Nostr notes by Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama

OK, that’s all of them and they’re all smooth, I’m . . . ...

2026-10-22T03:38:43Z

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OK, that’s all of them and they’re all smooth, I’m . . . almost HAPPY, I’m so stoked 😀
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FFS.
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It took me a loooong time to think my way through that problem, I’m a little embarrassed, but I don’t care, all’s well as ends well. 😅
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The new wheels had the modern spline bore, and I filed them square to work with the original posts. 👍
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Well, the downside is that I used the wheels from the Framus Vintage set - I mean, that makes them sort of legit - but now I have to count that $200 in the cost. 🙄
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The new wheels are steel, with flat screws and now my extra screws and washers are the wrong colour and screw, so the back isn’t very pretty. Easy and cheap to replace, if it ever seems not pointless. I mean, that is never going to be pretty.
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But it’s so right from the front, all the same, and short, neat posts. The original ones. Happy, almost.👍💜
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OK, so that's as far as paring it down can ever go - odd how ...

2026-10-22T00:44:32Z

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OK, so that's as far as paring it down can ever go - odd how this renovation had such a fine line to success, it's about perfect now, I'm going to be happy playing it soft. The neck is my shape now, I'll be happy to try to play soft since it feels so nice now.
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So I'm out of lacquer, planned and used every drop and now I have to buy a whole new can again, I've sanded it smooth and stained it, it's ready.
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So I'm onto the tuners after all, one string at a time, not waiting to make it easier with a new set, I can't wait - couldn't wait - to know if my re-bored cogs were going to work, and -
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The first one's working, and it was my worst square bore, but it's holding and it's SMOOTH, OMG. One out of twelve, so far so good. 👍
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. I also heard a rumour, I never saw the work, that people breed ...

2026-10-21T00:26:05Z

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I also heard a rumour, I never saw the work, that people breed in response to the threats of war and famine, etc.
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I hope somebody’s wrong!
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War to control population, breeding as a response to war . . that’s a short loop 😠😀

. In The Nurture Assumption, she said women caught pregnant after ...

2026-10-20T23:23:05Z

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In The Nurture Assumption, she said women caught pregnant after a year or two and weaned the last kid when it was time to feed the next one (a year or two, plus a gestation = three?), punting the three year old into the children's group outside -
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But that wouldn't be the only thing wrong with that book, like her conclusions. Really, I suppose it's a Pinker book, he commissioned it from her, I think.
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He probably did because she is one of the world's great writers. As I was hating everything she said, I was falling for her, for that writing voice, LOL
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But the book is the worst of what I call NT science.
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every three years, seven, ten, fifteen kids - it's a good theory if women love to suffer, LOL

. Humans ain’t always pregnant, mostly, would be a big one, I ...

2026-10-20T21:21:59Z

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Humans ain’t always pregnant, mostly, would be a big one, I guess

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2026-10-20T21:16:30Z

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. my thing is I would like to think that this war is not the way ...

2026-10-20T21:09:02Z

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my thing is I would like to think that this war is not the way humans always worked, that these people are not uncontacted by the modern genes, that the Neolithic proper wasn’t this way, that humans weren’t always dedicated to either war or unlimited growth.
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It’s not always easy keeping my faith about that. 💜

OK, feel free to skip ahead to the punchline, ha ha ha ha . ...

2026-10-20T21:03:00Z

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OK, feel free to skip ahead to the punchline, ha ha ha ha
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First, no jig, I solved that issue from the other side of it, I figured out how to hold the damned guitar steady instead. Had it strapped down Dexter style, then with it not moving I could keep focus on my block, the angle.
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I put the V shape on it - not really, it’s a V on the sides but the middle of the back is round/flat, and changes end to end a bit - I like to pretend it’s like the American Masters neck from, you know, that evil multinational corporation. Imma get sued. 😜
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But I did the basic shape yesterday.
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I thought the action got lower, but couldn’t believe it enough to be sure.
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Then I was supposed to wait and see for a week, but of course I did some more today, took a bit more off and cleaned it up near the edges. Again, the strings look LOWER.
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I wonder if the real luthiers are ahead of me? 😜
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This guitar turns fifty-nine years old next month, I found it because it was broken and very much end of life - so the neck was bent forward. I didn’t get to see it, the breaks opened instead when I might have, but of course it was - IS.
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This neck was forcing it forward the whole time, never pulling it back. The only thing pull - pushing it back, I mean, was my new added fretboard. I’m sanding the wood off the part that was raising the strings!
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Thinking I’d better stop while I can play it at all, before the strings are laying right on the frets. As it is, it’s an acoustic jazz guitar, crazy low and needing a light touch (which ain’t really me, LOL).
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The saddle is already almost full height too. 🧐
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On the plus side, shape is nice, and maybe I got a little relief back? I’m complaining: dammit, I got a vintage acoustic twelve string jazz guitar. I hate it when that happens.😠
😜💜💜💜
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. Well that was cheerful, huh 💜

2026-10-20T19:04:14Z

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Well that was cheerful, huh 💜

It does feel a lot friendlier, those flat areas, the V neck ...

2026-10-20T02:32:41Z

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It does feel a lot friendlier, those flat areas, the V neck thing. I never could stand a round neck. A little maybe goes a long way at this point.
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I mean, if it's not moving, I can carry on, make it as skinny as I want, huh? - LOL. Going to see if it ever moves first. I swear, it had a little relief when I set it up, and now it looks bent backwards, I need it to move a little or I'll have to re-do the fretboard and frets.
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OK, weird, I took a bunch of wood off, I can feel the flat spaces ...

2026-10-20T01:49:54Z

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OK, weird, I took a bunch of wood off, I can feel the flat spaces where I did - but it hasn’t moved, hasn’t even gone out of tune.
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Going to leave it alone for a bit, maybe it just needs time.
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If anything, the action seems LOWER, but that’s got to be impossible doesn’t it? 🧐🫣🎶
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OK, back to the shop. 🫣😬🎸🎶 . I find myself planning ...

2026-10-19T01:24:22Z

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OK, back to the shop. 🫣😬🎸🎶
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I find myself planning to pare the 12 string down even further. The action is low, I can’t hit it hard at all, and there’s a little shim under the saddle too.
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I think I can take the shoulders off the neck a bit and let it fall forward a bit.
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I’m thinking since it really doesn’t have the cash value that I think it should anyway, my luthier/broker said so, that I might as well see if I can get it closer to small enough for me. It seems OK, but not for very long. It’s already too fat, I can’t be only raising the strings without taking something off, this is the only way I can fix that, I mean for my hands.
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It’s the back of the neck I’ll be pressing on, shouldn’t stress the breaks, whereas pressing on the front might open them up.
Might! Did already, both of ‘em.
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My only problem is I already tried to get this wood off and failed the first time. I need to make a jig to keep the tools at the right angle, something probably around sixty degrees. I want to see a long flat spot. Then I suppose I’ll want the strings off and the shim out, and if that’s happening I can put the final tuners on.
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Once more into the breach, my friends.
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Not immediately, I have to work out this jig business first.
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I’m on Dad’s side now. . That’s another NT binary that ...

2026-10-13T17:50:12Z

I’m on Dad’s side now.
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That’s another NT binary that isn’t, abusers and victims - they’re all NT, no-one escapes, they all pass it on, being a victim frees them up morally, and they are all both at once. From outside the cycle, from outside of NT world, only the famous mega-abusers stand out.
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The rest are all both, sort of equally.
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. . . about authority . to my mind, the fractal root of the ...

2026-10-12T18:38:18Z

. . . about authority
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to my mind, the fractal root of the technical nightmares, of the Frankenstein meme, meddling with what is not for us to touch, is about power and violence, we never should have touched the toxic evil of authority, but we touched it, we learned of it and it learned about us or something, we touched it and it’s in us, like
cookies touching milk.
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Like a perfectly addictive drug, our parents were hooked and we are born addicted, with a need, a disease we have no chance to avoid and no chance to know what life would look like without it. Someone touched it once, against their better judgment, surely expediently, as it always seems still, and everything changed, people began to lose touch with the world, and some timer was started.
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So it’s forever the warnings and the worries that some such thing will happen, because we know it happens, because it already happened, but really it’s too late, these are not warnings so much as known truths, and we should hear them as history, not futurism. None of the modern world ending technologies would have come up if we hadn’t already foolishly played with the fire of personal power and violence, had we not begun cheating on the old morality by trying to “use,” a thing we never should have touched.
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. I understood there were two popular scales, not a full inch ...

2026-09-27T16:05:31Z

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I understood there were two popular scales, not a full inch apart, but that looks like three inches longer

. like spanking?

2026-09-27T11:43:58Z

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like spanking?

They’re still talking about “consciousness,” like they’ve ...

2026-09-26T17:45:49Z

They’re still talking about “consciousness,” like they’ve never heard of the subconscious
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yes, you have some consciousness of some things, same as every other thing with a few neurons, get over yourself and worry about becoming more conscious instead of boasting that you “have consciousness,” already and saying the same crap you used to say about “divinity,” about it
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sorry, nvm, carry on
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Divergent thoughts about biblical creation: . you know, I’ve ...

