Holy moley, the back and sides are real, solid wood, and all that striped magic . . . maple(? I think??!?)?
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my dream was to match the Revenant, my 6 string, but the Revenant is all one sort of grain on the inside and only the stripes on the outside. Only the top is real wood on the 6 string.
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When I thought I was putting a bolt on block inside, I took a few pics to see what was inside, I wasn’t looking for grain, but I just looked at the pics and the stripes are there! The pic is not great, but I think you can see it.
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Now I suppose I’m in the market for a 6 string to match my 12 string! LOL
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Plus it explains why this one hasn’t got cracks and splits all around like the rest of the Framus’ that age do, it’s proper wood!
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Wow, great find, pressure’s on to make it work.
😀💜💜💜
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I had to double check for the millionth time inside the Revenant, in case I’d missed it, and for a second I thought maybe I was wrong - but then I saw and remembered that you can see on the inside a line down the length of the back with one sort of grain on one side and a whole other piece of veneer on the other. LOL. Definitely composite.
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The 00-15M is real wood, but it’s new and it was expensive. Real wood from the ‘60s, I am so chuffed! Gonna kill me if I can’t make it work now.
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EDIT TO ADD: I guess the takeaway from today’s realization about the project guitar is if you see an old Framus acoustic and the sides aren’t split, grab it 😀💜
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As soon as I changed the plan, I got onto Stew Mac and ordered a new fretboard, fretwire, inlay dots, side dots and a new roll of 220 grit sandpaper.
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And I was hoping this project would keep me busy so I paid for International Express Three Day shipping and it was a day before it shipped and since then it’s said seven days, theoretically on Tuesday. Seven seems like a long three, but I just hope that number is right!
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So it means this project is happening sort of backwards, I’m doing my thing with the saddle and the pick guard and I changed the ferrules.
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I hope that will make the gonzo reset less daunting, knowing that when I reach the end of that long process there won’t still be a bunch of other jobs waiting.
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Well, a smaller bunch.
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I have an old plastic nut from one of the student necks, ah, sorry, that was part of the other 12 string too, same as the ferrules, and that’s what I plan to set it up with, the string width is much less, and I don’t feel competent to wing a new 12 string one, that’s going to be my string width. I’d love a proper bone one, hopefully later.
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The saddle, I have a bone one with six notches in it I made for something else, I don’t recall what, I’m going to try to set it up with that, and there’s two problems with it, the notches may not work and the whole saddle may not be tall enough.
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I probably should have bought new blanks, but it ain’t free and like I said, I’m not really up to carving them myself. I’ll have to see how things go, figure this out later. I’d hate to pay to farm it out. I hope the old nut works, I worry that the project will stall if I have to order those things. I’m also almost out of the horrible hide glue and best case scenario I’ll have to drive to a bigger town to find some.
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Tomorrow there is still some
detail I can add in the slot for the saddle and I can cut out the new pick guard from a few layers of maple veneer glued together tonight (the old plastic one is warped). Then I can lacquer the bottom of it and paint the top of it black, but basically I’ll be waiting for that fretboard. 🧐🎸
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UPDATE: the tracking was wrong, it’s coming now, three days after all!
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So I’ll have to edit this one out of my super villain back story 😀
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I mean, can anyone tell me what that wood is called? Is it, “Striped Maple?”
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I’m not having much luck on the ol’ search engine.
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so there’s some width to come off yet, but I took the corners off at the skinny end and gave the new top fretboard its basic shape now I’ve glued it on for the first time and tomorrow I’ll put the “e”strings on it and mark it for its eventual, final width and shape.
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Then it’s sand it down to that size and shape, that’ll take a minute, means a fair amount of wood off the sides of the whole neck.
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Then it’s fret it out.
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THEN it’s adjusting the shape of the original fretboard under the new one until it’s perfect. I’m already a lot further along than I thought, but that could still take all summer. 🥹🎶💜
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OK, so that break near the headstock maybe wasn’t fixed, or I broke it again. I put some strings on it to set my width and shape of the new fretboard and then I tuned up to see how far it would bend and that break opened right up!
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I tried to get some hot water to it partly to wash away any soluble glue but also to open the pores of the wood and glued it again, but honestly all you can do there is glue and I don’t see how it’s ever enough. I’ll be shocked if it stays put.
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Apparently they do sometimes though?
😬🫣
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just to remind you who you’re dealing with: I really think it needs some staples 😠🧐
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ah, I’ve a devil of a choice now, keep shaping this fretboard, do the next thing, finish the job when the neck may just snap off again, or tune it up again now, snap it again now?
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I don’t see anything on the wood glue bottle about curing, just clamp for 25 minutes, and I had gotten it all wet first so I left the clamps on overnight JIC, do I test it now or is it too soon?
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Is there a #Luthier in the house?
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I love you guys but nobody answers goddam questions. 😠
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I decided that what I needed to do beside gluing the break was making it strong as I can from the other side, the fretboard side, meaning take not another millimetre off of the fretboard at that end and attaching the new one as solidly as possible.
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Plus I decided that’s structural, and I ought to finsh that first, before I start worrying about shape - plus I realized it’s a new fretboard, no frets yet, so no reason it’s the under piece that has to be shaped.
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So I can go back to a normal sequence, shape the final
top fretboard instead. If I sand through the fret slots, I have a fret saw, I can just cut them again.
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I took it off, one time only, took the peak off the under piece one last time and glued the new one on again, and was not miserly with the glue, that ought to be permanent.
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Thanks for nuthin’ kids 😀
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