Here's a fun project! Got this really old and broken Hofner 450s from the 60s.

It's probably a low end model which was made to export from Germany. The company that imported this guitar in Singapore was "REX TMA LTD". A look inside the body revealed a date stamp of "19 DEZ 1960", but the neck was pre 1960 because it lacked a truss rod. It was common for Hofner parts to be matched from different manufacture dates.

Many things wrong with it and it's unplayable. Let's see if I can restore it to at least a playable state.

In this part, I remove the neck from the body and remove the frets.

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