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does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??

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Jason_S
Posted 2006-09-25 12:45 AM (#238690)
Subject: does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??


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i was just looking at the bolws on my varrious ovations and was wondering if my floklore has a fiberglass bowl? the bowl on the folklore is different from my martix and old applause(not shure on the modle of the applause because all the lables are missing,it was todays flea market find). just wondering...jason
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bauerhillboy
Posted 2006-09-25 12:17 PM (#238691 - in reply to #238690)
Subject: Re: does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??


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Older bowls were laid-up fiberglass, newer ones are injection-moulded. I'm not sure what year the switch was made. They look different on the inside, and some of us think the laid-up ones sound better. I'm sure someone else will say.
John <>{
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moody, p.i.
Posted 2006-09-25 12:27 PM (#238692 - in reply to #238690)
Subject: Re: does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??


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The switch was made somewhere around 1983-84.....
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Steve
Posted 2006-09-25 12:30 PM (#238693 - in reply to #238690)
Subject: Re: does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??


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Aren't some of the new reissue models made with the original-bowl process? You know the old saying..'if it ain't broke don't fix it'.. ;)
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moody, p.i.
Posted 2006-09-25 1:00 PM (#238694 - in reply to #238690)
Subject: Re: does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??


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The "new" reissues do have the hand laid fiberglass bowls....
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Jason_S
Posted 2006-09-25 1:45 PM (#238695 - in reply to #238690)
Subject: Re: does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??


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moody you seem my 1114 at the gathering,i belive master templeton placed her around '72-'74?? i was just wondering because the bowl on the folklore has some flex and the bowl on my matrix and applause dont have any flex they are stiff and brittle.. jason
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Paul Templeman
Posted 2006-09-25 1:56 PM (#238696 - in reply to #238690)
Subject: Re: does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??


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I guessed at around'76/77. The serial number will tell you exactly. The Applause and Matrix were made with a different material and process to the rest of the guiars of the era. Ovation called it Lyramold as opposed to Lyrachord.
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Jason_S
Posted 2006-09-25 2:09 PM (#238697 - in reply to #238690)
Subject: Re: does my folklore have a fiberglass bowl??


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ahhhh,yes yes now i rember. so there for it is a fiberglass bolw..jason
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