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pasquale · June 30th, 2010, 01:18 PM

If there was ivory my piano buddy would have saved it. He tends to save "the action" on pianos if it is nice. I had never thought about that before and it is a jamming idea, he has file cabinets full of old ivory and ebony, could use the ebony for a nut if I was that way inclined too. Since my cousin lives out in the country and I am in the city we are going to be buying most of the parts so when we can squeeze in a day in the shop we can see a hope of playing these things by Fall. I scored a neck on trash day a couple of weeks back, nothing amazing but it is maple and rosewood, 25.5" scale, with enough headstock to get bandsawed into a tele style, and it was FREE. That said at some point I will be diving in and attempting to make my own neck, and when I do I am raiding that ivory cache. Even as I get better at things I still feel like I am attempting more than achieving, but you learn more from getting it wrong than getting it right in life and guitars.

June 30th, 2010, 01:18 PM	#11 (permalink)
pasquale Tele-Meister Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Boston, MA Age: 36 Posts: 153	ivory If there was ivory my piano buddy would have saved it. He tends to save "the action" on pianos if it is nice. I had never thought about that before and it is a jamming idea, he has file cabinets full of old ivory and ebony, could use the ebony for a nut if I was that way inclined too. Since my cousin lives out in the country and I am in the city we are going to be buying most of the parts so when we can squeeze in a day in the shop we can see a hope of playing these things by Fall. I scored a neck on trash day a couple of weeks back, nothing amazing but it is maple and rosewood, 25.5" scale, with enough headstock to get bandsawed into a tele style, and it was FREE. That said at some point I will be diving in and attempting to make my own neck, and when I do I am raiding that ivory cache. Even as I get better at things I still feel like I am attempting more than achieving, but you learn more from getting it wrong than getting it right in life and guitars.