I finally was able to purchase my "always wanted" guitar, a Adamas 12 string.

I got it a REALLY good price, but as in anything in life, the "too good to be true" happened to me. I was deceived by the seller and received my Blue W598 in a condition I that was not even close to the description. There were a lot of photos carefully hiding all the flaws. One of them being a severely bowed/caving of the sound board.

I fired off a scathing email and was given two options, return or "How much to fix it" off of the purchase price. I gave a amount where I was promptly refunded almost 1/3 of the price.

I have Carbon fiber guitars (one other Adamas 6 and one Rainsong) so this is not new territory for me. The previous owner (not the seller) was using heavy strings and standard tuning. The wood braces were all attached, but had warped throughout the years.

I contacted Ovation (Drum Works) about repairing it and still no response to date.

I have no intention of selling this beauty so I started to look at all of the options I could. I have had good success with the Bridge Doctor on a few old 12 strings and even one 1977 Ovation 1115-1. I know Ovations do not have the large wood block, but this project is different. Carbon fiber is a little more flexible than wood so if I used a Bridge Doctor I would not need as much tension to correct the problem.

But here is the issue, the Ovation bracing is a fan setup and one of them is directly in the middle.

Sooo, why not two Bridge Doctors? An inexpensive repair and the load would be spread out. I also noticed that the area around the strap button was reinforced with extra material giving me a stronger surface to work with.

It worked. 

The dual setup has almost eliminated the bow/Caving in. The guitar sounds great and I saved my “always wanted guitar”.

Thank you for reading all of this. I hope it helps anyone with similar issues.

Ed

The Cold Solder Joint

Is this the side view you are looking for? 

Me too. I know they had gotten the shop up and running in Hartford this past year, but was unsure if they were doing repairs.

Ed.  

"I had never heard of the Bridge Doctor before now, so I watched the Stewmac demo video and I am now curious to know.. since the device raises a sunken top that is sinking on the sound hole side of the bridge, does the upward pressure on the sound hole side of the bridge also cause a downward draw on the other side of the bridge? Thus helping to lower an upward "belly bulging" of the top?"

Yes!