2026-09-26T01:03:50Z

Divergent thoughts about biblical creation:
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you know, I’ve been talking about biblical creation as the beginning of NT people, but I’ve been ignoring half of the story. Of course it’s about the Fall, isn’t it. 😀🫣😬
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Off the top of my head, the first soundbite that has been careening around in it and needs to be let out is the bit from Paradise Lost, when our antihero Beelzebub declares that it is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven - this to me must
be NT-ness, Allism, and it is the point of most of what I say that it is NOT better, that ruling and thinking your world is Hell makes it so, and that as someone else said, serving and thinking your world is Heaven would make that so instead.
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Off course in this story, Beelzebub is only the first to Fall into that view and that life, into that neurology.
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Not sure I’ll have more anytime soon, but 💜🤨
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Here’s a bit of noodling just trying to show it’s playable ...

2026-09-19T20:39:39Z

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Here’s a bit of noodling just trying to show it’s playable now.
OK, “I,” can’t play All Night Long in F, but you could on this thing. 💜🎶
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Honestly, back to the nut - it did feel like $350 when he handed it back to me 😜
Not anymore
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EDIT TO ADD: Not really trashing him, pretty sure he knew I’d be setting the height myself, I knew he didn’t have time to tweak it as nice as I needed it to be, or that I couldn’t afford to pay him for all that time. I’ve told him before that whatever counts as “normal,” wasn’t good enough for my hands and I was paying him for his acuity with a ruler, and just to start the slots in the right place for me. 💜
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I think this project is finished. 98 days since I found it, 14 ...

2026-09-19T19:58:26Z

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I think this project is finished. 98 days since I found it, 14 weeks. 👍
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Just read what I wrote, and I can’t afford to discard any tuners that are working. I’ll keep this newly assembled bunch for emergencies.
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And maybe I’ll try a smooth saddle sometime, and if I’m going to pass it on, but it’s not a problem for me, it’s done.
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I’ve put away the table and the vice. Trying to find the mood to show you that I can play the F chord.
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That was really satisfying, making that speech about the nut, then doing it, and showing the before and after. Soon.
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OK, I really didn’t want to farm out the work AND buy the ...

2026-09-19T03:51:30Z

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OK, I really didn’t want to farm out the work AND buy the tools, so I managed with sandpaper on edge like a knife. It opened the slots, doesn’t look as slick, but you can see, he left the strings flush to the top of the nut in the before pic, and you can see how far I’ve lowered them here. 💜
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I can play an F chord now. 🤨🎶
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Loosened and tightened every string repeatedly to do it, these nearly matched tuners are working alright. I may be able to wait until a regular string change first.
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It’s a bit funny that after a month away from this insoluble problem, where I was never going to get proper tuners for this foreign vintage 12 string, suddenly I feel like a have almost a whole spare set. LOL 🙄
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I mean, tuners, but the strips are still a mess. (There’s a pic in /70)
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Ah, I have nothing to fix the nut with, I’ll have to buy ...

2026-09-19T01:15:20Z

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Ah, I have nothing to fix the nut with, I’ll have to buy something - and so I shouldn’t have farmed this out at all, FFS
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on the positive side, I’m able to file a square hole into the new tuner wheels, so I think I can do a proper fix for the tuning machines now, I have new wheels on old posts now, ready for next time I change the strings, maybe when I do the nut.
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possibly controversial opinion: . The nut is too high if you ...

2026-09-18T21:45:03Z

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possibly controversial opinion:
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The nut is too high if you press an open string down at the first and you can see it move.
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hold a string down anywhere else and press it down for the next fret and you hardly see it move at all, I mean if your guitar is playable. I mean, I’m not usually wearing my specs. 😘
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If you have trouble playing F chords or Bflats, this is surely why, because the nut is five times higher than anything else.
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I can totally see and feel these moving and so I’m out to shop for a needle file at Home Depot before I try to do it with the wrong tools and before I have to go buy one at Stew Mac.
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ADDING: I thought I’d been keeping my calluses, playing a little every day, but when I picked this up as it is now, I felt immediately, This isn’t small enough for me, and where did my calluses go? That’s what a high nut feels like. I mean, I did hope to get it smaller, but it was within range at the easy end, except it doesn’t feel like it at present.
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I understand they have to build it with some room, it’s going to matter the gauge of the strings and such. The slots won’t rise with time, if anything they may sink a little.
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Plus it sucks to go too far and having to glue something tiny but hard back in there, etc.
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But labour is money and quality, if someone spends this extra time tweaking the nut down, I guarantee they’ll love their guitar more. 💜
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Ah, my guy did a lovely job. I might be worrying the slots a ...

2026-09-18T02:07:52Z

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Ah, my guy did a lovely job. I might be worrying the slots a little deeper yet if I can’t play an F, but they’re all in the right place and the look is proper, I’m happy with his work.
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I can’t bring myself to tell you what he thought he could sell it for, it’s about what I bought it for dead. I didn’t say what I thought of that (fuck you too, Buddy), I just paid him and thanked him. Autistic misanthrope that I am, I remembered that I don’t find people worth talking to, smiled, and went home. 🤨🫣💜
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“too many mods,” he said. It’s the same as the time I purged and fasted and cured myself of the amoeba my doctor couldn’t cure, he said, “oh, you shouldn’t fast, very dangerous.”
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I was dropping weight, dying in front of his eyes, but I shouldn’t have fasted. 🙄
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Same here, “too many mods” - the thing was dead and now it’s whole, and I’ll save you searching the thread, it’s a 1967, solid maple pre-boughtout Framus 12 string acoustic dreadnaught, and it’s so well cared for it looks like a new one.
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Anyway. Cheers. 🎶💜
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ah, the 12 string is finally coming back. Dying to see it, been ...

2026-09-16T23:41:54Z

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ah, the 12 string is finally coming back. Dying to see it, been so long I've almost forgotten it, 26 days.
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Then I can get back to the nightmare of the tuners. 😜
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EDIT TO ADD: tomorrow! 👍
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a ramble. I need to write to think. . whoever said antisemitism ...

2026-09-13T18:54:16Z

a ramble. I need to write to think.
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whoever said antisemitism is part antimonotheism, I don’t think they were wrong, but they probably had it in the usual Allistic timeline, meaning that the pantheons of lesser gods are old and monotheism is new, but for me the fight against monotheism is the other way around, the new, aggressive people have fractured, split personality gods and their war began against the primal goddess of the stone age. This places antisemitism as an oddly consistent over time because it’s the same battle that the Steppe people brought at the beginning of history, the new modern humans battle against the Old World, the genetic drift of the new people.
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Counterintuitive, for sure, the Hebrews were supposed to be the new monotheists as contrasted with Egypt, but that wasn’t really how it was for their first few millennia, and some readings of the OT, the Lord may as well be Mars, they were monotheistic if life was about nothing but war, but there were other gods earlier.
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It’s a theme, the normal narrative, what I call #AllisticScience , sees a before picture where I (and Gimbutas and anyone who believes in the peaceful Neolithic) see the after picture and an earlier transformation. We don’t see the Greek Pantheon as primal.
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Full disclosure, shoot myself in the foot moment: I think we think the Hindu pantheon IS primal, grown out of animism? I need to find some Asian prehistory, but do we think that of the Greeks? In ways yes, in ways I don’t think so, it always seems like the gods vs the earthbound creatures. I could be clearer about this.
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ah, tired myself out.
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the person I was speaking to has said goodnight, so I’ll ...

2026-09-12T00:22:26Z

the person I was speaking to has said goodnight, so I’ll “speak as though to the air,” if you’ve read Neurotribes.
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The pattern I pulled out of #TheChaliceAndTheBlade about ancient history was that Allistic people happened somehow and their aggression sent them off conquering the world of peaceful Neolithic peoples, and after every great conquest, they would kill the men and breed with the women, diluting their Allistic warrior genetics by half in the next few generations.

Still the Allistic men were in charge and war never really stopped, only paused and war encompasses all, and these newly pacified people begin to follow the Allistic invaders’ evolution, and this society now grows and evolves towards unsustainable levels of aggression again until another public meltdown and another conquest - and until the last millennia, there were new, Neolithic/Indigenous to assimilate, and a relative peace following each conquest, as old genes are again freshly incorporated, before the Allistic environment has unselected them again.
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this scenario has almost been completed, the Allistics vastly outnumber the remaining Neolithic peoples today.
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All that was just to get to the new thought, that this is where the Allistics’ mad idea of a war to end all wars originated, in the postwar temporary genetic influx of old genes that happened repeatedly throughout ancient (European) history, that’s why they think war makes peace, because it looked like it did.
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All that is in the past though, there aren’t enough old genes to affect the drift anymore, any more such peaceful intervals with be highly localized and increasingly rare now. Anyway, we need more than just a breather every milennium, this evolution needs to stop
and turn around completely.
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But you need to know where you’ve been and all
that 🙄🤨😇💜
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I've always hated Voltaire's famous quote, but I suppose ...

2026-09-11T19:51:25Z

I've always hated Voltaire's famous quote, but I suppose it works if you realize that it is your own parents and caregivers who made you believe absurdities like, "This is good for you." 😠
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if you thought you knew what I think I know . it’s like knowing ...

