From
Sam who sold me this amazing guitar:
"This
is a very rare Ovation adamas acoustic only guitar.This is a
preproduction adamas i believe to be serial # 11.There is a piece of
masking tape inside the guitar that reads G# 11 which i believe means
guitar # 11.The first 26 adamas guitars were prototypes.This is a rare
piece of Ovation adamas history built around 1974-75.This has an arched
graphite top with f-hole type soundholes.Ovation was experimenting with
sounhole configurations to see what would work best on the adamas
series.The guitar is a bit crude but playable and sounds good.As you
can see from the pics below the top is black but never finished or
painted,just raw graphite.The binding was never finished and you can
see the fiberglass and resin on the pic with the side of the guitar
.The fingerboard was not completely finished at the bottom but all
frets are there and guitar is playable.There is also an access door on
back held on by tape.The soundhole was there to acces braces and to
shave them for voicing the guitar. " |