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I need to replace a damaged rosette for my Ovation Ultra. The original rosette not a decal or inlay, it is plastic and was glued on around the sound hole. It has kind of a lip on the inside that drops into the sound hole about 1/8" and the ring is a smidge over 1" wide. I'm waiting to hear from Ovation but my local music store and another luthier both tell me they probably can't help me anyway.

I reckon my options are to find a new one through this forum or some other, or create something new out of wood that will roughly match the original in dimensions. I probably lack the skill to do a nice job so I am hoping someone here can help me find a replacement or suggest something else.

Many thanks ..

Andrew

I've made purfling rings out of wood. If you have a router and a circle cutting jig it is not too difficult. You can make a circle cutting jig fairly easily if you don't have one. One of the simplest jigs is a replacement sub-base with holes drilled in it at set distances from the router bit to accept a dowel mounted in the center of the circle you wish to cut out. You can make a purfling ring with a lip similar to excavating for a rosette and soundhole and then cutting the circle out of the work piece. For the soundhole rout, I rout almost, but not quite through the work piece and when done routing cut it out with a razor knife.

P.S. - If you can find a scrap of corian you could rout one out of that material and possibly have one more similar to the original.

You need one of these? What's the inside diameter of the soundhole? I saw a gazillion Asian replacements on Ebay but this is "Genuine" Ovation...

Joshua Levin-Epstein wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 1:46 pm You need one of these?

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What's the inside diameter of the soundhole? I saw a gazillion Asian replacements on Ebay but this is "Genuine" Ovation...

That is exactly what I need!

The sound hole is cut kinda roughly but the inside diameter of the ring is 4" and the outside diameter is 6-1/8" (pretty close). Where do I find such a thing? I didn't come a cross anything on Ebay.

Thanks ... this is encouraging.

Andrew

Clay Schaeffer wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 10:11 am P.S. - If you can find a scrap of corian you could rout one out of that material and possibly have one more similar to the original.

Thanks for your suggestions. I had never heard of corian! I'm hoping i won't have to make the piece but it sounds like a possibility.

Andrew

Google "Replacement Rosette for Ovation guitar".

I saw a thread on an "Ovation Lovers" forum where someone had indeed gotten a replacement from Ovation. This took place in 2017 so it might still be possible.

http://ovationfanclub.com/megabbs/forum ... ?tid=48026

Find out what Ovation wants for something like this, including shipping. PM me if you're interested .