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Thunderbird Club

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Cuzzie said:
Really cool suggestion, only part of it is lifting. I had thought about lifting the whole thing off to make a really good new glue join but those screw in bolts for the bridge bolt the top piece down if I am correct?

It’s a bit cracked by them and I think the wood will split.
I was going to drip some glue into the cracks and then clamp the hell out of it.
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Looks like you were able to get the raised center section off, more or less. Now its just a matter of carefully cleaning up any center section wood that stuck to the body, filling any significant body voids with wood putty, block sanding it flat and installing whatever material raised top you want.

One of the newer club members has a black TBird with a stained wood center section that looks awesome, I think there's a picture of it about a dozen pages back. IIRC he got that look by painting the wings of a stained bird black and leaving the center block stained. It's a different way of getting the same look on a bird that has a solid center block vs the glued on raised center block. Very cool and unique look.
 
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Where’s the K girl? Got some bling for her.

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