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| It had old peg tuners. |
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The back of the neck was worn away showing it had been played a lot.
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I took it apart.
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| Lots of scratch marks where the old strings had been replaced. |
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| I soaked the metal in cider vinegar to get rid of the rust. It bubbled away and miraculously the rust disappeared. |
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| Blotted it on kitchen paper. |
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| Look! No rust! |
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| Repainted the 'pot' with a good oil based paint. |
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| New calf skin under £10 from Ebay |
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| Soaked it in water 20-30 minutes. |
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| Blotted between kitchen towels. |
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| Carefully laid it over the pot and pressed the ring down over it. Pulled it as tight as I could without letting the ring pop off. |
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| Replace the chrome bezel (my word don't know the terminology), pulling the skin through with a pair of plyers. |
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| Pulled the skin as tight as possible and as evenly as possible all the way round. Turning and pulling until it was smooth. Then trim off the excess with a scalpel. |
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| I added a double pickup, why? Dunno, just because I could. They wouldn't stick to the skin, so I stuck them to the wood and used a wire to keep them stuck down. |
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| Added a button to the bottom! New Strings and geared tuners. |
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| Tighten up just enough to make it ping and put it all back together. |
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| I would love to know who owned this and which songs were played on it for all those years. It's been repainted and restored many times in the past. This is my effort in 2014. May it live long and give many people pleasure! |
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