12 strings of xmas
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:19 am
Some of you might have seen this over on Reranch. I was looking at the gallery (for Mo Rawka blue examples) and opened the auction page.
Cheap and broekn is my siren song, so I didn't blink. I am going to start by assembling it to see if the head fix is okay. I may try to match the Ferrari red or use superglue and clear coats. If it's stable, why fix it? There is no good reason on god's soiled earth to mess with a shiny all-over paintjob. If I were sure to keep it I would leave it cracked--at least for a while. But Rick owners aren't big on the relic look. To sell it, I would have to make it look pretty clean.
If it's stable, one approach would be to sand the face and use epoxy. A guy at frets.com fixes Martins by putting veneer over the face--and that's without the benefit of paint. Doing that would cover the scar give it some slight structural benefit, if only from the glue and surface tension. Only if it were FUBAR, could I see re-breaking it or making a clean cut and replacing the maple. That's the nuclear option with all those tuners jutting out. It like like a decent paintjob, except that they painted the truss rods. I can shine those up and be done. I can't quite tell if the guts are all there. I have been through this drill with a Rick before so I still have photos of what the solders look like.
I don't even know if a guy needs one electric 12 string, let alone this and the Fender. But look at it. It's RED as hell.
Cheap and broekn is my siren song, so I didn't blink. I am going to start by assembling it to see if the head fix is okay. I may try to match the Ferrari red or use superglue and clear coats. If it's stable, why fix it? There is no good reason on god's soiled earth to mess with a shiny all-over paintjob. If I were sure to keep it I would leave it cracked--at least for a while. But Rick owners aren't big on the relic look. To sell it, I would have to make it look pretty clean.
If it's stable, one approach would be to sand the face and use epoxy. A guy at frets.com fixes Martins by putting veneer over the face--and that's without the benefit of paint. Doing that would cover the scar give it some slight structural benefit, if only from the glue and surface tension. Only if it were FUBAR, could I see re-breaking it or making a clean cut and replacing the maple. That's the nuclear option with all those tuners jutting out. It like like a decent paintjob, except that they painted the truss rods. I can shine those up and be done. I can't quite tell if the guts are all there. I have been through this drill with a Rick before so I still have photos of what the solders look like.
I don't even know if a guy needs one electric 12 string, let alone this and the Fender. But look at it. It's RED as hell.