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| Hopefully you guys can help me ID my new to me ovation.
This is my second ovation, the first was a celebrity that I got from a pawn shop 25 years of. I owned it for about 10 years and gave it to a friend.
I found my new one on Facebook marketplace and paid $100 for it. It definitely needs some work but I am looking forward to fixing it up.
Of course it has no serial number or model number that I can find.
It’s a shallow bowl acoustic, I believe it’s a hand laid bowl as it you can see the fiberglass strands inside, it’s got a unique rosette and odd tuning pegs.
I’d like to to try and adjust the action but I can’t find a truss rod adjuster, is that normal?
I have some photos that I can post if someone can activate that option for me.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I've upgraded you to full member and moved this here to a thread where others can respond. I'm not sure if this is a celebrity or something else. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Probably not an Ovation-related family member. The pinned bridge is not reflective of the brand. Tuners don't look top-drawer, either. The rosette doesn't appear similar to any Kaman product I have seen. May be an offshore knockoff that has a waterslide peghead decal on it. But, it might be a good playing instrument, though the shallow bowl probably doesn't give it much projection & volume. Good candidate for a decent preamp setup. Anyrate, enjoy it for what it is, and practice your BFLG skills on its resurrection. |
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Well I’m normally pretty aware of the potential for knock offs but I’ll admit it didn’t even occur to me that ovations had been copied, especially older ones.
The bridge discrepancy I didn’t catch until you mentioned it, and the tuners bugged me but being a knock off they make sense now.
Well I guess I’ll see what I can do with this one and keep an eye out for a real one to have as a project as well.
Thanks for the wisdom! |
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Location: Denmark | Welcome to the forum :-)
On Ovations with no truss rod access at the head you can access the nut (Insex) through the sound hole. You may need a mirror to see it. Speaking Ovations I dont think supershallow bowls (SSB) were ever made of glass fiber and I don't think acoustic only SSB guitars were ever made. The Ovation decal is incomplete and should be oriented perpendicular to the neck axis (i.e. not angled) etc. etc. In theory the tuners, rosette and bridge could have been swapped to something like what you have there but there are a lot of things which are difficult to explain ... |
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Location: When?? | +1 to what everyone else said in terms of it [not] being an Ovation/Kaman product. But heck, if it plays and makes music, then you are at least a step ahead of where you'd be if it didn't. |
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| Thanks guys.
I am looking forward to seeing what I can do with it. It’s funny one of the things that stuck out to me when I started playing it was how wide the neck was, I distinctly remember how narrow and easy to play my celebrity was. That being said I now have a guitar again and two days ago I didn’t. So I think it’s a win. I’ll definitely keep y’all posted once I figure out how to lower the action and when I buy my next hopefully real ovation, until then I’ll play on the “fauvation” |
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