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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | This post in another thread got me thinking..
xraiderman - 2015-05-11 4:31 PM
If think if you look at what Godin is offering you can see Ovation was very ahead of the game. That's ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THAT "Forrest Gump"
Lets list all of the innovations we can think of here with as much background as we know about them.
- The first to bring decent active electronics into Production (Breadwinner).
- Ovation's pickups. While many saw these as a mistake due to being a unique size, The Viper, Breadwinner and UKII pickups are some of the best pickups ever produced for guitar.
- The UKII's non-magnetic rail design
- Taking the Travis Bean to the next level and using a composite body (UKII)...
- Thinking about ergonomics probably long before it was a common word
- The bowl design (the shape)
- The new bowl design (glass bead)
- The Contour Bowl
- Using a Vibrometer to measure the guitar tops and find the bast placement for bracing, sound holes and such.
- The Acoustic/Electric guitar.
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Location: Utah | The multi-hole design.
Fibronic top on the Adamas.
Suspension Ring.
String feed through design of the bridge.
K-Bar.
LX neck with carbon fiber stiffeners.
OPP pickup.
Shimmed pickup/saddle assembly.
XLR output.
Phantom powered preamp.
Textured top.
Snot blob pickguard.
I'm not sure all of those were innovated by Ovation, so correct the list if wrong. |
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Location: Jet City | Aren't we going to run out of things to post here quick? Y'all got it covered for the most part in 2 posts. Did we mention the FET preamps? Synth pickups on an acoustic?
Edited by Damon67 2015-05-12 12:21 PM
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | damon67 - 2015-05-12 10:20 AM Aren't we going to run out of things to post here quick? Y'all got it covered for the most part in 2 posts. Did we mention the FET preamps? Synth pickups on an acoustic?
I think we take for granted some of the innovations.
We could even include some build innovations like:- using recycled fire hose pumped with air as a neck clamp.
- Using suction (on the bowl) to hold the instrument in place while it goes through different stages of the build.
- The goofy machine that has foot operated vacume plungers that hold the binding in place while being applied
- using newsprint coated with glue between the neck and neck socket on the solid bodies making them something between a setneck and a bolton.
- The tri-mount pickup
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | mileskb - 2015-05-12 12:04 PM
using newsprint coated with glue between the neck and neck socket on the solid bodies
Using Bible verses or a Dollar Bill? 
I thought that was an old trick?
And I thought that was for Luck...
and to make it easier to get them back apart.
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Location: SoCal | re; "Using Bible verses or a Dollar Bill?" Maybe the Bible on the Deacon... |
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Location: Tennessee | Tony Calman - 2015-05-12 3:24 PM re; "Using Bible verses or a Dollar Bill?" Maybe the Bible on the Deacon... Definitely on the Preacher. But it was the Viper that started the whole damn mess. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Replaceable necks. Nice idea, anyway. A "BOON" for the BFLG. |
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