2026-09-09T23:37:29Z

if you thought you knew what I think I know
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it’s like knowing there’s mercury in the water and what it means, or lead, except if people were violently opposed to chemistry and they’ll burn you as witch for trying to tell them about it
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thinking that, “has a genetic component,” reveals the lack of ...

2026-09-06T10:51:30Z

thinking that, “has a genetic component,” reveals the lack of causal thinking. I mean, as well as what, or as opposed to what?
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A genetic component as well as what other components? Is there some part of living things that “isn’t genetic,” like what?
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Genetic components and created ones? What is the previous idea, what is the opposite idea?
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. the thing is, moving the pollution to one side of town isn’t ...

2026-09-05T17:17:40Z

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the thing is, moving the pollution to one side of town isn’t saving the planet either. WHERE the toxins are doesn’t matter, there isn’t a place that’s OK to poison

my attempt to understand the world has reached a point where ...

2026-09-03T01:33:54Z

my attempt to understand the world has reached a point where it’s pointless to carry on with, it doesn’t mean anything to anyone what I figure out, if anyone had all the answers it still wouldn’t matter, not to everybody else.
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I got fooled about this “march of human knowledge,” deal, as though we all absorbed everything anyone ever figured out. Oh gawd.
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We learn it in social mode, we learn the NAME of the person who figured it out, Charles Darwin, Rachel Carson, Sigmund Freud. Darwin figured out evolution (and Wallace, and surely others. Me.), so Darwin knows evolution, everyone else is still talking about Human Nature. Same with Freud. 😠
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What I have figured out, I know, and so it don’t mean squat and I’ve wasted my life. Ain’t nobody asking me nuthin’ and human knowledge isn’t a thing.
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Not in NT world. I assumed too much, I give too much credit.Their nations and their laws are still based in ancient Greek paganism.
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Antisocialization theory and neurotype again. . it’s all ...

2026-09-01T19:30:00Z

Antisocialization theory and neurotype again.
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it’s all problematic, you can see everything two ways, depending on context, the level of context - it’s like the, “Oh, that’s good/No, that’s bad,” sketch from Hee Haw, if you’re old, white and American enough for that reference.
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I speak all the time about how spanking makes them hate and how thinking poorly of people in general (like Christian Original Sin, or Palaeolithic Emotions, meaning we are emotionally unevolved) is destroying the world through punishment at home and war abroad - so thinking well of people sounds like the answer -
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But, No, that’s bad! Because despite that thinking everyone is bad is destructive, a self-fulfilling attitude, thinking everyone is good when they maybe are not has difficulties too. Problematic, as I said. We need to think we’re good, but it needs to be real, there has to be a reason we’re good, we would have to be trying to be good, doing something to make ourselves good - and the abuse of punishment doesn’t do that, how many generations does it take to see it?
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If we think we’re bad now, unfortunately, that attitude has that support, we do all know that we are abused, both maliciously and with good intentions, and so there is a sort of proof, a case to be made. Unfortunately, this logic doesn’t rise to consciousness, somehow, and knowing this cause somehow doesn’t translate to changing it.
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So I’m glad if you think,”people are good,” but it doesn’t mean much if you’re abusing anyone while you think it, if your kids are getting threatened and punished. You may be sort of believing in one world while living in and contributing to another there.
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We are divided politically, right down the middle if you believe the teevee, half think people are good and half not so much, but last I heard 85% of North Americans self reported spanking. You wouldn’t be alone.
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BTW, don’t we think that’s the percentage of the majority neurotype too? The entire normal population sees no reason not to spank and no reason not to tell you about it?
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I don’t want to single the person out, and I’m not, believe ...

2026-08-28T19:23:35Z

I don’t want to single the person out, and I’m not, believe me, every normal person and most of the weirdos say what I’m about to argue with. I’m borrowing their text, though, it’s perfect, just what nearly everyone thinks.
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“I think violence is a part of human nature and could never go away. Even if you found a way to stop all physical violence, the human aggression that causes it would still exist.”
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I have a hard time accepting this, but I don’t think the majority sees anything wrong with that statement. Honestly, I think it’s built in, evolved into the majority.
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But from over here in Divergent World, what I see is an excuse never to change anything, never to stop whatever is causing the aggression. “It would still exist,” so it is beyond causality, beyond science or thought? Purely a spiritual matter?
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I’m still a toddler among the adults of Allistic science, having to ask, “Why?,” every ten seconds because, “because of Human Nature,” isn’t a real First Cause, you’re just sloughing your child off - OK, Dad, I’ll keep
it going: why, “Human Nature?” And anyway, when someone isn’t aggressive for thirty seconds, isn’t that, “Human Nature,” too?
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You have the same answer for opposite questions?
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But back to the point, the majority is so certain that aggression is natural and proper, causeless and inevitable that they will not experiment, will not learn anything further about it.
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Honestly, if you tell me it’s Human Nature and everyone is the ...

2026-08-27T16:49:40Z

Honestly, if you tell me it’s Human Nature and everyone is the same and the good ones are lying, then I certainly know that’s who YOU are
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I suppose things have changed, my morning fixed thoughts have to ...

2026-08-24T18:21:27Z

I suppose things have changed, my morning fixed thoughts have to some degree moved on from my kids to the global puzzle, I spend a lot of time to imagine how to reach people, the majority, how to break through their indifference to causality, show them how they are forever making things worse.
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Nobody loves me, nobody needs me, so in this time between working and dying I’m trying to save the world, which clearly needs saving.
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But things get infinitely complicated when you start modifying and controlling your own environment, the environment that also modifies and controls you.
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There’s a time travel film from this century, I think, called Primal, and the narrative inevitably unravels, especially because you learn that our time traveller is bringing his machine with him into the past and then time travelling from there, etc., complicating matters further - that’s as close an analogy, to the complexity as I can think of to people, “controlling,” their environment while adapting to it.
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It’s not perfect. I expect the traveller in Primal knew he was changing the timeline - while the human sort engaged in controlling their environment don’t seem to think anyone is adapting. This is a further complication, this apparent blindness to ongoing human adaptation.
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This is the wall I beat my head against every day, how to convince them evolution is real, present, and inevitable? They already think they know it and believe in it. It’s a version with a twist, they know about evolution, that’s how they became this unchanging, unchangeable thing, the brutality of the past
made us this way forever! Somehow it all gets turned on its head.
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TBC, probably.
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ah, my local luthier, busy as they are, resisted a little from my ...

2026-08-20T22:52:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…dx00
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ah, my local luthier, busy as they are, resisted a little from my descriptions, but once they saw the guitar, they were good taking it on for a new nut.
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I’d actually been holding pics back and downplaying how nice it was, I wanted to surprise them, that almost backfired, LOL. All good now as long as the tuners don’t fall apart on them, I should be seeing it back and proper pretty soon. 👍
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visited a guitar store today, found a case that fits the new old ...

2026-08-20T01:04:14Z

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visited a guitar store today, found a case that fits the new old 12 string and some strings. No tuners, but I got a lead for a luthier who is retiring, I’ll try them for that.
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Saw something interesting, last I saw and I’ve been advising people about this, that the new 3/4 size guitars still had fat, full girth necks, that they may travel better, but they weren’t any help for people with small hands like me - well, that seems to have changed, the guitar industry seemed to have noticed that small people and people with small hands would also like to buy guitars and I saw a handful of them that I could get
my little paw around this time, that almost passed my test!
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So, I’m sorry, retracted! Check them out!
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Almost made me feel I’ve been wasting my time making my own. 😠
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working through my regrets about this, my brain is snidely ...

2026-08-19T19:45:35Z

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working through my regrets about this, my brain is snidely telling me I should have done that at the start and that I knew it.
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Should have broken the original set, should have broken the brand new one - but there’s reasons. I mean I wish I hadn’t stripped one of the new posts and broken the handle off of one of the old ones, destroying one of twelve of each, one vintage and one new - but this is best in the end.
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For the old ones there’s one little upside, the handles weren’t modular, they’re stuck to the strips. If one broke off (I mean later), it’s the whole strip. The other old strip I’m using is modular for that, and I have spare handles.
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For the new ones, it would have been nice to have new gear, to not have thrown that money away for nothing, but it’s new crap too, irreparable if it breaks.
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So these strips and handles are proper old and modular, it looks right at a glance - the posts aren’t, well six are old, but not from this or any 12 string, and they almost match the six new posts - I still have twelve matching old posts I want to install when I find six more good wheels with the oval bore, and I’ll keep looking for those.
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It can’t be right and they must have misunderstood, but Stew ...

2026-08-19T17:51:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…95tq
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It can’t be right and they must have misunderstood, but Stew Mac just told me they have no tuners to fit my guitar, nothing that will fit the 1” spacing.
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I wish I had known that before I did the rest of the work. Mind you, plan A, the laminated neck is the same spacing, I’d have had the same problem.
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I’ve put something together, but there is one stiff one, the handle is tight in the frame with no wheel attached, I have to fix that before the knob breaks off, which happened once already in this process. If I can fix that the very last possible thing will have worked, but I’ll know there’ll be nothing for another old Framus no matter how nice it may be otherwise. And nothing for this one if one more thing breaks.
😬🫣
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EDIT TO ADD: Using a cheap trick I used on my very first Texan, to fit new after market tuners on a Framus, breaking the strip apart (the Framus spacing on a six string is further apart).
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Well, even the Framus tuners don’t really fit Framus guitars so I’ve done the same thing now with my last strips. In fact those are the very screws and fancy washers holding the middle piece of the strip in place because the middle one only has one mounting screw. Colour matched buk shi.
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new wheels all around and all
of them fitting straight in their holes now. There’s still some stiffness here and there, but in theory it should be good and in reality it mostly is.
👍
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It’s always like this, I finish a project and I have a new ...

