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| Yesterday, I found this forum while looking for parts for my guitar.
I bought this old guitar at a Pawnshop. I paid $150.00 for it and the nice tan hard-shell case. The frets were all dented up with deep dents. Looks like someone took an electric sander to the fingerboard. I pulled out the frets and checked the fingerboard. It has low spots in it and is very thin in some places, so re-fretting that fingerboard is out of the question. It will never be original, so I might as well turn it into something. The body and neck still looks great.
I have selected a 24.75 inch 22 fret maple fingerboard. I have a couple of guitars with 24 frets and don't use those extra frets enough to need them. I think that will install 3 pickups in it and place the input jack on the lower side bottom. I really think that it is worth saving and should be really nice when I am finished. Let me know what you think.
Below are two photos. One is a Photoshop mock-up of how it will look when finished with the maple neck and pickups. The other photo is how it looks right now, pretty pitiful indeed.
http://www.twangerguitars.com/bread1.jpg
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Welcome. What not just get a new neck and maybe a pickguard? I think a few may be around. Although I must say, the 3-pickup mockup is pretty cool. You are free to move about the cabin. (Post the general forums). |
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| Cool!
The actual neck is good and it has the Ovation Logo. I want to put EVO Gold Jumbo Frets on it. I have re-fretted a bunch of guitars with EVO and love it. Since I have never seen one with a maple fingerboard, I want to do it. I will make a pick-guard, not sure what color, probably black again. Places like Vietnam and Africa has some cool looking handmade inlay maple fingerboards with tribal designs. I can't find any really fancy ones like that from USA guitar companies online, so I might have to order one from one of those countries. |
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Old Sick Breadwinner Limited
