Dithering, ish

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So I’ve got this old Epiphone I found under a house the other week. A g310, so bolt on.
Body and shit is all there and looks good - aside from the wiring cuz it’s all parts bin and my iron is pretty had it - but.
The neck on it is a proper fucken banana.

I’ve loosened the truss right off to see what it does.
Is this sorta thing curable (for a fly by the seat of my pants type hack) or just get rid of the thing?
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I think, fully sorted, one of those bad boys would fetch almost $100.




























Probably bin it.
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Post by NippleWrestler »

Anything is fixable, it's a question if it being cost effective. You can probably score a neck off eBay or somewhere that would fit. Or build one, it's not that difficult.

It might all be too hard basket though. Depends what you want to put in, and what you want out of it.

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Think you blokes are right, lol
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Banana which way?
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Most of them.
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1) clamp to straight edge, put in warm place

2) wait 1 year

3) unclamp

4) set on fire

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Why don’t I just go straight to point 4?
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Put it back under the house. Probably be an interesting conversation starter with potential buyers when you go to sell, the look on their faces when they realise the patio has been dug up a few times

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Single coil wrote:Why don’t I just go straight to point 4?
Because I want to find out if it works.

For anyone.

Ever.

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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Put it back under the house. Probably be an interesting conversation starter with potential buyers when you go to sell, the look on their faces when they realise the patio has been dug up a few times
Fucking lol. I would but it wasn’t my house.
JHorner wrote:Because I want to find out if it works.

For anyone.

Ever.
Hmm. Ok.
It’s about as twisted as my sense of humour so I’m unsure if it’ll straighten. Worth a punt.
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KILL IT.
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Use it to recreate this photo.

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give it to me to practice trying to fix this sort of thing :idea:
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willow13 wrote:give it to me to practice trying to fix this sort of thing :idea:
Yeah righto, you can have the neck.
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