2026-08-12T18:11:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…rjhv
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It’s always like this, I finish a project and I have a new exciting guitar but my neck and hands are toast and I can’t play.
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I spent most of another few days dicking around with tuners, unwrapping and rewrapping the same set of strings, both my hands are half asleep today. I gave myself yesterday off from it all and so far today too, and planning to keep it that way.
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I didn’t solve it all, but I have reduced and simplified the problem. I just need to find another set of six basic tuners with wheels I can use, that’s where I’ve found six so far, they’re out there.
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I mean, that’s the ideal solution. There will always be the option of finding twelve new individual tuners that fit within one inch centres.
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SO disappointed about the Framus Vintage “real,”
set. That was going to be my, “if nothing else works, I can just PAY,” solution, and it wasn’t. At all. Tell your friends. What’s happening at Fender happened at Framus in the early ‘70s.
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Another capitalist, World of Illusion bit of bullshit, they can make it and sell it, it does everything for the economy but fucking work.
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you’ve got enough science not to be, “out of the blue,” or ...

2026-08-09T17:07:31Z

you’ve got enough science not to be, “out of the blue,” or “adrift on this ocean,” or even having to “make your own meaning,” anymore. Something just isn’t bloody working.
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PERGOLA!! 😀🥹 . /68 #Luthier #Guitar #Framus12StringProject

2026-08-09T06:11:54Z

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PERGOLA!!
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Well, I did what I could about the tuners, it’s an eclectic mix ...

2026-08-08T20:28:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…dxzm
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Well, I did what I could about the tuners, it’s an eclectic mix of all the parts I have at hand, including a whole expensive new set. There’s still five of the new wheels and posts on there. 🙄
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and I put a little shim under the saddle, this isn’t the Revenant project, it’s not settling. It’s bloody amazing.
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Last evening I played my idea of One of These Nights, all up between the seventh and tenth frets, with my sore little hands, on an acoustic 12 string.
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That ought to be impossible. I mean, I’m not sure how hard you can strum it yet, that’s the trade off for low action, right?
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Pics of my sister guitars.
Look at that pattern, that lighter stripe in line with the bass strings, it’s like the next slice off of the same spruce tree.
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I mean, by the labels, they came out a year and a half apart, but look at them. 😍
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Well the strings make a massive difference, sound, and maybe ...

2026-08-07T20:31:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…9c0d
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Well the strings make a massive difference, sound, and maybe tension and so action - it’s suddenly too LOW (I know, I can’t believe I said that either) - I mean, maybe the repair wasn’t just cosmetic either, I don’t know.
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I only just set the action where I thought it needed to be before this repair - by sanding the bottom off the saddle. Now I want it back, LOL. Having said that, it’s awfully nice this way, plus you learn about your fret surfaces when it’s this low, found out the second fret was still a bit high on the bass side, and it still looks like some body rise.
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Still tuning it upwards, waiting for the strings to settle and kind of hoping the wood will too, a little.
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The tuners still suck. 😠
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VERY happy to report that seems to have worked, at least for most ...

2026-08-07T17:01:26Z

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VERY happy to report that seems to have worked, at least for most of them, one or two are still a bit stiff, we’ll keep worrying away at that, but a big success.
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They LOOK amazing, vintage where it looks right, strips and knobs, and shiny new posts and wheels. That’s a result. 👍
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Now again it’s a matter of trying to be patient if the repair needs to cure - but does superglue need that, I don’t seem to believe so - so next is stringing it up again, see how the nut is working, I’ve bought some of the supposedly warmer sounding strings, see if that helps.
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I hadn’t noticed, but the blue pack D’addario strings I had used do say “extra bright,” all over them. 🙄
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bah, the tuners still too hard to turn. I have one idea. I think ...

2026-08-07T08:29:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…77pr
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bah, the tuners still too hard to turn. I have one idea. I think the new wheels are too big or the old peg holes are too close to the handle gear, and I think I can try opening the peg holes by a /32” to increase that distance a bit.
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The tuners are giving me fits.
I wish I was surer that the existing ones were old and stiff before I put the big ferrules on, but they must have been or I’d have noticed the nasty change immediately. And they’re clearly old, despite being very clean.
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First I took them apart and oiled it all, didn’t help.
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then I tried more than once to find a combination of wheels and pegs from my spare parts supply, to no avail.
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Then I gave up and ordered the expensive new ones.
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They don’t fit, at least not on this particular guitar. So I tried to use the new wheels and pegs in the old strips, and I was able to put that together, but it’s not a good fit, they’re still stiff and horrible.
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Tomorrow, we drill out one hole, see if it helps, and all of them if it does.
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I assume, as I usually do, that if I ever get it working I’ll be the only idiot who ever did, that a normal person would let these things die. 😠🙄
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It’s going to be very satisfying, though.
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Ah, I feel like I should have known. The new Framus Vintage ...

2026-08-06T15:47:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…u42f
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Ah, I feel like I should have known. The new Framus Vintage tuners seem like Chinese crap and they don’t fit, the strip js shorter, the spread is too short for my actual vintage Framus guitar with no ferrules at all.
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I’ve taken the new pegs and wheels off the new strips and put them on the old ones, we’ll see how that works. You can’t change the handles on the old strips, but that side of the gear doesn’t look worn, steel vs brass, I guess. Plus the old handles are bigger and look more original.
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They don’t seem to have been the originals, though, there’s a different set of old screw holes under those strips. - EDIT TO ADD: - wrong! Upon closer inspection, those aren’t screw holes, just the indentations from the rivets that hold the old tuning strips together.
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Now I do think these were the first set. 👍 Original look, new gears, sounds perfect, except the fit isn’t quite. I think the peg holes in the old strips want to be a little bigger for the new pegs, the pegs are standing up at other than perpendicular, leaning towards the guitar a bit. Thinking about it, but it’s a huge PITA, and probably impossible without damaging the handle gears.
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I’m going to see if they work alright this way, fingers crossed.
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Still working on the repair, going to go after the rest of the crack, all the way around, and it might be too hot out for lacquering when that’s done.
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This might keep me busy all summer after all. 💜
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Ha! I’ve been stringing and unstringing this thing for a few ...

2026-08-06T00:54:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…unrc
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Ha! I’ve been stringing and unstringing this thing for a few weeks, and the break near the headstock opened up at the start - now for the first time I felt a sharp edge in the other break, the one at the other end of the neck on the . . . heel, is it called?
😳
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It didn’t open up yet, the action hasn’t risen. But my fingernail did go right in on one side.
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Hoping to nip that in the bud, I unstrung it again, scratched that crack open a little, gave it some warm water and then filled it with super glue and clamped it. I know it’s super glue, but I still plan to leave the clamp on overnight, as someone said, that’s the most important thing.
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I went down to Long and McQuade for a warmer set of strings. The thing is so bright I can’t stand it. I suppose I’ll try to tweak the nut again before I put them on and see if the break stays put. And the repair needs lacquer, so the glue can dry for another day or two as well.
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So close!!! LOL 🤣
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meh, it’s so wrong, I can’t get the nut height down for the ...

2026-08-05T17:18:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…0z5p
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meh, it’s so wrong, I can’t get the nut height down for the small strings and there’s at least one whining from a bad slot, and I don’t have the tools - screw it, I reached out to the area luthier this morning. Get ‘er done. 👍
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Ah, the tuners don’t fit with the fancy ferrules, I had to put ...

2026-08-05T00:25:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…5hav
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Ah, the tuners don’t fit with the fancy ferrules, I had to put the basic sort back on.
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That’s another thing you can make room for on a six string but not on a twelve, live and learn. 😀
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Sometimes I have a good idea but I don’t know it’s good and I ruin the execution of it, this is the case with this wonky nut, but with the bridge pins, I had a good idea but simply didn’t implement it enough. Now I’ve shaped them all smaller and all the same, and it’s almost interference free.
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New tuners, new set of strings, action at a reasonable height. I think I’ll play it this way for a while, break in these strings, see if I can figure out how to play it, see how it sounds before I fix the nut.
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Project over, I think.
The rest later, an epilogue. 💜🎶
Except of coarse I’ll show you how it sounds if I can make it work.
🎸 Pics:
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Hey look, when the bass strings are on the bass side, the inlay ...

2026-08-04T01:25:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…hgnk
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Hey look, when the bass strings are on the bass side, the inlay dots don’t look so bad! Ha.
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OK, so, I’ve turned it around. . It’s a pity the sloppy ...

