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luthier444
Posted 2006-12-13 7:48 PM (#226810)
Subject: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Of cource it will cost a lot but hey thats the way it is?? First of all take a ADAMAS black walnut neck with K-Bar.. Match it up with Adirondack or german spruce.. LX style X brace, of cource modified by me.. Rosewood bowl either roundback or A-Wedge with Op Pro or LR BAGGS electronics... All figured maple or Korina bindings , Gloss fingerboard and neck as well as the whole body .. Access door and pinless bridge with keyways in top for the string balls.. No lifted bridges.. YUMM!!! Waist forward design to give a 12 fret guitar boom to it with keeping the 14 fret playability . Not to mention no sliding off the knee or uncomfortable standing playability if its an A-Wedge..

Scallopped cutaway
NO heel!!!
Bolt on neck!! Neck set might sound better though???


More to it but thats my 2 cents.. Thanks
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Jeff W.
Posted 2006-12-13 7:52 PM (#226811 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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moody, p.i.
Posted 2006-12-13 8:04 PM (#226812 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Why K-bar as opposed to the new system?
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Slipkid
Posted 2006-12-13 8:06 PM (#226813 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??



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Wow.. you dream big.
I still get excited by a "plain ole" koa top.
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gh1
Posted 2006-12-13 8:10 PM (#226814 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Originally posted by Slipkid:
Wow.. you dream big.
I still get excited by a "plain ole" koa top.
Do you think it would take med. strings to drive a koa top, or would lights do as well?

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gh1
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luthier444
Posted 2006-12-13 8:12 PM (#226815 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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I like the K-Bar because it only needs adjusting 2 times a year..
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moody, p.i.
Posted 2006-12-13 8:30 PM (#226816 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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When you live in CT, the K-bar needs adjusting twice a year. In CA, I've got K-bar neck guitars that have never needed adjusting....
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FlicKreno aka Solid Top
Posted 2006-12-13 8:52 PM (#226817 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Luthier,how about a case that accomodates the looong wrench to adjust a multi-hole ? BTW I`d order described guitar if it was made as a JUMBO Right Away

Vic
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dvd
Posted 2006-12-13 9:09 PM (#226818 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??



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What's an A-Wedge?
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cruster
Posted 2006-12-13 9:33 PM (#226819 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
When you live in CT, the K-bar needs adjusting twice a year. In CA, I've got K-bar neck guitars that have never needed adjusting....
You have to adjust the neck?
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Joyful Noise
Posted 2006-12-13 10:15 PM (#226820 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Originally posted by cruster:
You have to adjust the neck?
Luthiers are often perfectionists. I've seen his work on the the inlays on the S771 cedar topped models at GC, I think he qualifies.

Very intrigueing guitar he's thinking about. Am I right in that he's talking about a wooden roundback guitar? That's an interesting strategy if Ovation should pursue it. I think it would get alot of people who don't give USA made Ovations a chance to pick one up and try it. You know those people like Fretjob in the other new member thread. Could marketing be thinking outside the box?

Or is he just thinking about his next home-made basement project?

Who knows? He certainly is a tease, though!
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Joyful Noise
Posted 2006-12-13 10:21 PM (#226821 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Or maybe he should be called Luthier666?

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First Alternate
Posted 2006-12-14 6:10 AM (#226822 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??
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The perfect guitar is always the one you wish you hadn't sold.
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Beal
Posted 2006-12-14 8:16 AM (#226823 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??



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CT always needs a twice a year tweek. It's that stupid hot/cold thing. Fla doesn't need it either, like Mr Moody pointed out.
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cliff
Posted 2006-12-14 8:52 AM (#226824 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Either the (truss rod)neck in my SlotHead is solid as a rock, or I'm just too sh!tty of a player t'notice any difference, but it's never had a neck tweak since I've known it . . .
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brainslag
Posted 2006-12-14 9:27 AM (#226825 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Can you make me one of those on the sly?
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cms-man
Posted 2006-12-14 4:28 PM (#226826 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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Hey he didnt do those inlays. I did.
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Joyful Noise
Posted 2006-12-14 4:31 PM (#226827 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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As soon as I saw your name next to this thread, I realized that.

I stand corrected.

And let me add, very nice work!
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cms-man
Posted 2006-12-14 6:48 PM (#226828 - in reply to #226810)
Subject: Re: Can I tell you what the perfect Ovation is??


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We are all on the same team.
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