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Spruce Clef Top Studies - Custom Legend 'A' Bracing Top Sinking Issue

1974 US 2 pages

These are internal Ovation company documents from 1974, consisting of a memorandum from J. Rickard to C.H. Kaman and a hand-drawn technical sketch dated August 12, 1974. The memo discusses a customer's returned 1617-4 acoustic electric Custom Legend guitar with a sinking top near the bridge, identified as coming from the first production lot of 'A' bracing guitars. The second page contains a sketch outlining a proposed fix for the 'cave' issue on the Custom Legend, with dimensions noted, from a conference involving CHK, RD, and JR.

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