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Filling some cracks with ca on the top . Have the back to do as well . Then figure out what someone was thinking when they glued that plywood in at the neck . Friends guitar he saved from a fire at a old house . His son wants to play it .

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Might check to be sure the neck block is securely glued in.
Those models were notorious for coming loose.
The block was flat, but the back is curved.....

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Thanks Chris , I will check that !

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Big:
Have you considered dumping the hardware in the bridge? Should make guitar more responsive and a wider saddle would be a help when setting up the intonation.
Tom

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I like that Idea ... I will see how things go, I have been so freekin busy lately I havent had any shop time in almost two weeks . Thanks for the idea

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Working on the neck . Drilled out the glue that had been put in and realized they didnt take the broke screw out , just covered it with glue Sooooooooo Now its drilled and I will be insetting these threaded inserts

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Stuff like that sure can take the fun out of it in a hurry.

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Ok Dumb Question here probably , But I dont know the answer .

12 string , zero fret epi repair . Is the scale measured from the 0 fret to the 12th or the nut ? 0 fret is almost 3/16 from nut to center of the fret .. If i measure it that way its very close , if I measure it from the nut... well not so much ... Logic says it should be from 0 fret to twelfth fret and twelfth to bridge saddle ..

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

You had it right... scale is from zero fret to saddle on guitars with one. [length of the vibrating string].
M

Put a little more time in on the 12 string , I have the neck mounted and all the cracks filled . I repaired the area around the sound hole with a custom pick guard . and buffed it out a bit . The new saddle has to be made and she needs strung up . Jeremy wanted a playable 12 string and thats about what he should have.

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Soon be playing!

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The donut around the soundhole looks weird. Why did you do that?

Go back and look at the pix. Some idiot put a chunk of plywood in there when the guitar started folding up. Epiphones did this quite frequently.

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Speaking only as a person that is often called upon to repair an instrument that was previously repaired, I wouldn't be so quick to call the person that put the plywood in an idiot. Personally, I like the look of the black ring that was put around the sound hole however, I could imagine a future conversation where someone is explaining to another someone how some...idiot put a big black doughnut on a guitar...

Edyted to feeks spellings airer.

I'm fully confident that someone will some day call my repairs the work of an idiot. I know I've fixed other people's repairs, the whole time saying, "what were they thinking?" I've also looked back on a few of my own and said, "what was I thinking?"

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Doing this for a friend who really does not want to spend much money, and wants a 12 string for his son to play . Seemed simplier than trying to router out for new rosette .

I am Certain that my work will be called into question some day, heck I call it into question now LOL

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Been there myself. Sometimes you can only do what the client can pay for.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

Pay ???? You get PAID ??

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

I think in the early 80's I remember seeing many of this model collapse at the sound hole and I could never come up with a repair that worked. The bridges came up also. Good luck and I hope you have success.
Michael

I used to take the back off and make all the repairs and mods to make things fit.
Then they would last.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

Strung up the 12 string tonight , will be working on the tuning and some minor saddle work this week "string heights"

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Well the Epiphone 12 string is done and has been played a bit . It sounds really good for what is here . The cracks are not extremely visable , and buffed out to a satin finish .

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

The black "rosette" gives a look like an Applause guitar, but other than that - it looks awesome.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince