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Location: Munich/Germany | Hi everyone!
I own an Applause AA14-1 (S/N 125990), bought it used around 1990 here in Munich/Germany.
By it's overall looks and the sticker inside the body it's a typical AA14, the strange thing is, that the shape of the headstock is totally different to the one you're expecting on such a guitar.
It looks more like an Ovation headstock than an Applause's.
I can't find a picture of an AA14 with this kind of headstock anywhere, but I found this forum, so my hopes are now on you.
Anyone who knows anything about an Applause AA14 with an Ovation-like headstock? |
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Location: Ohio | Post a pic? |
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Location: Munich/Germany | hmm - if you can tell me how that's to be done (sorry, posting in forums is new to me) |
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Location: Munich/Germany | ah, I did some research - hope this works:
Guitar: 
Headstock:  " target="_blank" title="http://picturepush.com/public/5870215">">http://picturepush.com/public/5870215">
Don't be confused by the angle of the tuners, they're replaced.
I suppose there must have been a logo on the headstock, but it was scratched off by (one of) the previous owner(s). You can still see the missing varnish on the top. |
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Location: Munich/Germany | something went wrong with the pic of the guitar, so here's another try:  " target="_blank" title="http://picturepush.com/public/5870215">">http://picturepush.com/public/5870215"> |
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Location: Munich/Germany | wrong address - and another try: 
(http://picturepush.com/public/5870141) - seems that the .</td></tr><tr><td class='messagefooter' style='height:20px'> </td><td nowrap class='messagefooter'><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%'><tr><td nowrap></td><td align='right'> <a href='#top'><img src='/megabbs/templates/ovationfanclub/images/common/localized/message-top.gif' alt='Top of the page' border='0'></a> <a href='#bottom'><img src='/megabbs/templates/ovationfanclub/images/common/localized/message-bottom.gif' alt='Bottom of the page' border='0'></a> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan='2' class='messagecellspacer'> </td></tr><tr><td class='messageheader'><a href='/megabbs/view-profile.asp?action=view&uid=3244'>Mark in Boise</a><br/><img src='/megabbs/images/spacer.gif' height='1' width='120' alt=''></td><td class='messageheader' nowrap width='100%'><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%'><tr><td><a name='M1408'></a><img src='/megabbs/templates/ovationfanclub/images/common/nav-messages.gif' alt=''> <span class='smalltext'><b>Posted</b> 2011-06-13 1:55 PM (#1408 - in reply to #1402) <br/><b>Subject:</b> Re: Applause AA14 with different headstock</span></td><td align='right' class='smalltext' nowrap></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' height='150' class='messagemiddle'><span class='smalltext'><br/><br/><b>Joined:</b><br>March 2005<br/>Posts: 12750<br/><br/>Location: Boise, Idaho</span></td><td valign='top' class='messagemiddle'>That looks like a headstock from a Matrix. Is the back of the neck urelite? <b></b>(Plastic that looks like wood<b></b>). If so, it may be a Matrix neck bolted to an Applause bowl, or possibly they switched the early Applause headstocks to the Matrix style in the late 70s or early 80s.</td></tr><tr><td class='messagefooter' style='height:20px'> </td><td nowrap class='messagefooter'><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%'><tr><td nowrap></td><td align='right'> <a href='#top'><img src='/megabbs/templates/ovationfanclub/images/common/localized/message-top.gif' alt='Top of the page' border='0'></a> <a href='#bottom'><img src='/megabbs/templates/ovationfanclub/images/common/localized/message-bottom.gif' alt='Bottom of the page' border='0'></a> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan='2' class='messagecellspacer'> </td></tr><tr><td class='messageheader'><a href='/megabbs/view-profile.asp?action=view&uid=8767'>ebut</a><br/><img src='/megabbs/images/spacer.gif' height='1' width='120' alt=''></td><td class='messageheader' nowrap width='100%'><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%'><tr><td><a name='M1409'></a><img src='/megabbs/templates/ovationfanclub/images/common/nav-messages.gif' alt=''> <span class='smalltext'><b>Posted</b> 2011-06-13 5:47 PM (#1409 - in reply to #1402) <br/><b>Subject:</b> Re: Applause AA14 with different headstock</span></td><td align='right' class='smalltext' nowrap></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td valign='top' height='150' class='messagemiddle'><span class='smalltext'><br/><br/><b>Joined:</b><br>June 2011<br/>Posts: 7<br/><br/>Location: Munich/Germany</span></td><td valign='top' class='messagemiddle'>Hi Mark! <br/>
Thanks a lot for your input. The back of the neck is exactly as you say: wooden looking plastic. I got a plastic case with the guitar that has ) (I'm not an Ovation specialist, I must admit), but now I have something to google about. If it's tinkered, as you assume, then the work was done quite properly. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't know if new members can use the search function on this site. Try it by searching "Matrix" and you'll find several discussions. You could also look up the model in the reference section of this site and find out when they were made. |
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Location: Indiana | Matrix Catalog from Jérômes archive. |
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Location: Scotland | That is a Matrix headstock for sure. And it has a rosewood rather than an aluminium fingerboard, so it's a later example. What's with the tape over the logo? |
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Location: Munich/Germany | Hi!
Thank you all for your responses, that's really fantastic!
@standing: you caused me to try again finding out how to post a picture - I think I got it now (see below).
@Jonmark: looking through the various Matrix brochures on Jerome's site, I found out, that the Applause AA14-1 looks quite similar to the Matrix 1637-1 except from the missing pickguard and the soundhole binding. By considering this, the body of my guitar is definitely an AA14. So it becomes more and more likely that Mark is right, and somebody has tinkered a Matrix neck to an Applause body.
@Paul: that's not a tape over the logo, but rather, as I already wrote, somebody scratched the logo off, and what you see is the remaining hole in the top layer of the varnish.
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Applause AA14 with different headstock
