Ovation Folklore Deluxe |
The Ovation
Folklore Deluxe, model FD-14, is perhaps the best sounding acoustic
guitar that New Hartford has ever produced. That's a bold
statement to be sure. But I've played this wonderful limited
edition next to Shiny Bowls, Adamas, Elites, and Custom Legend and each
time I come away amazed. In 2003 the boys at Ovation set out to
build an acoustic players guitar modeled after the original Josh White
(and later the Folklore). What resulted was a limited run of 50
instruments from a very different mold. The body is a deep bowl,
non-cutaway trimmed in inlaid walnut and tortoise shell. The sound
hole rosette is also of a beautiful hand laid walnut and tortoise
shell. The 12 fret neck is a slightly narrower version of the
original (1-3/4"), yet still wider than the standard steel string
guitars. The soundboard is a satin finished cedar, which has an
amazing woody mellowness to it. Topping it off is a wonderful
slotted headstock, which I've had gloss finished and adorned with the
Josh White signature in honor of the original. A fixed EQ on-board
pre-amp feeds the direct out to the endpin jack. Click
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