depressed and terrified of the future, I am going to try to give my brain a problem it can work on besides that, and if the guitar is right, that will be my brain’s hamster wheel this summer, and it will take most of my cognitive resources to do it, it’s sort of impossible. There’s a reason they keep making new guitars, they mostly die rather than become beautiful vintage things, and if they’re not dead, some real luthier restores them.
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(With a full size jointed neck and I assume they have to take the top off to do it? I’m trying to avoid that, I wouldn’t know how and I don’t want to practice on this guitar and wreck it. Also I need a thinner neck and I have this idea that the Texan ply necks are small but still strong, still able to resist the forever pull of the strings).
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Again, if they’re alive, the real doctors may save them, in approved ways. I am a body snatcher, I get them on their way to the cemetery and do profane experiments with them, playing God, trying to recreate life, being Dr. Frankenguitar.
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Twice I have put an old Texan neck mounting block in by cutting it in half horizontally and putting it back together inside with glue. One, the composite 12 string, is maybe three years old and still OK, the other one was the Revenant’s fourth repair and fourth life, and a short one, the old block crumbled.
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I’ll use a new block of maple, like I’ve done for the Revenant’s fifth and current life, but somehow through the sound hole, whereas the Revenant had been opened wide at the neck in the past and I could access a lot more. And again, somehow around the interior half of the old dovetail joint.
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I’m trying to imagine ways to get a 3D image of the interior, sculptung clay, 3D scanning and printing, something.
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This morning I thought about how long a process it was to set the neck angle right on the Revenant, and how difficult that will be with twice the strings, and I was briefly overwhelmed. Not looking forward to that at all. If I ever get there.
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I mean, I wasn’t shopping for a 12 string, I have enough trouble with six strings, I’m just shopping for exactly this one, because I’ll have a set. 👍
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SOOO problematic. I’m on the wheel already, the thing is still overseas, I think. 💜
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