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Originally Posted by lostpick
My tele pipe dreams took me to your idea one
day as I was thinking about how to turn old
furniture into tele bodies....imagine doing this
with an old slab of mahoghany, or walnut
off the top of a 70 year old dresser. Wood that
old sings like a marimba when you thunk it.
I will have to send you a slab....your doing
it the exact way I would have done it...
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That would be a great idea indeed. If I recall correctly, it is exactly the way Orville Gibson started his little company... by carving guitars out of old furniture.
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Originally Posted by lostpick
Would it work out if you cut the neck pocket
in the upper slab and then leave it uncut in the
middle slab?
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That would certainly work out, had I not been dumb enough to measure the neckpocket wrong... that would have saved me some serious trouble.
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Originally Posted by lostpick
MAGNIFICIENT....
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You, sir, are too kind!
(and haven't seen the mistakes and ugly spots yet...
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