![]() The neck pickup had a separate coil for each string wired in a humbucking configuration. The Ovation Magnum featured some fairly radical pickup designs. It might be possible to retro-fit a Bass-Mute, but the space available lloks fairly tight.ģ. Looks nothing like the real thing and doesn't have the string mute mechanism. The Eastwood simply has a generic Fender high-mass style bridge. There was also an effective built-in level-operated string mute. The Ovation Bridge was a brand new design with a massive base-plate and big chunky brass saddles. The Eastwood appears to have a standard Fender-style "bolt-on" neck with the standard chunky heel.Ģ. Finally the Ovation neck joint was glued as well as bolted (with proper bolts rather than screws - I don't know of anyone else using bolts on a wooden neck in the 70s) and the heel on the neck is the minimum you can get away with given the construction of the joint. The Eastwood is a generic maple neck - I don't know about the sound but the certainly doesn't look right it should at least have been coloured to match the body. The Ovation neck is Mahogany with graphite re-enforcement. I wouldn't expect Eastwood to be allowed to copy the iconic Ovation headstock, but they should have at least used a tapered design to match the intent of the designers for a relatively straight string pull from the nut. How does it differ from the Ovation Magnum I?ġ. The Eastwood looks too much as though it's built with mostly generic off-the-shelf parts and the impression is that it's a standard far-eastern made bass with a less than conventional body shape. #STRINGS TO FIT OVATION MAGNUM BASS FULL#The Ovation Magnum I and II were full of innovations and had obviously been designed completely fresh without blindly aping what had gone before. It looks as though it was designed by someone who once saw a blurry photo of the real thing. The rest of the bass bears as much resemblance to the original Magnum as the average early 70s Japanese instrument did to what it was supposed to be copying. It seems as though all Eastwood have really done is to copy (roughly) the outline of the body. However on closer inspection I'm less than impressed. I had heard that Eastwood were doing a version of the Breadwinner Guitar, but I had no idea that there was going to be a Magnum Bass too. I was checking the Eastwood site this morning and noticed this:
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