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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on October 8, 2014 at 4:35pm

Brilliant!

Why not Dremel out the opening for the neck, cross cut an X and peel it open.  When you go bend it back, you can put a metal tab on the inside that's threaded or use sheet metal screws to hold the X closed...

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Permalink Reply by Dante on October 22, 2014 at 7:11am

thanks for the advice so far guys I will let you know how it goes.  life got a bit hectic round here recently, only manage to get as far as glueing the neck and fretboard and planing it down after at the moment.  haven't done more than mark out the can yet!

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Permalink Reply by Dante on December 27, 2014 at 11:30am

ok guys been quite a while.  I have ended up building both since I last posted! the red one was a 'rough and ready' practice without any pickup so i had minimal cutting.  the second I removed the base completely, glued in a timber frame and screwed it back on.  doesn't add too much weight and I am pleased with the result I hope the customer will be too!

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Permalink Reply by Dante on January 3, 2015 at 1:07am

no it came like that.  was such a nice can that i didn't want to cut into it!

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