I'm not sure when they finally threw in the towel on Aluminum necks, but they're gone. Much wider neck in hopes of eliminating warp. Re-launched the aluminum neck idea under a new name to try to avoid further tarnishing the Ovation name: new brand name was Kaman, same as the parent aviation company. Ovation realized this: they discontinued the product after the Applause failed too. He pulled it off, but every guitar repair service & luthier I've approached has refused to even try: not worth the effort. Tragically he died afterwards this may have been his last project. Paul McGorry invested way too much time & effort in a herculean task to accomplish this you can see his video on YouTube at. And the nature of their construction ensured they couldn't be rebuilt with a new neck.ĭidn't stop people trying. Worse: without a truss rod they couldn't be fixed. "Producing a neck immune to warpage." Ovation Matrix guitars became infamous for neck warp. Ovation claimed in their marketing material that none was needed: the aluminum neck would never warp. were die cast in a single unit": true, but there was no truss rod. The truss rod, peg head, fretboard and frets were die cast in a single unit, producing a neck immune to warpage by the effects of string tension or climatic change."ġ. You wrote "the neck was constructed from cast aluminum. It's crap construction played a part in my abandoning guitar for 25 years. I have one still failed product, but it did serve me well for about 5 years of very intensive use in summer camps, church & coffee house gigs. Significant inaccuracies regarding the Ovation Matrix. Great blog post - nice to see someone remembers the Matrix.
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