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Location: London, England | Just joined, great site and delighted to find so many fans of the Ovation.
Can someone please enlighten me?
I`ve just graduated from my Applause to my first Ovation. It is a 2004 Legend 1867 4HFX. My question regards the "solid spruce top". There is a line that appears to indicate that two seperate pieces of wood were used in the construction of the body surface. Is this correct? How can a solid top be made of two halves? I am probably just very naive and you all know the answer I`m sure but I would really appreciate some help. Also any comments on the model of guitar I`ve just purchased would be welcome.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | it is called bookmatching and done for asthetics as well was tone. It gives the top vibrational symmetry. If you were to cut an apple in half and lay the halves cut side up next to each other you would have book matched faces that look almost identical. The same kind of cut is made in the wood that makes your soundboard...
Scratchasack?...Baseball player?? |
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Location: NJ | It's two pieces of "bookmatched" solid spruce.
The Applause would be laminated thin "layers" of wood (like plywood).
Welcome, Mate! |
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| Yeh, right. An American speaking the Queen's English. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I doubt you could find pieces of spruce wide enough to make the full top out of one piece if you wanted to. The original Ovations were 3 pieces because Kaman had spruce 6 inches wide for helicopter blades.
Welcome to the club. Read a bunch of old posts. You'll enjoy your more. But most of all, play it as much as you can. |
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| "I doubt you could find pieces of spruce wide enough to make the full top out of one piece if you wanted to"
They'd better. They sold me mine as AAA spruce. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ...I'm not gonna tell him |
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Location: NJ | Don't wanna bust yer bubble, but it'll be two pieces . . . . |
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Location: London, England | Wow lads. I only registered an hour ago!! You really are awfully decent chaps (come on boys - that was worse than Dick Van Dyke in "Meeery Poppins"!!!)
Thank you to everyone who replied (Mark, schroeder, Jeff and Cliff), I am grateful and enlightened. I`m now off to sweep some chimneys!!!
PS - Jeff, not baseball me ol` china but music. |
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| Tell me what? :confused: |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by schroeder:
Tell me what? :confused: I don't think he is going to tell you. :D |
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| Bookmatched 2 piece I'm happy.
6" offcuts I'm not amused. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Quote by Bert:,
PS - Jeff, not baseball me ol` china but music.
Fortunately, I'm well versed in Cockney Rhyming Slang, thanks to Ambassador Schroeder. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Fortunately, I'm well versed in Cockney Rhyming Slang, thanks to Ambassador Schroeder. As a good friend of mine would say, "Bloody Southerners". :D |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by schroeder:
Go ahead, blame me.... I was really looking forward to telling you that your new guitar was going to have a two piece top...
so disappointed. |
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| I'm not a southerner by birth and tell your good friend to get stuffed. |
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Location: London, England | very good grilledcheese though a little disapointed you mix with our "northern" friends"!
As for Jeff, brilliant mate. Ambassador schroeder eh? Thats either the old german chancellor or a character from the new star wars film!!! |
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| "Thats either the old german chancellor or a character from the new star wars film!!!"
He's the current German Chancellor.
You'd better be an Arsenal fan........ |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | This raises an interesting question, Anybody seen a one piece top? On a flat top I mean? |
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Location: London, England | Barnet FC. Conference champions and friends of football.
Ps - as a "new-comer" I can`t help but notice that it is ages since anyone mentioned a guitar (just an observation). |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Soccer Hooligans!!!! I see much entertainment in the near future... |
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| Barnet are dependent on us for their very existence.
Yes I have seen and played a one - piece top. It was pathetic.... |
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Location: London, England | Jeff - soccer hooliganism is a problem that only affects our northern clubs (ie, West Ham, Millwall, Portsmouth etc).
I would have thought that one solid piece of wood would give a far better sound than two halves/pieces stuck together. No? |
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two halves and to hold!!!