2026-08-04T00:39:16Z

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OK, so, I’ve turned it around.
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It’s a pity the sloppy string spread at the nut, otherwise the Martin’s nut fits perfectly, except I missed on the spread and not in a repairable way, you can’t fill those slots for the A strings and cut away all that’s left of the original. I’m still going to get it set up proper.
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These strings are finally done, stretched and some broken and sounding it - but according to fedex, the tuners are coming tomorrow.
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Still a thing or two, there’s the extra two inlay dots to come out, and with the action better I can see a little body rise, I need to take the highest frets down, above #15.
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Then the new tuners and strings. Then when it settles into tune again and I play the sheen off the new strings, we’ll see what we got. 💜🎶🎸
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Having said that, I’m still having trouble making the 12 string ...

2026-08-03T06:42:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…4vdr
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Having said that, I’m still having trouble making the 12 string sing like I know it can, so I’m going to unstring it and start the changes.
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First, action isn’t low enough, and more so on the treble side.
I swear, I can’t see the high E string even with my readers on against all of them, I can’t tell or set it right by looking at that side - but I can sure feel it, and hear it. I can’t hold a bard chord down, and I can recognize this fault by simply grabbing it to pick it up by the neck, feels sharp and unsexy in my hand.
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Not allowing myself to touch the torsion rod yet, so that will mean lowering the saddle.
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And while I’m at it, I’ve found another nut that I can McGyver (the one I replaced on the 00-15 earlier this year), and I’m going to turn this 12 string around, bass strings on top. I think that’s better for me, I’m weak, I don’t hit it hard enough to get them equally and if I only hit one it ought to be the bass one.
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I think I can change the existing saddle, like fill my notches and cut new ones. I’ve ordered new blanks for both ends, but I’ve made a mess of this used nut already, I’m going to let someone with the right tools do those for me eventually, when I’m sure it’s worth the expense. This is all just to try to get it playable and configured right on the cheap first. The tuners might still be a week away. 🎶💜🎸
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when you lack the actuarial sense, you would rather rule in Hell ...

2026-07-31T15:26:13Z

when you lack the actuarial sense, you would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven
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We must imagine Geezuz as clinically depressed 🤨 . #Psychology ...

2026-07-30T19:21:02Z

We must imagine Geezuz as clinically depressed 🤨
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A great barn find feels like winning the lottery, like God has ...

2026-07-29T23:37:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…5090
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A great barn find feels like winning the lottery, like God has smiled on you for some weird and wondrous reason.
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Just told this thing, “You’ve made me the happiest clinically depressed man in the world,” 🙄
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I think I’m done, except there are new tuners coming, and maybe ...

2026-07-29T04:26:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…maxl
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I think I’m done, except there are new tuners coming, and maybe I can upgrade the nut and saddle some day, but the woodwork is done and I just finished the frets.
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You know, you look at my fretting and especially the inlay dots on this one and you would never call me anal retentive - but I did do this whole job with a single set of strings, that’s gotta count. 😜
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OK, the regular G string broke a few unstringings ago, but I tied a knot in it and it’s still OK, all those little octave strings and I didn’t break any of ‘em. Weird, this job has been charmed. 😇
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I may treat myself to a new set when the tuners get here, make that easy, all pleasure.
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still not sure it’s small enough for me, but I’ll try it for a while.
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audio sometime soon 💜🎶
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EDIT TO ADD: pics and: I’ve worked out that I can live with the off centre inlays if I simply lose the two furthest from centre and nearest the sound hole, just pop them out and fill the holes, no-one needs those. 👍
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ANOTHER EDIT TO ADD: I mean, if I put those two on again, where? Properly in the middle and so out of line with the rest, or in line with the rest, wrong on purpose? LOL. I think I’d feel like a fool either way. 🫣😜
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THIRD EDIT TO ADD: received it June 29th., this morning I found it in tune and I just started playing it, that’s one month. 👍
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Nowhere in the whole history of the world did any animal change ...

2026-07-29T01:25:48Z

Nowhere in the whole history of the world did any animal
change its nature because someone TOLD IT TO.
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No-one changes because of what they’ve been taught, only by the manner of the teaching. It is the manner of human socialization that makes us what we are, not the content of the lessons.
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Not everyone is going to be a mathematician, not everyone is going to be a linguist, or a doctor - but the vast majority can learn the lessons of the METHOD, of authority, of pain and humiliation, of exclusion and failure.
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I honestly can’t explain why they thought the abuse would change people when they all thought people were created to be broken, but the problem is that in an evolutionary world it is the abuse that DOES change them and the education that does not.
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For the record, there are a few buzzes at the tenth fret and ...

2026-07-28T03:27:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…aljm
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For the record, there are a few buzzes at the tenth fret and upwards, and I did notice a bit late that some frets still had a bit of a peak in the middle, I guess I didn’t get them all the way down.
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I’ll deal with that, but I need a few things for the final fret work, some sandpaper between the 220 and the 1500 buffing stuff, some 600, plus I’m refreshing the edges of my buk shi fret file first.
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It might still settle some while I get those tasks done, but that could be quick, another day or two. I think I’ll be back doing that before the tuners get here.
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Oh yeah, I’m buying the tuners from Framus. Plus bone blanks for the nut and saddle. I think this was a great find and it deserves not to be left with any big deficiencies.
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since my burnout and divorce and a lot of self discovery - like ...

2026-07-27T17:09:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…0c2v
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since my burnout and divorce and a lot of self discovery - like finally facing the fact of my KFC spork sized hands - I ‘ve been dreaming of and sporadically searching for a deal on a real, old, proper wood guitar that had been let go to end of life, that I could somehow fit with a skinny neck for myself. I’m from Vancouver, I was thinking about American legacy brands, Martin, Gibson.
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But in ten years I haven’t seen such a creature, they don’t let those ones die here, they get reset and restored.
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Apparently the luthier industry pays less attention to foreign brands, the euro brand I happened to to fixate on for those skinny laminate
Texan necks, Framus, I’ve found two of those so far, and only one Martin off-brand one - a Vega from Japan, not sure, maybe that’s the same as a Takamine - in these ten years.
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I hope it’s a model issue and not a brand issue, but the Vega was better than the Revenant, had the big Martin sound.
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But the new one, this 12 string, it is as close to the ultimare barn find dream as I’ve gotten yet, I think. The price of an American big brand proper twelve string from the ‘60s or ‘70s on Reverb, well, they start at two or three thousand and of course the Martins only go up from there. Not sure if I saw any Gibsons at all.
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I fear it’s too good not to buy the tuners and a proper bone nut and a properly cut saddle, and that’s what, $300 if I carve the bone bits myself, so maybe it will have been $1,000 all in.
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It’s been tuned up once a day since the evening before last, the plan is to wait until it settles, stays in tune overnight, and then start testing for buzzes and whatnot, try to finish the setup.
💜🎶
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Busy few days, a few things to tell. . 1. Did all that, took more ...

2026-07-26T23:27:55Z

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Busy few days, a few things to tell.
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1. Did all that, took more wood off the easy end, fretted it back up, lacquered the neck, especially the sides of the fretboard, and I stained and lacquered the bridge, which looked like rosewood but still a little out of place for being kind of blond.
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2. My pick guard, LOL
I had this idea, use some striped maple veneer for the top layer of a few, but when I stained it with the same stain that seemed good on the neck it went all dark, so I painted it black, but you could still see and feel the grain -
but I aimed the grain across my strum and it sounded like someone was playing the maracas or something, some percussion instrument. If I wasn't hitting the strings hard, my nails on the pick guard was louder!
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So I put six thick coats of lacquer on it, got it shiny and a lot smoother. Not a structural matter if I want to keep going until it's as smooth as plastic later. But my can of lacquer is getting pretty light.
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3. Certainly not right yet, but it passed a test it didn't pass before, frets 0 - 5 all play different notes, on all twelve strings. Hasn't been strung up for a day this time yet and it's still very new, that could still change.
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But I think that means it's just the fret tops now, wood is good, maybe. 🤞 😬
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Try every fret soon, make a map for final (LOL) finishing.
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4. Fretting, bloody fretting, I lose sleep before and after fretting about fretting. The handful of fret jobs I've done, I've tried to fit and finish them in place, on the guitar, and I generally destroy the edge of the wood trying to make them safe. I have a fret file for the top edge, but I can't somehow deal with the lower bit, the sharper bit, is it another tool I need?
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But this time I had the (immediately) previous frets for length, I tried finishing the whole end of the fret first and then installing it. It does seem to soften the bottom of the fret, but I've made a bit of a mess, they don't draw a very straight line, and I haven't used my fret file at the tops yet. I think it will work out but still be a bit of a crooked line looking down the edges.
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I just tore a whole set out, I want to get it all right before I do that part again, my hands hate that bit.
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5. Oh - still inlay dots 5, Jeff 0.
They're smooth on top but I missed centre pretty badly, don't ask me how. I cannot seem to stay conscious doing those things. 😜 🙄 🤮 🎶
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6. Still not my favourite size and shape this neck, but I might be able to play it a bit at the easy end.
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At some point I stopped thinking about whether I could use it and started trying to save that original neck. 💜
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So I sort of ignored the fretboard from the fourth fret down ...

