Crispy Cherry

[SamanthaCay]

Here's what I'm trying today..

Neck clamped into relief and an iron to heat. It takes patience, but I've fixed a good number of necks this way so it's where I'll start. I think in the case of this one more heat will probably be required as I'm contending with the glue between the laminate and not just the fingerboard.
Cool Pusheen is there for safety to make sure we don't get too hot.

 

[SamanthaCay]

While I'm heating a different area I decided to scrape some of the silver paint off the original inlays. Lol I wonder if this was the same person that took a forstner to it.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

So do you mean the lams are horizontal, parallel to the FB whereas the Kubickis were perpendicular? The pic Samantha posted looks perpendicular. Am I missing something?

I could have been more clear, sorry. By other way around I meant that Framus and some of the Japanese manufacturers did it before Phillip Kubicki had the Factor basses on the market.

 

[Snert]

I could have been more clear, sorry. By other way around I meant that Framus and some of the Japanese manufacturers did it before Phillip Kubicki had the Factor basses on the market.

Thanks for clarifying. Makes sense.

 

[SamanthaCay]

Decided to help it out a little heating the back side. Check out that red glow, constant movement is key.

 

[Beej]

This is going to be fun to watch, I love to restore stuff of any kind. I wish I'd come across something like this more frequently but alas, most of my restoration energy goes into furniture these days.

Side note, Pusheen guards the Lego in our house.

 

[SamanthaCay]

This is going to be fun to watch, I love to restore stuff of any kind. I wish I'd come across something like this more frequently but alas, most of my restoration energy goes into furniture these days.

Side note, Pusheen guards the Lego in our house.

Watching furniture restoration on YouTube is one of my faves. It's weird how relaxing it is to watch someone else go through a ton of work on something.

 

[SamanthaCay]

Alright after an hour to cool here's what we got.

Little more that what I needed! I also still have a hump at the end so im heating it back up atm. This may take few goes but I think it might just work.

 

[SamanthaCay]

This clamping gets pretty interesting. I've got one clamp putting pressure on the center of the hump and another at the end to pull a little relief out. Like before I've hit the backside with the heat gun as well.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Every time I see that neck pickup “route” I flash back to some of my own “Why would someone do this to a poor, helpless instrument?!?” moments.

 

[SamanthaCay]

The fruits of yesterday's labor. It's at a point now where I can level the board and refret.
Today,

It seems odd to me that framus used a scarf on a laminate neck but here it is in all it's partially open/melted state.

This took a few deep breaths, a little heat gun and some razors. I want to slavage everything so this rosewood veneer will go back after I redo the scarf joint.

I glued the pieces on the nut side of the joint back on as I went using super glue just to help keep track, and make this less puzzle like. Finally I put the remaining veneer under a heavy book to keep it relatively flat.

 

[SamanthaCay]

Every time I see that neck pickup “route” I flash back to some of my own “Why would someone do this to a poor, helpless instrument?!?” moments.

It is triggering lol, but it will feel great to repair.

 

[Snert]

heavy book

LOL.

I'm learning a lot here thank you, and I hope you leave it in it's crispy state once it's to player standard.

 

[SamanthaCay]

LOL.

I'm learning a lot here thank you, and I hope you leave it in it's crispy state once it's to player standard.

It will stay with it's current aesthetic for sure. The idea is to preserve as much as possible while making it play and sound great.

 

[SamanthaCay]

And this just happened!

Just heated it all around for a couple minutes and a with a hair of help from a razor *pop* I gotta admit this part makes me a little queezy in the moment.

You can see where someone tried to fix this with epoxy that was barely sleeping in. I'll get this cleaned up and flat, than glue.

 

[JIO]

And this just happened!
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Just heated it all around for a couple minutes and a with a hair of help from a razor *pop* I gotta admit this part makes me a little queezy in the moment.
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You can see where someone tried to fix this with epoxy that was barely sleeping in. I'll get this cleaned up and flat, than glue.

Part of restoring these tortured beasts is saving/delivering them from their past abuses and making them whole again - even a deceased organic thing like wood must have a cosmic reference to being rejuvenated and if so it will reward you with its sonic gifts!

 

[Reedt2000]

I dig the idea of preserving it's currently state aestheticly, what about the electronics? Did it come with any? Gonna stay period? Hot rodded?

 

[SamanthaCay]

I dig the idea of preserving it's currently state aestheticly, what about the electronics? Did it come with any? Gonna stay period? Hot rodded?

Definitely hot rodded I talked about it few posts back.

Anyway it's still up to some conjecture ie I'm still deciding, but the outline I have is a big humbucker in the neck and something that compliments it in the bridge. Eb3 style be it something a little more unique. Edit: to say it came with a pair of strap buttons lol.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

And this just happened!
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Just heated it all around for a couple minutes and a with a hair of help from a razor *pop* I gotta admit this part makes me a little queezy in the moment.
View attachment 4669944
You can see where someone tried to fix this with epoxy that was barely sleeping in. I'll get this cleaned up and flat, than glue.

As Jerry Rosa has said in a few of his repair vids, “Gotta make it look worse before it looks better.”

 

[JIO]

Definitely hot rodded I talked about it few posts back.

Anyway it's still up to some conjecture ie I'm still deciding, but the outline I have is a big humbucker in the neck and something that compliments it in the bridge. Eb3 style be it something a little more unique. Edit: to say it came with a pair of strap buttons lol.

I have a more recent Epi EB-0 side-winder hum-bucker w/o the chrome cover (just the pu) if you want it. (free) Let me know. I used the cover for a theatrical clone of Mile Watts "Little Baby" SG style Gibson bass that was stollen while on tour w/Iggy Pop, now hanging on the wall at Winters Tavern in Pacifica w/Watts siggy on it. Other two pu's are wooden dummies.