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Location: New South Wales, Australia | I've seen it mentioned in a few different threads in the past few days so rather than sit here and wonder I thought I'd better ask.
How many pieces are usually in a neck and do they come with more than five.
I saw a four piece neck once but that was after watching a friend's guitar fall out of the back of a car and bounce down a dusty beach track. The body was in six pieces by the time it came to a stop. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | http://www.ovationguitars.com/index.cfm?fa=lxfeatures
5 slabs, look close |
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| oz - you gotta come to the Tour. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Originally posted by schroeder:
oz - you gotta come to the Tour. Yeah, there's so much to learn. I'm pitiful really. I just pick up my guitar and play and have been doing so for more than 25 years but I never give any thought as to what makes it all work.
Since joining the OFC I've come to realise how little I know so it's really got me thinking which is a good thing....and all this thinking has led me to ask questions that most people know the answers to.
As for coming to the tour, I'd love to be there but it's not gonna happen unfortunately. It's something I want to do one day but I can't see myself ever being financial enough to make the trip.
I have got the legs for a grass skirt though :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | At the tour I was a bit disappointed to learn that the 5 pc neck is more a cosmetic thing than something that adds to the strength of the neck. Rick Hall said that they keep it because it has become such visual trademark for Ovation.
I think it is one of Ovations coolest features. |
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| Totally agree. I noticed the VXT is a one piece. And the stripe is getting thinner every year. I bet it'll be a 3 piece before long and then it'll be gone and leave only old codgers like us moaning about the good old days.
I hate progress. |
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| oz - no probs. I'll try and organize a trip to bring the ofc to you. But there has to be guinness and absolutely no sign of fosters horse-piss or I'm not coming. |
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Location: SoCal | In the brochure for the Custom Adamas shop, it says that you can order the neck of your guitar with the traditional 5 piece neck or a 5 piece neck with narrower strips.
My 1773LX has a 5 piece neck but with narrow strips. Looks pretty good.... |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Originally posted by schroeder:
oz - no probs. I'll try and organize a trip to bring the ofc to you. But there has to be guinness and absolutely no sign of fosters horse-piss or I'm not coming. Guinness is easy and Fosters is banned in this particular household. I dunno any Aussies who drink it. |
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Location: NJ | Foster's Special Bitters isn't too bad . . .
I had some pretty good Colorado Microbrews last week . . . the added advantage was that they created enough methane to power the rental car . . . |
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| I've got two thinnies and a fatty. The thinny with the ebony centre (the ute) looks the best.
I'm sure that Frank U. was telling the truth at the last tour when he said that the latest truss rods make the five piece unnecessary - but it really is an Ovation trademark and one of the things I love most about them. I was real disappointed that the VXT doesn't have one. |
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| cliff - yes it is. |
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Location: south east Michigan | At the factory tour Q&A session I reffered to the 5 piece neck as the "Skunk Stripe".
I think the perhaps politically incorrect, yet very accurate & discriptive term caught some of the factory guys by surprise. For a few seconds it was... crickets, crickets, crickets. :eek: |
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Location: NJ | That's okay, . . Frank is STILL trying to figure out the "llama-thing" . . . |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | I've looked and looked, but I can't see five slabs. Herein lies my problem. My brain just doesn't seem to work that way when it comes to technical information :confused: |
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Location: south east Michigan | Check out this link to an e-bay sale.
This guy put together a really great auction advertisement. Scroll around and you'll see some good shots of the 5 pc neck feature.
e-bay page |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Check out this link to an e-bay sale.
This guy put together a really great auction advertisement. Scroll around and you'll see some good shots of the 5 pc neck feature.
e-bay page
Is the "skunk stripe" two pieces? |
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Location: south east Michigan | 3 slices sandwiched between the 2 large mahogany pieces. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Look at the back of the neck and you'll see 5 stripes, I think in that picture you'll see two wide pieces of mahogany sandwiching 3 slices, 2 maple and one of either mahogany or maple. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I meant ebony |
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Location: Kent, England | Now I know too...you do learn new things everyday. Well done for asking Oz!
Cheers |
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Location: ranson,wva | 5 peice neck  jason |
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Location: Up North | Jason, is that a before or after the neighbor's kids played "knock Jason's guitars off the wall"? |
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Location: ranson,wva | dave, that was a 1971 1111-1 balladeer that i bought on ebay last year that the top was split in 3 and the head was compleatly broken off of it. i reglued the head,put new mahog venneer on the face of the peghead and stablized,filled and leveled the top cracks.i had a thread going last year that had that project in it.....jason |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Now I get it...looking at all the pictures I thought I was beginning to understand and Jason's pic confirmed it for me..the light in my head just went on...so thanks everyone :) |
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What's a 5 piece neck?
