Came out so easily I wondered if I even needed the iron but I kept using it to minimize tear out. Heat the frets with an iron then pulled them right out. Harbor Freight $3 end nippers, ground flat for pulling frets. Pickup switching is either on/off or both pickups in series if both are on. Single coil pickups, more like P90s but kind of their own thing. Basically a Strat neck on a thin, small form factor body. Still the same back bow.Īs spring was appearing in warmer weather here and there, I decided to get the iron out and see if this Tulip could be salvaged.įor the players seeking light weight guitars. Left the neck another couple of years with and without clamp load (there are a few projects around to work on so it wasn't a rush). tapped the rod to make sure it wasn't bound up and it wasn't. thought about clamping it in the oven at elevated temperatures but decided against that. I initially removed the truss nut and clamped it up to give it some forward bow. I bought it for a price I could do ok just selling the pickups (Ry Cooder created a market for these types of pickups), anything else would be a bonus. Most parts were original, no strings, and bad back bow to the neck with a single action truss rod. So I bought this 1960s Teisco Tulip Del Rey three or four years ago. Hopefully this has more of a happy ending The 17th century saw the Dutch speculate in a market bubble of Tulip flower bulbs. For those who follow the stock market gyrations.
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