2026-07-24T19:57:15Z

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So I sort of ignored the fretboard from the fourth fret down (about the break, not wanting to weaken that part of the neck) and sure enough, it doesn’t flex there at all, the relief doesn’t begin until the fourth fret now.
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It’s more than I want to fix just at the fret level, so I decided to remove the frets from the seventh down and re-plane the wood, and then Bardmoss helped me realize I’d forgotten the inlays, so now they’re all coming off again. 😬🫣🙄
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A few steps forward, and a big one backwards.
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But I never have done the inlays right, sanded properly to grade with the wood. Kind of looking forward to getting that right once.
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It’s not done yet. Seems shrill. I don’t really know how to ...

2026-07-23T19:35:54Z

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It’s not done yet. Seems shrill. I don’t really know how to work a 12 string, this is a hard pick. 🫣🧐
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OK, I think I have the required space between the fretboard and ...

2026-07-22T20:22:21Z

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OK, I think I have the required space between the fretboard and the strings, 4/32”. Time to put frets on it. 👍
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OK, I’ve done most of this a time or two but I was getting ...

2026-07-22T00:45:49Z

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OK, I’ve done most of this a time or two but I was getting ready to pretty aggressively go after the top of this fretboard for a second time today when suddenly I got the Fear, realized I was rushing in, and remembering that Elvis would not be impressed, I thought about until I realized what was wrong.
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I’ve replaced the adjustable saddle, this work has to be perfect, and I was thinking I had a long ways to go yet - but that I only dropped the nut in carelessly, I’ve doing all my looks like that, and I have no idea if it’s the right height at that end.
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What I’m doing is I put in two frets, no glue, the first and the twelfth, the twelfth is where you measure your action, and the first is the one that you set the height of the nut to only just clear, so now I have the nut very close to where it needs to be and so that’s my true angle to the saddle.
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Now my action measurements at the twelfth will be better.
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It still looks a little back bowed and wants another 32nd off measured at the twelfth.
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I guess I’ll stop talking about letting it settle for a day - taking a break.
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You want to make Mastodon laugh, tell them your plans ...

2026-07-20T23:18:16Z

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You want to make Mastodon laugh, tell them your plans 😜🤣🤣🤣
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Overnight it sounds mostly in tune and it’s not bent forward, ...

2026-07-20T19:37:28Z

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Overnight it sounds mostly in tune and it’s not bent forward, but I do wish it was even stiffer and staying backwards a little more. There’s not much room to work with there, it’s not going to get much smaller anymore.
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But, for better or worse, the gonzo part is done, it will be tight, but no apparently fatal mistakes have been made yet. Intonation seems good, thank GAWD. 🥹😀
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Now it’s sort of proper luthiery, shaping that fretboard. Having attempted the gonzo bit twice before, I think I’m stuck with myself as the experienced hand for that, but I wish I had more experience than twice doing the normal part, I see a lot of slow trial end error and broken strings in my immediate future.
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Then frets, then more of both.
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First I have to figure out exactly where to remove wood and where to leave it alone. Do I take it all down evenly or do I only sand the thickest bits, where I left the old fretboard thick? - sorry, my brain is wired through my mouth, I only think out loud. Going to work through this here.
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It’s sort of a conundrum, you take wood off the top, you’re placing your new surface back, from the guitar’s top towards its back - but you’re also weakening that spot, so the strings pull it further forward than before, it may end up being in the same place. I guess the second thing is more evident where it’s thinnest, at the headstock end, the first frets.
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But it’s true of the whole length too. The action looks 3/16” low now, but it doesn’t need a whole 3/16” off, because it will all move forward a bit too, right?
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There are reasons it’s a whole trade. 🧐💜
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If the end bends forward, that’s a quick way to get the required final shape, gets the strings up off the frets, but that’s where I’m ADDING wood, that’s where it’s broken and vulnerable, the last thing I want to do is plan to bend that forward. Ah, I think that settles it, I need to dig out the wood from the third fret up, like that, the rest of the way to the sound hole.
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Lift them strings more gradually.
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Still, it’s tight. I fear I’ll need to cheat, leave it less than new in terms of a nice high saddle and a slack truss rod before it’s done, just an intuition, maybe.
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planning to let it settle for a day or two while I try to think about it more.
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OK, I tuned it up, it didn’t snap immediately, and honestly, ...

2026-07-20T02:50:59Z

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OK, I tuned it up, it didn’t snap immediately, and honestly, all the news so far is good, it’s straight, even still bent backwards a little, which is exactly what you want at this point.
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So far, so good. 👍🥹🥹🥹💜
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Thanks to Scott for making me wait and thanks to Ross
for making me go 🥹💜💜💜
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@archaeology/116942317256778474 My point ...

2026-07-19T16:09:01Z

RE: https://mstdn.social/@archaeology/116942317256778474

My point is, what is the point of trying to show the violence is forever except to justify it today? What good does it do us to think that it’s forever?
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#Evolution #Psychology #NTPsychology #Philosophy #ActuallyAutistic #ND #AuDHD Actually Autistics (npub1pce…geep)

quoting
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90,000-year-old Homo sapiens jaw wound points to possible violence in early human groups

A new study of a human fossil from Qafzeh Cave in Israel has identified one of the oldest known healed injuries caused by a sharp object. The research gives a rare look at violence, health, and burial customs among early Homo sapiens who lived in the Levant more than 90,000 years ago...

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Unable to escape my fixed thoughts and the state of the world ...

2026-07-19T15:54:45Z

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Unable to escape my fixed thoughts and the state of the world last evening, I almost tuned the thing up and started the work.
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I’m trying to let the glue cure for a month, I almost snapped on Day Eight. 😳🥹
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because if it just breaks after a month the wait was pointless, I tell ya, dead or alive, this Schrodinger problem is pure angst. Apologies for screaming and cussing:
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WHY THE FUCK DID I NOT USE SUPER GLUE???!?!?
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AAAAAAAUUUUGGGHH!!!!!!!!
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So whatever happens, with either neck, tuners are a problem. . I ...

2026-07-18T18:03:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…efej
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So whatever happens, with either neck, tuners are a problem.
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I haven’t made sure that the tuners are spaced in a non-standard or non North American standard way, but they are on the old Framus six string guitars, and I will. The wheels, the cogs are worn out and they are on all
my old spares too, or it’s a different attachment from wheel to post, and modern wheels are too big, don’t fit between the tuning handle and the post.
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I guess that answers the spacing question, doesn’t it, if one is smaller, six are smaller too.
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Framus sells replacement sets, €124, I think it said, so $200 CDN plus shipping, I think that will probably be the only option other than just living with them stiff. I don’t ever want to pay that, but certainly not for Schrodinger’s guitar, I’ll wrestle with that cost if it’s going to work at all.
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Bought the black paint, the pick guard will be cool.
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Well, shipping has been prompt, a little too prompt, I should ...

2026-07-17T18:33:50Z

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Well, shipping has been prompt, a little too prompt, I should have gone the longest, cheapest route. My fretwire has arrived.
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After a lot of self destructive haggling with myself over when to start counting dates because the glue went in over most of a week, I have finally seen the proper and dare I say Aspie-logical proper date to count from and that’s obviously the day the last structural glue went in, and that was last Friday, so as much as I would like to add time for the first bits that went in I can’t and I’m not.
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My glue has been curing for one week today, and I’ll count Fridays now. (and one week is definitely not long enough, and I was starting to tell myself it had been, “two, REALLY,” and wondering if two was enough - but I’m feeling much better now, as they say).
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One week, three and a half to go, is how long I’m hoping to wait. But the weather will be a factor, if there’s another record heatwave, I won’t want to test it at forty-five degrees. I made exactly that mistake plus another brainfart and broke the Revenant’s original neck, I forget which summer that was, ‘21, ‘22 maybe.
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Patience. 🥹💜
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I don’t want to put a content warning on just for “pissy.” ...

2026-07-15T17:19:13Z

I don’t want to put a content warning on just for “pissy.” Sorry.
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That was just one theory, this ‘NT people are all alphas,’ business, I wasn’t married to it - but now I’m mad about the reaction I got and I want to double down on it, get argumentative and fight for it whether I’m certain or not.
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It meant everything. If you think I’m with the alpha bros then you have missed everything I said, you didn’t really hear anything previous either, erased me.
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Everything is a goddam false binary. If I think something different than the majority liberals then I must be with the majority right-wingers.
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No, it’s not politics, I’m not with either of you, I’m Autistic and you’re both wrong, and you both share the same science. The majority of progressives and of conservatives are both on the NT spectrum. You’re closer to the alpha bros than I am by taking the new party line because that’s what all the good NTs say too.
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So nice that there are no human alphas, huh. It’s so much nicer, the affiliative world war, the cooperative police states. Thank God we’re all the nice kind, can you imagine?
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I’m giving these two pared down necks with the newly exposed ...

2026-07-15T01:05:42Z

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I’m giving these two pared down necks with the newly exposed wood some UV treatment, see if they get closer to the right colour. 😀💜
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Hey, guess what I did. 😜 . It wouldn't even have been ...

