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Ovation Adamas® 6-String In more recent times, exotic woods are becoming endangered species... As complaints and reports pile on each other, guitar manufacturers have resorted to alternative types of wood. The Ovation company on the other hand experimented with a completely new approach. The company's top-of-the-line acoustic guitar, the Ovation Adamas, was introduced in 1975. It was made almost entirely of synthetic materials. It's bowl shaped body was made out of molded fiberglass material; it's top out of carbon fibers and birch veneers. And check this out- instead of having one large sound hole, the Adamas has 22 small sound holes of various sizes on its upper bout. (this may be quite hard to see). A little about the Ovation company. It started in the mid 1960's and was founded by Charles Kaman, who was not only a guitarist but an aerospace engineer as well. Kaman felt that the traditional wooded guitar was heading nowhere, and that only space-age materials could be a good sound generator. Needless to say, he and his engineers set out to apply what they had learned in the aerospace industry onto the guitar. Even thought the Ovation guitar was revolutionary and reasonably strange, it enjoyed massive success.