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Location: Nashville TN. | My battery light burned out on the op-24.
I put a paper on the battery cover with the
date the battery was installed.
I just looked in on it and noticed My top is two pieces the large lower part grain run up and down like most tops. The other piece the grain runs side to side. Are all of them like that?? :confused: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | no, should be just a normal top, just not pretty enough for a natural finish. maybe you're looking at the reinforcing birch veneer under the sound holes? that went cross grain. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Looks the the top, its equal hieght.
The joint is right across the top about 1/2 an inch
below were the fret board ends,
Grain goes side to side.
5 of the 10 braces run all the way to the top body.
It doesn't have sound holes it has two lightening strikes. Its not just around the lightning strikes.
It covers the upper 1/3rd of the inside of the top. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's the birch. It's sanded smooth for a blend. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | It doesn't have sound holes it has two lightening strikes. Same thing! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The elite tops are the same way. The spruce would split if it wasn't reinforced somehow. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Interesting Now that I can see it in brighter day it looks like it birch. I never noticed it before.
Thanks for info. |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | Interesting how Ovation always advertised having bracing parallel to the grain for better sound, and mentioning that cross bracing used in the competition's guitars stiffened up the sound, but in reality, Ovation was cross-bracing with the birch.
Well, they did mention it in the catalog in the 80's (re-enforced with birch veneer for outstanding highs), but it seems to conflict with the magazine ads for the Elite which ran a couple of years later. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Erniewan:
they did mention it in the catalog in the 80's (re-enforced with birch veneer for outstanding highs), but it seems to conflict with the magazine ads for the Elite which ran a couple of years later. A marketing campaign that contradicts the last marketing campaign? Come on now, get serious. I do this for a living.
Dave |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's called job security.
ALWAYS have something new. |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | only thing was, both marketing campaigns were taking place at the same time..
probably why my living is made in Technical. I never understood business very well.
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