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  2. Ovation Guitar Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1967–1968, Ovation introduced its Electric Storm Series of semi-hollow archtop guitars and basses. The pickups for these instruments were manufactured by Schaller based in Germany. Production stopped in 1969. [4] In 1972, Ovation introduced one of the first production solid-body electric-guitars with active electronics, the Ovation ...

  3. Rickenbacker 325 - Wikipedia

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    Production models had a 20 + 3 ⁄ 4-inch (530 mm) short scale, dot fretboard inlays, and a small (12 + 3 ⁄ 4-inch-wide [320 mm]) body. The body is unbound, semi-hollow, with an angled sound hole, and boasts "crescent moon"-style cutaways. These instruments gained prominence due to John Lennon's use of a 325 during the early years of The ...

  4. Machine press - Wikipedia

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    A press brake is a special type of machine press that bends sheet metal into shape. A good example of the type of work a press brake can do is the back-plate of a computer case. Other examples include brackets, frame pieces and electronic enclosures. Some press brakes have CNC controls and can form parts with accuracy to a fraction of a ...

  5. Dead-blow hammer - Wikipedia

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    Some dead-blow hammers have replaceable striking faces, attached by screwing or pressing them into place on the main body of the hammer. These replaceable faces (or “inserts”) not only can extend the life of the tool, they can be hardness matched to the surface being struck, minimizing damage while allowing optimal energy transfer on impact.

  6. Semi-acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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    A Gibson ES-150 a hollow-body guitar with a pair of F-holes visible. A semi-acoustic guitar, also known as a hollow-body electric guitar, is a type of electric guitar designed to be played with a guitar amplifier featuring a fully or partly hollow body and at least one electromagnetic pickup. [1]

  7. Threaded insert - Wikipedia

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    TIME-SERT insert. A threaded insert, also known as a threaded bushing, is a fastener element that is inserted into an object to add a threaded hole. [1] They may be used to repair a stripped threaded hole, provide a durable threaded hole in a soft material, place a thread on a material too thin to accept it, mold or cast threads into a work piece thereby eliminating a machining operation, or ...

  8. Merle Travis - Wikipedia

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    He was lead guitarist in Thompson's Brazos Valley Boys during the time when Billboard magazine rated them the number one Country Western band for 14 years in a row. (Thompson, who could pick Travis-style, even had Gibson design him a Super 400 hollow body electric guitar identical to the one Travis began using in 1952.) Travis continued ...

  9. Blisk - Wikipedia

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    Repair of blisk components is complex and first requires an accurate 3D representation of the component. The quickest way to do this is by 3D scanning the product. [ 10 ] After the part is scanned, an STL file (stereolithograph) can be passed to a CNC code generating software such as NX CAM .