![]() ![]() Return WindowThis product can be returned within 7 days of receipt. Learn about why tax is required in this region. Tax Policies CO, US 4.8% United States - WA Tax is calculated at checkout. To negotiate shipping rates to other locations, please send me a message. I will ship with tracking to the listed regions. Ships from Denver, CO, United States to: Continental U.S. Product Specs Condition: Excellent (Used) Brand Applause Model AE-28 Finish Red Categories Built-in Electronics Made In China About The Seller Other than that, this thing is a great guitar for the money! Very easy to play and a great beginner to intermediate player! Everything pictured is ready to be professionally packed and shipped. The headstock has some dings here and there (see pic). The frets themselves look good showing some scuffs but nothing too severe. The action is nice and low making it easy to get anywhere on the fingerboard. Condition: This acoustic/electric looks good! There are a few scuffs and scratches here and there but overall its in good shape! There are some heavier scratches at the upper bout on the top of the guitar (see pic).Features: 20 Frets, White Dot Inlays, Chrome Ovation Stamped Tuners, Shallow Back.Case: NO CASE But Will Be Pro Packed and Shipped.Listed over 3 years ago by GravityMusicGear.The bit about the frets wearing quickly on the aluminum necks is spot-on. ![]() My best guess is that the aluminum necks were made only in Connecticut - if they made them in Korea, they didn't do it for long - by the mid-1980s (and maybe as early as '82/'83/'84) Applause guitars were using more traditional wood necks. ![]() Again, I had one of the aluminum-necked Applause models (AA-14) when they first came out in the late '70s (got it for Christmas in either '77 or '78), then a Celebrity, then went to Ovations for acoustics in the 80s, so I'm pretty familiar with the brand and models from the era. All AA-31s have laminated tops.Īll of this lines up with my recollections. They have 'real wood' necks and fingerboards as opposed to aluminum. There were no US made AA-31s to my knowledge. The AA-31s were made in Korea beginning about 1983. if you wanted to raise the action, Ovation and their dealers would give them to you at no charge. By removing a shim, you lowered the action at the 12th fret by 1/64. I can't recollect when Applause added 'by Ovation' to their logo.Ĭhances are that if next time you change strings you remove the saddle, there will be at least one shim underneath. About that same time, they introduced the Celebrity series priced to be between the Applause and Ovation brands. The next step was to cover the aluminum frets with nickel plating, which helped a little, but they still seemed to wear quickly.Īround 1982 or 1983, they moved production of the Applause guitars to Korea, and at some point after that, they did away with the aluminum necks. That never became a popular selling point. The original plan had been that the necks would be easily interchangeable, and that you could have the entire neck replaced for less than it would cost to replace frets on a wooden fretboard. the aluminum frets tended to wear quickly, and could not be replaced. They were introduced in 1976 or 1977, and were built in Connecticut. Then they molded the back of the neck out of a plastic material, and finished it to feel 'just like mahogany!' They used the same back as the Ovations, but had a laminated top (Ovations were solid), and as someone mentioned, the necks were aluminum, and the fretboard, support rod, headstock, and frets were one piece. I don't think they ever reached that goal, but I believe that they were able to build them in less than 2 1/2 hours of man-hours. The concept was to make cheaper copies of their own guitars before someone else did, and the goal was to build them with only one man-hour of labor involved. The early Applause guitars did not say Ovation on them, because the plan was to sell them through a distributor rather than the Ovation sales force. ![]()
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