtone piece to bring it back to stock (looking). |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | That's what Django might have played if Ovations had been available. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub |  |
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Location: Northeast USA | Gold Tone was the way to go!
Love the bench pics.
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Location: ms | Super nice!!!! |
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Location: The State of Hockey | Great work, that is a great looking guitar |
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Before/After