John Kidder has so graciously offered up a
basket-case X-350 to the community in this thread, figured that it would be good to have a dedicated thread.
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john_kidder wrote:
The back bindng is shot.
Carefully remove binding and replace with closest match. Try a thin colored wash on scrap, to try an match the natural aging? I'm thinking tinted lacquer?
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Layers of ply are separating on the waist of the bass rim.
The plywood is delaminating, shoot some thin hideglue under the separations and clamp down with a sandbag? Maybe even a heated sandbag?
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The peghead surface looks corroded near the nut, as if it had been eaten away by something.
Interesting use of an amalgamator solution to repair a crazed finish. Lacquer drop and a cork block/2500 grit to repair?
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The pickguard is amazingly warped.
Make a repo from the warped guard (just in case.
) Gentle heat and slow and gentle compression to try to flatten it out?
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The frets are shot, and the fingerboard has huge divots all up and down the neck - Eiichi the luthier said it looked as if had been played by an aggressive blues guy who never cut his fingernails.
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It's had a replacement neck binding sometime, which seems to have been heatshrunk over the ends of the frets.
Considering that it needs a refret, that may or not be a problem. My Gretsch has nibs on it's binding. Maybe there are nibs on this one?
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