2026-07-13T21:08:58Z

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Hey, guess what I did. 😜
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It wouldn't even have been enough fretwire if I had ordered the little bit I did correctly and it was the same as the fretwire I already had on hand, but it isn't.
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So I've ordered some more and not taken the express shipping, just airmail, it says one to four weeks, which puts my back to work date on it out of my hands, there won't be much sense hurrying to find out what it looks like under tension if I haven't got the materials to finish it anyway. Kind of perfect. 🙄 👍
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And the day it arrives I'll take it as a sign from God that it is time to GOOOOO 😀
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Well, I thought I had a can of black paint, but I guess I ...

2026-07-12T19:53:43Z

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Well, I thought I had a can of black paint, but I guess I finished it. I hate to buy a can of paint for what less than 20 square inches, just for a pick guard, I mean, I’ll do it, but I hate it so I’ll do it real slow.
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I strung it up loose and put it away, cleaned up the whole project, put the tools and the table and the vice away, and now when I can’t wait anymore I’ll tune it and see what happens, see if I’ve straightened the neck enough, see if it stays in one piece. Hopefully no news for at least a week, hopefully longer. 😬🫣
Cheers
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So in the interest of adding a little strength to this already ...

2026-07-12T07:00:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…a75y
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So in the interest of adding a little strength to this already broken and then pared down neck, I’ve carved a sort of a cleat between the nut end of the fretboard and the tuners, sort of extended the fretboard beyond the nut, and then cut a slot in the new piece for the nut, hopefully that will help.
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Plus I polished up the logo and lacquered over it to hopefully stop the tarnishing. I had only polished the name when I took this pick, not the banner part yet.
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And I’ve built a pick guard out of veneers, and the top layer is striped maple like the back and sides, but the same stain I used for the neck turned the pick guard chocolate brown, not in this guitar’s palette at all. I’ll have to paint it black after all.
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A few little details, that, plus I have enough side dot materal left to do the four on the highest frets, #15- #21, at least on the right handed side.
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There will be some finishing details but they can wait until the very end, if I can make it work. Now mostly, I have to see how long I can wait for the glue to cure before I string it and carry on setting it all up. The cleat resets the counter for that, I’m at Day One again.
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EDIT TO ADD: I realized I really have no data, no previous experience of doing these things with these glues, the Revenant was a completely different job and when I did this sort of job before I hadn’t yet heard of hide glue, the Vega’s fretboard is never coming off again. I have no idea how long to wait.
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I just guessed that I ought to give it a month, but having no real clue and nothing to do, I doubt I’ll be able to wait that long.
I suppose a week after the cleat
thingy (and two weeks after the break and the fretboard) is my guess at a minimum, that’s when waiting will get difficult. That would mean next weekend.
😬🫣🎶
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I suppose I’ve sort of explained my attitude, I’m taking it ...

2026-07-09T20:19:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…regh
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I suppose I’ve sort of explained my attitude, I’m taking it down to as small as I need it to be and it if breaks, I’ll eviscerate it and start the bolt on conversion.
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I just feel I’m in a weird place about it all. I took the sides and the back of the neck off as far as I need to and as far as I dare.
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Now I’ve installed the side dots, stained it, and I’m going out for a can of lacquer in a minute. I’ve finished this neck except for the setup and the frets, done my downsizing on it, I’m wokimg on a new logo and a new pick guard - and I have no idea if I’ve cured the end of life curve yet or made it worse.
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I’m keeping busy, trying to let the glue cure as long as possible so I can’t tune it up to find out. I’ll either crash at the finish line or not, I guess.
🙄🥹💜
Ha - it’s still Schroedinger’s guitar
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. then you’re right, don’t watch his stuff. . The point was ...

2026-07-08T15:02:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…y6n4
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then you’re right, don’t watch his stuff.
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The point was it was about who is left out - in the film it’s aboit a sign on a place, “No dogs or Mexicans allowed,” and they changed the sign to let dogs in.
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In my toot it’s about how children and dogs can learn - but the grownups are not on that list, the NT grownups. 😘

carrying on from number 34, honestly, the next part of the plan ...

2026-07-08T01:03:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…wytr
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carrying on from number 34, honestly, the next part of the plan is to shave it down until it fits my hand and can't possibly survive the pressure of the twelve strings.
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It was already dead, and if I was trying to fix it for somebody else, I wouldn't have done the trimming that I already have, if it can't work for me, I'll be happy enough to chop this neck out and up - you see, the thing is, I just looked at my bolt-on neck and it's TINY. That one is maybe one inch thick and this one is one and half at this point, I'm pretty sure I'll reach the truss rod slot long before I get this one down to one inch thick.
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I might settle for one and a quarter to keep the original look and a bit of that will be the front, the fretboard - the one on the little neck has gotten very thin, partly why it's so small - but I don't see how this real neck can ever be as small and lovely as the bolt on, plywood looking one. This is some idiot form of due diligence, but I really want the other neck.
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So that's the plan, carry on with this until I break it, then do the other thing, even if it has to be the hard way. I can soak the new fretboard off and then sand my way to the joint through the old one which was not coming off that way.
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Between trying to get the old one off the nice way and now, I've discovered I own an electric sander, it may turn out I used it on the wrong end. 😜
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EDIT TO ADD:
I mean, it’s a slim chance but if it does survive and work this way, what an ultimate guitar it will be!
I’m shooting for the stars, but I’ll be happy enough to crash on the moon. 💜
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. 😘

2026-07-07T23:02:21Z

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Well, the second idea was way worse, but I’m stoked about the ...

2026-07-07T22:49:31Z

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Well, the second idea was way worse, but I’m stoked about the first one, that’ll do.
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. . . Donkey 😜🙄
You may have to zoom in a bit 💜
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The spread doesn't look great, but the strings aren't tight. I'm putting that off as long as possible for the repair to cure, but I wanted them on, even loose to finish shaping the width. I made a little change for the "G" string notch, turned out it was the octave one that had to move, and I tightened those ones momentarily to check, and it's better.
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I’ve got the fretboard width almost where I think I want it ...

2026-07-07T17:02:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…0lml
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I’ve got the fretboard width almost where I think I want it now, almost down to the width of my smallest 12 string nut - and Good Lady, with that fresh, full new fretboard right now it’s as round and fat as the fattest guitar neck from a hundred years ago.
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I can’t touch finger to thumb around it anywhere, not even close. A lot of work yet, and an adequate outcome is growing more unlikely by the day.
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But hey, as Mom used to say, can’t dance and too fat to fly. If it doesn’t work out, I can still butcher and convert it like the other one. 😀
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(Geez, that’s a great title for a disabled person’s autobiography, huh.)
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nope, changing that plan now, going to carve the width and the ...

2026-07-06T23:35:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…8j29
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nope, changing that plan now, going to carve the width and the back /shoulders a bunch, maybe finish it, to taste sort of thing before I ever tighten the strings.
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I’ve another little problem, I’m squeezing the spread of the strings all around, that’s why all my saddles are notched, and first, I did pretty good for proportions on this saddle - except the low “G” string is too close to its mate, I need somehow to move that over a bit. But the larger issue is see the pic, you can’t squeeze your string spread on a 12 string, there’s no wiggle room.
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I’ve been thinking I would try to take the sides off of the forward bridge pins, but I just had an incrementally better thought, to lop the tops off of all six of the forward ones.
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Something has to be done. They’re going to pop out like bullets.
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😘 . it's like that racist bit in the Hateful Eight, ...

2026-07-06T23:04:46Z

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it's like that racist bit in the Hateful Eight, "when she decided to let in dogs"

. could shorten that, huh, make it a meme: . I speak normally to ...

2026-07-06T21:51:12Z

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could shorten that, huh, make it a meme:
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I speak normally to dogs and children and people because that's how dogs and children learn 😀

ha ha ha another little post hatching realization. . I always ...

2026-07-06T02:50:49Z

ha ha ha
another little post hatching realization.
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I always talk to children and animals as though they can understand and if the kids can’t that’s how they learn, and today’s little slap in face comes from that I do that because I’m Autistic and that’s how it works when I’m talking to anyone, adult humans included, that’s what “talking,” is for me, I just talk to myself and I and everyone else just pretend we’re the same species speaking the same language 😠💜
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It’s white wood glue in the break, although I think I saw ...

2026-07-06T00:24:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…lkjp
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It’s white wood glue in the break, although I think I saw Julian do something on The Repair Shop using some super strong polymer glue. I don’t have that of course and not sure what to buy, so I tried the white stuff, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll still have that to sesrch for and try.
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the fretboard is on with that horrible to use Titebond Liquid Hide Glue, so in theory it could still be re-done if need be. Did the repair last night and the fretboard this afternoon and I have other things tomorrow so by the time I’m planning to take the clamps off and mess with it, it will be tomorrow night, everything should be as set as can be.
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Then I’m back to putting the “e,” strings on, drawing my lines and paring it down to size.
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It’s a two edged sword: I invest more labour in a perhaps still broken neck, but if I take the time and I do, the glue is probably continuing to dry and cure while I do.
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And that’s my decision right now: shape it as much as possible - the width is certainly possible - before I test the break again and if that holds, see the amount of flex and start shaping the top.
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I love you guys but nobody answers goddam questions. 😠 . I ...

