Ovation Bowl repairs

[Jeff Highland]

Got a new ovation in for setup and repairs

The top strap button on the bowl near the beck has pushed in with the bowl material delaminating

I'm going to relocate the button to the underside of the neck heel as a sturdier solution.

What should I use to stick back the damaged area? epoxy? CA?

[Keith]

you need to ask HESH.

[Kerry Krishna]

Jeff, can I ask why you don't just add a small block of wood inside the guitar were the pin was located before and just get it out the door?

[Jeff Highland]

The question is what to use for glue that will adhere well

There is only a small 1/2" dia area pushed in, which pushes back into place readily.

[Kerry Krishna]

 I would imagine that if you use a rough cloth wit acetone on it to wipe it down, then mixed up a small amount of epoxy with black shoe polish (if that matters) and screw it into place. The screw itself going through from the outside should pull any distorted plastic back into shape. Will this work do you think?

[Jeff Highland]

Unfortunately not, the screw and strap button has been pushed in not pulled out

[Russell Vance]

Hi Jeff,

Did one of these recently which had a jack punched in a bit more than you have got here.   made a couple of conformal veneer "large 2 inch  washers" for the inside and and 'slumped" with a heat gun, a plastic washer to go under the jack nut on the outside - gave it an initial hit with medium CA and bolted it up tight to get everything lined up using the washers as cauls.  Then released it all and filled in the missing bits with CA with some black dye mixed in, scrubbed it all flat with a micromesh coarse stick and then matted it up with some steel wool to polish the visual part to the same consistency as the bowl.   This negates having a hole visible and the wafered washers (load spreaders) and laminate are plenty strong.   

The same sort of thing applies to the strap pin problem - use the back port to access the inside and use a washer and a nyloc nut machine screw for the strap pin as the retainer for the inside load spreading laminates or block.   You have a half inch hole as it stands so a 3/4" outside plastic washer and dress washer is a better look than a patched bowl, especially as it will be under the strap end in play.

R.

[Jeff Highland]

Well pulled out the offending section.

The strap button will not be going back there

Whilst there was a washer inside under the nut, the bowl is paper thin, and I am not exaggerating, I really mean 4 thousandths of an inch thick.

Chinese Ovation Quality at it's best.

[Russell Vance]

Yoiks!  is there no end to the surprises that the dreaded Ovations continue to deliver - sorry i wasted yr time Jeff. R.

[Jeff Highland]

You didn't waste my time at all Russell, that's a valuable repair method to keep in mind for the next situation, just couldn't use it here

thanks

[Donald A. Fortune]

Hi Jeff-- I had a similar problem a few years back and I used two part epoxy to do the repair..

I put a block of hard wood (maple I think) and it took care of the problem..

I haven't had a recall on it as yet so maybe   that's what you can use too --

just my two cents--

Peace, Donald

[Jeff Highland]

Yes I ended up putting in some wood with epoxy

[Donald A. Fortune]

How did your repair work out Jeff?