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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Does Woody have a Woody store? I keep seeing all these great guitars and wonder if any are for sale? Looks like he's got a knack Bill Kaman would be proud of! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Jus' askim. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | I scavenged parts over several months to have MWoody build something completely custom for me. UK2 neck, chrome bridge and tuners, viper pups, etc. The crowning achievement was when he stripped a white breadwinner body and carved it down to a "limited" form with a natural oiled mahogany finish.
I've seen Mike post them here or on eBay, but best to contact him directly if you have a vision or to see if he has anything knocking around the shop.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Not a professional, just an obsessive compulsive woodworker with a Government day job.
Parts are getting way tougher to find as is the time to pursue ideas.
The best part is hanging around a bunch of Ovation nuts that keep you going!
I am hoping to retire in a few years and start dinking around in a more serious way. |
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Location: Denver, CO | I love the monogrammed trc!
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That really is an interesting build, nice work. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Pure Tung Oil on Mahogany is a wonderful thing. |
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When you strip the paint, how do you protect the Ovation logo on the neck head stock? What did you do with the jack hole inside the bottom cutout, did you plug it up? If I had commissioned this, I would have asked for the pickups to be moved further up. Those pickups were known to be nasty bright and moving them toward the bridge just emphasizes that character. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Mike had (has?) a stash of Ovation decals for headstocks and pick guards. I can't recall the original finish on the neck, but once it was stripped and refinished, he placed a new decal.
The body was from a later model white breadwinner. The earlier breadwinners had the jack output in the cutout and then it migrated to the pick guard.
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Thanks, I didn't know Ovation moved the jack hole, do you know the year they did? It also looks like the bridge pickup was moved to a mellower spot. If you've ever heard a standard Viper, what are your sonic impressions by comparison? |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | I will have to defer to Mike on both of those. I don't have enough exposure to a stock viper to provide a useful comparison. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I believe that the Breadwinner with the Torroidal Pups and Nylon saddle had the jack on the cutout and when they changed to the brass saddle they changed the circuit board and placed the jack in the PG.
Breadwinners with Torroidal pups and Brass saddles had the PG jack and were replaced by the mini sized pups.
The Viper pups are pushed "up" toward the neck end of the cavity cut for the larger torroidal pups.
I don't think I did this consciously but it worked nicely.
Does it sound like a Viper?
It sounds like a Mahogany Viper (in lieu of the Maple Vipers) but I am not an accomplished Electric player and much of the nuance is wasted on me.
I could use some lessons on how to really play these beasts! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Sometimes simple is the right thing to do... 
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Location: NW Washington State | Mike-
I have a Breadwinner with nylon saddles, toroidal pickups, and the jack on the pickguard. It also has a mediocre refinish, so who knows?
Do you really use pure tung oil, not the common tung oil "finish"? Does it take long to dry?
-Steve W.
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Location: Jet City | that guitar with UKII electronics would be AWESOME! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Steve,
The Pure Tung Oil takes a very long time to catalyze, maybe months.
It sounds impossible if you just got the guitar and you can't put it down but David has had his a few years now and if it gets dinged or bumped he can run some 320 across it and dot some oil over the spot and its healed.
You can refresh with fretboard polish if needed.
Damon,
Start locating the parts bro! |
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So, the latest Breadwinners used the same mini pickups as the Preacher? Did their sound start to mimic the sterility of the Preacher? Do you know if these later Breadwinners used the same pots and caps as the Preacher? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I do not know the answers G. |
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