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• @punishmenthurts@autistics.life 2026-07-03 06:42

  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. . 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! . 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. . 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. . Well, a smaller bunch. . 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. . 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. . 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. . 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. 🧐🎸 . UPDATE: the tracking was wrong, it’s coming now, three days after all! . So I’ll have to edit this one out of my super villain back story 😀 . /25 #Guitar #Framus12StringProject

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