Epoxied in Fret, quote from Carter's book on the big O ???

Abendicum Posted 2004-12-24 7:37 AM (#168787) Subject: Epoxied in Fret, quote from Carter's book on the big O ??? Joined: June 2004 Posts: 271 Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida In the History of the Ovation Guitar by Walter Carter, I quote from page 40, top right: Some production problems lingered on for years. "We had alot of trouble doing good fret work" (Jim) Rickard said. All the frets came up on the ends. So we developed a system of epoxying the frets in. We didn't tell people, because can you imagine any body gluing the frets in? If you heat them up they come right out. But we went through this process, which made the guitars very playable." Gluing in frets is common practice today with a super glue type product, but it is normally NOT used in production, but in repairs and custom fretwork. Currently I believe the Applause, Celebrity's and Hartford born O's DO NOT use any glued in frets... Anyone know when and which Guitars were glued in, as referenced in the above quote??? Ab Beal Posted 2004-12-24 8:28 AM (#168788 - in reply to #168787) Subject: Re: Epoxied in Fret, quote from Carter's book on the big O ??? Joined: January 2002 Posts: 14127 Location: 6 String Ranch All US made guitars Abendicum Posted 2004-12-24 9:30 AM (#168789 - in reply to #168787) Subject: Re: Epoxied in Fret, quote from Carter's book on the big O ??? Joined: June 2004 Posts: 271 Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida WOW, thanks... Phil Wong Posted 2004-12-24 10:22 AM (#168790 - in reply to #168787) Subject: Re: Epoxied in Fret, quote from Carter's book on the big O ??? Joined: June 2003 Posts: 1792 Location: Rego Park, NY, Abendicum, Go to my photo gallery. I have pictures of the glue being applied to the fret board before the frets are installed.