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FrankenSSK: 1391472 – August 3rd, 1987

This is my first personal SSK I’ve claimed as my own. I put it together out of the scrappier parts I had as an experiment. It’s not as clean yet as it should be, but I was really anxious at the time to try out my modified membrane sheets!!!

I’ve figured out how I’ll be doing future membrane re-tracing better than this, and I’ll close up the gap between the new traces to avoid having a little membrane “tag” sticking out the side.

A confident little board with lots of character.

I reconditioned its twin, Claire.

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