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Steve Bolt's trashed Takamine. Complements of UPS ground. Totaled and no hope!
Or is there?
I had to glue patches to the top in order to hold it together for the picture. It will need a new top for sure!
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Before removing, the binding on the back must be routed off. |
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I heated up the back joint with my grandmother's iron skillet. Primitive, but it worked! |
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The back was lifted off clean.
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I used the same technique to remove the fingerboard. You can see the knife underneath the skillet working slowly to the first fret. |
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Success!
It has a primitive non ajustable truss rod! |
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Time to take the neck off, enter nightmare.
I tried everything. Finally I threw it in the bathtub in scalding hot water! |
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No wonder!
After sawing off the neck block I noticed the neck was attached using dowels. When I design a guitar the repair man is always taken into consideration. Why? Because it's me!
You can see for yourself, there's no way to remove the neck without disassembling everything.
Total nonsense!
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I'm on top now! The dowels, all five of them are history. |
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I win! |