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Location: Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada | Howdy - I am new to the Ovation owners club and am wondering if there has been any issues with the bridge separating from the soundboard?
I have a 2008 Legend 1777 LX and the end of the bridge on the bass side appears to be lifting slightly. Have there been many other reports of the same issue? Too much humidity maybe?
If it continues to lift I would like to get it repaired properly. Should I have a local custom luthier do the repair or is this something that I should sent back to New Hartford to have repaired.
Any comments / suggestions / insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | If you're the original owner, it should be covered on warranty.
If not, a competent luthier should suffice. |
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Location: Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada | Not the original owner...sad to say.
Another question...does one think that pinless bridges are more succeptible to lifting, over a pinned bridge? It seems the pull from back end on a pinless bridge from the strings tension could cause stresses on the connection not seen when the strings are pinned and locked from down below. |
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Location: Texas | I had a 2005 LX Elite. I was sitting at my desk and I heard my guitar fall off the wall and hit the hardwood floor.
Problem was, It wasn't hanging on the wall and the room is carpeted. The bridge had popped off.
Although it wasn't an entirely clean break...it did not take any of the soundboard with it. I took it to a qualified luthier in Dallas and he was able to reattach it and it looked as if nothing had ever happened. I had several luthiers tell me they couldn't work on it due to the epaulets.
"continues to lift"
lol...There are many here that have forgotten more than I will ever know about bridge concerns, but I would suggest you take the torque off it and get it repaired now.
Otherwise, I would wear a goalie mask when playing. And Depends. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by jay:
I had several luthiers tell me they couldn't work on it due to the epaulets. What in the world do "the epaulets" have to do with reattaching the bridge? |
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Location: Texas | You know...the reason I cannot answer that is the same reason I just moved on to the next luthier. I figured they knew more about it than I did. I think I already disqualified myself as knowing jack about the topic. You didn't believe me, did you. lol
I don't know enough about it to attempt to make something up. I just assumed the absence of a hole (or ahole) posed a problem for the tools they had (not). |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by dark bar:
Originally posted by jay:
I had several luthiers tell me they couldn't work on it due to the epaulets. What in the world do "the epaulets" have to do with reattaching the bridge? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That makes some sense, Jay. It's easy to get a clamp through the soundhole to the bridge.
Back to the question about pinless vs. pinned bridges, I've seen at least one pinned bridge with splits radiating from each hole. There are 6 spots where there is less surface to hold onto. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I had a momentary lapse of mental functioning (must be all the halloween candy) |
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Location: closely held secret | Or the popcorn.
No, wait... it couldn't have been that. Not for you. |
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Location: NOR*CAL | Darn, i really wish i would have made a video, or at the least did a pic by pic how i re-attatched the bridge on my CC24. The sides of the bridge were flaring upwards, obviously just enough that there was really nothing to do but order a new saddle, or do what i did, which was modify the existing bridge. I essentially shaved the ends off, and shaped the bridge into kind of a half moon shape, pretty righteous to me. Shaped the bottom of the saddle to form perfectly with the contour of the top, chop sticked the screw holes, then epoxied(removed chop sticks!), let stand for 24 hr's, bam, solid as a rock. And most certainly a bridge i've never seen before. I actually did a nice mod to my CC29 which came flawed, another unique fix... |
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