2026-07-05T21:44:31Z

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I love you guys but nobody answers goddam questions. 😠
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I decided that what I needed to do besides gluing the break was making it strong as I can from the other side, the fretboard side, meaning take not another millimetre off of the fretboard at that end and attaching the new one as solidly as possible.
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Plus I decided that’s structural, and I ought to finsh that first, before I start worrying about shape - plus I realized it’s a new fretboard, no frets yet, so no reason it’s the under piece that has to be shaped.
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So I can go back to a normal sequence, shape the final top fretboard instead. If I sand through the fret slots, I have a fret saw, I can just cut them again.
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I took it off, one time only, took the peak off the under piece one last time and glued the new one on again, and was not miserly with the glue, that ought to be permanent.
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Thanks for nuthin’ kids 😀
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ah, I’ve a devil of a choice now, keep shaping this fretboard, ...

2026-07-05T19:10:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…maey
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ah, I’ve a devil of a choice now, keep shaping this fretboard, do the next thing, finish the job when the neck may just snap off again, or tune it up again now, snap it again now?
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I don’t see anything on the wood glue bottle about curing, just clamp for 25 minutes, and I had gotten it all wet first so I left the clamps on overnight JIC, do I test it now or is it too soon?
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Is there a #Luthier in the house?
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just to remind you who you’re dealing with: I really think it ...

2026-07-05T17:34:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…85j3
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just to remind you who you’re dealing with: I really think it needs some staples 😠🧐
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OK, so that break near the headstock maybe wasn’t fixed, or I ...

2026-07-05T16:55:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…txkr
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OK, so that break near the headstock maybe wasn’t fixed, or I broke it again. I put some strings on it to set my width and shape of the new fretboard and then I tuned it up to see how far it would bend and that break opened right up!
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I tried to get some hot water to it partly to wash away any soluble glue but also to open the pores of the wood and glued it again, but honestly all you can do there is glue and I don’t see how it’s ever enough. I’ll be shocked if it stays put.
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Apparently they do sometimes though?
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Guitar heads get snapped off all the time, right? And you glue them back on and carry on, is that right? 🥹🎶
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so there’s some width to come off yet, but I took the corners ...

2026-07-04T05:13:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…yefw
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so there’s some width to come off yet, but I took the corners off at the skinny end and gave the new top fretboard its basic shape now I’ve glued it on for the first time and tomorrow I’ll put the “e”strings on it and mark it for its eventual, final width and shape.
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Then it’s sand it down to that size and shape, that’ll take a minute, means a fair amount of wood off the sides of the whole neck.
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Then it’s fret it out.
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THEN it’s adjusting the shape of the original fretboard under the new one until it’s perfect. I’m already a lot further along than I thought, but that could still take all summer. 🥹🎶💜
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I mean, can anyone tell me what that wood is called? Is it, ...

2026-07-03T23:20:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…j6ap
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I mean, can anyone tell me what that wood is called? Is it, “Striped Maple?”
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I’m not having much luck on the ol’ search engine.
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As soon as I changed the plan, I got onto Stew Mac and ordered a ...

2026-07-03T06:42:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…n26p
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As soon as I changed the plan, I got onto Stew Mac and ordered a new fretboard, fretwire, inlay dots, side dots and a new roll of 220 grit sandpaper.
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And I was hoping this project would keep me busy so I paid for International Express Three Day shipping and it was a day before it shipped and since then it’s said seven days, theoretically on Tuesday. Seven seems like a long three, but I just hope that number is right!
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So it means this project is happening sort of backwards, I’m doing my thing with the saddle and the pick guard and I changed the ferrules.
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I hope that will make the gonzo reset less daunting, knowing that when I reach the end of that long process there won’t still be a bunch of other jobs waiting.
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Well, a smaller bunch.
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I have an old plastic nut from one of the student necks, ah, sorry, that was part of the other 12 string too, same as the ferrules, and that’s what I plan to set it up with, the string width is much less, and I don’t feel competent to wing a new 12 string one, that’s going to be my string width. I’d love a proper bone one, hopefully later.
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The saddle, I have a bone one with six notches in it I made for something else, I don’t recall what, I’m going to try to set it up with that, and there’s two problems with it, the notches may not work and the whole saddle may not be tall enough.
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I probably should have bought new blanks, but it ain’t free and like I said, I’m not really up to carving them myself. I’ll have to see how things go, figure this out later. I’d hate to pay to farm it out. I hope the old nut works, I worry that the project will stall if I have to order those things. I’m also almost out of the horrible hide glue and best case scenario I’ll have to drive to a bigger town to find some.
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Tomorrow there is still some
detail I can add in the slot for the saddle and I can cut out the new pick guard from a few layers of maple veneer glued together tonight (the old plastic one is warped). Then I can lacquer the bottom of it and paint the top of it black, but basically I’ll be waiting for that fretboard. 🧐🎸
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UPDATE: the tracking was wrong, it’s coming now, three days after all!
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So I’ll have to edit this one out of my super villain back story 😀
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I had to double check for the millionth time inside the Revenant, ...

2026-07-02T23:11:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…dx6j
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I had to double check for the millionth time inside the Revenant, in case I’d missed it, and for a second I thought maybe I was wrong - but then I saw and remembered that you can see on the inside a line down the length of the back with one sort of grain on one side and a whole other piece of veneer on the other. LOL. Definitely composite.
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The 00-15M is real wood, but it’s new and it was expensive. Real wood from the ‘60s, I am so chuffed! Gonna kill me if I can’t make it work now.
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EDIT TO ADD: I guess the takeaway from today’s realization about the project guitar is if you see an old Framus acoustic and the sides aren’t split, grab it 😀💜
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Holy moley, the back and sides are real, solid wood, and all that ...

2026-07-02T20:23:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…sckg
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Holy moley, the back and sides are real, solid wood, and all that striped magic . . . maple(? I think??!?)?
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my dream was to match the Revenant, my 6 string, but the Revenant is all one sort of grain on the inside and only the stripes on the outside. Only the top is real wood on the 6 string.
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When I thought I was putting a bolt on block inside, I took a few pics to see what was inside, I wasn’t looking for grain, but I just looked at the pics and the stripes are there! The pic is not great, but I think you can see it.
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Now I suppose I’m in the market for a 6 string to match my 12 string! LOL
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Plus it explains why this one hasn’t got cracks and splits all around like the rest of the Framus’ that age do, it’s proper wood!
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Wow, great find, pressure’s on to make it work.
😀💜💜💜
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That’s done enough for the first try now, and a new fretboard ...

2026-07-02T00:46:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…dwgg
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That’s done enough for the first try now, and a new fretboard is on its way, and I spent a little while installing the better ferrules, the old sort it had were the thin, stamped out kind. Disassembled the other 12 string just for the ferrules (the steel ring around the tuning pegs).
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EDIT TO ADD: starting to see a different shape sanded into it between the bass and treble sides, I took more off the treble side than the bass, and got closer to planned shape there too. I’ll try to adjust that tomorrow, get the bass side closer to the plan.
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It’s something that always happens, I assume because I’m right handed and one eye dominant as well, I mean most people are tilted to one side. Of coarse I tried to get it even already, not sure what I can do to try harder - ah except.
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I’ll move the vice to the other end of the bench, be working from the other side, use the tendency again. That should be all I can do tomorrow, I don’t expect any parts until the next day.
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I’m coming around to the new plan, getting excited. It’s a long process, but again, not as long as converting it to a bolt on neck, and s/b a far more desirable result. 👍💜
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I sure wish I could remember the exact shape of what I added to ...

2026-07-01T20:05:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…epl3
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I sure wish I could remember the exact shape of what I added to the Vega between the neck and the fretboard.
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All I remember for sure is a lot of painful trial and error. I was shaping the under bit, gluing the fretboard on and stringing it up to see what the final shape was, unstringing it again, stripping the top fretboard off again and then adjusting the shape. I was simply doing, over and over, I didn’t have much of a theory.
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I would like to shorten that process, so I’m theorizing and trying to remember.
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I know the fretboard was thicker on the body, above the 14th. fret, and it needed a high saddle. I don’t think that’s completely avoidable, but I think I could raise that part a bit less.
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That part looks flat, unaffected by end of life, I mean of coarse, there’s no neck there at all, so it doesn’t want the convex curve there, my arc has to end before that, but how do I transition my convex piece to straight? I think all I can do is centre my under piece thickest in the middle of the neck, like 6th. fret, and have a more abrupt curve over those first six (done this morning, with nothing off at the 6th., probably that’s too thick, too much curve overall, and I’ll be taking it down) and a longer curve from there to the sound hole.
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I don’t feel that’s really right, but that’s going to be my starting point.
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As to theory, partly the partial
second fretboard simply fills the space created between the fretboard and the strings by end of life stress, but also, the extra layer of rosewood is strong, and resists that stress going forward.
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There are issues, the neck gets thicker, I am forever tempted to remove wood from the back of the neck to compensate, but I fear that I took too much off the back of the Vega’s neck, got too close to the truss rod. I suppose I’ll never know if the Vega breaks. It will be a pity, it’s basically a Martin D-18. Sounded fantastic.
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And this 12 string’s neck is wide, but it’s thin and flat, there is no wood to take off the back there, but I guess that’s the same as saying it’s thin enough already and I won’t need to.
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