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New Rendal Wall Interview 2025

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DavesNotHere

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It's always a good day when you you have an email from fretfiler42 in your in basket!

Great conversation! Thanks for sharing.

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bolero

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hey amazing! great article

the truss rod history with his father Rem chamfering the nut was fascinating, I never knew about that!

And it's funny: I never knew the development history of Bigby's, but after I got my first one I wondered why they didn't just drill holes in the roller bar.

Now I know the answer: they did originally, but strings were breaking and Ren came up with the fix they still use.

Thanks for writing/posting that.

Here's to The Honorable Ren-aissance man!

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This explains that odd finish on some Heritage guitars...

"I got a hold of 3M in Minnesota and we worked out the formula for 18% gray. We sprayed it on a card. We ended up spraying a lot of them here at Heritage for several years and sold them to all the photography stores. That 18% gray was also what we used for the finish on the 101 and the 105 Heritage guitar and bass. You didn't even have to sand it. You just made the body, sprayed it with an 18% gray and that was it. "

So now we know (for those of us like me who didn't know) what that paint was on the 101's.  The paint was actually a Ren Wall invention!

 

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