FIRST INSTALLMENT--1968 335 RESTORATION

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:24 am

Neat, petite!!

I'm beginning to wonder whether you've ever slept at any time since the age of 18, Paul!

No room for women, Patrick? You're a sick man!

karl_teten · Post by **karl_teten** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:23 pm

GARSH Dale! What a beautiful car!

The Woodie car meet is coming up soon in San Diego.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:09 pm

Thanks, Karl!

Ummmm.....OK.

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:52 pm

Paul, that is one great looking automobile.

karl_teten · Post by **karl_teten** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:43 pm

Sorry Paul!

You have a fine Woodie too!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:06 pm

Thanks, Karl. You made my day.

joepee · Post by **joepee** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:58 pm

Dale ...and yes, you Paul,

Both have woodies bigger than mine.

But remember "Women dig men with short Rics!"

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:44 am

My son was still in diapers the year he received two large 'Toy Story' figures for his birthday. He told his grandmother, "I got a Buzz and a big Woody".

We will NEVER forget it.

Noel

dale_fortune · Post by **dale_fortune** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:22 am

Love it Noel, our children say and do wonderful things.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:16 am

OK, here's the next installment, brief, but with a SURPRISE for all.

This past couple of evenings, I finished the sanding and detailing and pulled the truss rods to check on their condition and re-tape them.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/necksand.jpg

The following pictures show the rods, the components to the twin truss-rod system, and how they assemble into the guitar. The bearing plate is a chunk of 1/4" thick aluminum bar stock, hand-made and hand-fitted to this guitar. I believe it's T3, judging by its medium hardness. T6 would be too hard to file as aggressively as this one was filed, but I could be wrong on this minor point.

The rods themselves are taped with vinyl tape along their inner faces only, to help the halves to slide better against each other.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/trassemblies.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/trcloseup.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/trnuts.jpg

The adjustment nuts are known in the hardware trade as "coupling nuts" and are available from McMaster-Carr as part number 93525A283. These are identical to the RIC nuts except that the wrench size is 5/16", not 1/4". This size will fit the majority of guitars, however.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/trrout.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/trrout2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/trinstall.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/trinplace.jpg

Then, as I began scraping the paint from the inside of the "cat's eye" sound hole, I scraped the JG and uncovered--midnight blue, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

So, apparently what happened is that the original burst was stripped and the guitar painted Mid Blue. Then, later, the Mid Blue was stripped (everywhere but inside the soundhole) and the guitar was refinned in JG--twice. So this will be its FOURTH refin since 1968. Is it back to the future or forward to the past? Doc!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/jingle_jangle/surprise.jpg

bill_yantz · Post by **bill_yantz** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:11 am

Paul, it looks like you've got it stripped down beautifully. Will you be able to remove the overspray from the body cavity at the sound hole?

If it were my guitar I would be going nuts on what color to refinish it in. I love all the vintage colors pretty much but would lean toward fireglo or somekind of burst, if it were possible. If not, Mapleglo.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:47 am

Bill, it'll be Autumnglo, as mentioned in one of the earliest posts.

As of this afternoon, the pickup polepiece routs have been cleaned up and the paint has been removed from the soundhole by a combination of scraping and sanding.

I'll post pics of these operations in the next installment, which will cover the task of refretting.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:08 am

Make it slightly different from Autumnglo, Paul, and call it 'Jingleglo'!! Have it ready for David at Christmas and it will be entirely appropriate.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:31 am

Howard, are you commenting on my speed?

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:38 am

Yeah, Howard...and to Xmas in what year were you making reference to.

Sorry, couldn't resist.