Recent content by gdgross

Yeah, didn’t mean to be ambiguous. I’m 99% sure I drilled into a chamber on 3 out of the 4 holes. I think I’m going to proceed with either a wood dowel or epoxy fill. Never been one for pristine guitars anyway lol.  I hope I’ll be able to keep most of the additional drilling underneath the...

Thanks for checking Mark, much appreciated! Still thinking I’m gonna try a fill of some sort. Only one screw all the way into solid wood just makes me nervous. And it’s one of the front screws, so if there were any temptation to pull up, that’d be the pivot point rather than a good anchor...)

I asked warmoth and they said it’s about 1/8” thick. Not enough for me to feel comfortable with. Most hollow electrics w bigsbys have thicker tops than that I’m guessing. Think I’m gonna try an epoxy or dowel fill

Yeah, I was imagining the dowels glued well to the bottom of the chambers at least, but that might be hard to guarantee. what about filling the chambers with some kind of epoxy?  Or perhaps some kind of hard wood putty or something?

It’s a finished body (finished by me last week) and I don’t have any pics, but they wouldn’t show much unless I drilled out the holes bigger like I said, it’s just look like a body with four screw holes for the B5 tremolo... I can take some tonight if you think it’d help visualize tho.  In the...

Hi all, have a chambered Jazzmaster body on which I’m installing a bigsby B5. (Had warmoth rout for a tune o Matic bridge and angled neck pocket) I spaced the Trem and drilled pilot holes for the 4 mounting screws on the bigsby. 3 out of 4 of them are over the chambered areas, I think, as they...

Thanks, I'll look into them!  Hadn't heard of Babicz before

Hi all, anyone know of a TOM bridge that has a flat-ish radius?  (like one what will match a warmoth 10-16" compound radius neck?  Most of the aftermarket ones I see are 12" or 14" Thanks! Geoff

Yeah, that's kinda how I'm leaning. It'll just cost me my own time and a can of finish if I screw it up :-)

Here's a pic of a tom anderson butterscotch with alder - wonder how they did it?

Thanks guys - I know it's barking up a hard tree but I just love the look o that butterscotch ash strat body! Heh. I think I'll try staining and sanding down a bit - have nothing to lose other than my time I guess. I know it won't look like my ash body, but I am hoping for SOME kind of grain...

Hey guys, finishing a second body for my main strat sometime soon. The strat currently has an ash body with a usacg maple/RW neck. It's a Floyd setup w locking nut and the whole 9 yards. I've felt this guitar was a bit on the bright side, so I bought a new warmoth ash body to try. I'll finish...

Weil i found a good Deal on eBay for the hipshots - ordered a set, all short shafts, this should fit the bill nicely. Strat mania is right, the retainer bar has to be low enough so that the position of the string as it exits the locking nut does not change when you clamp the locking bits down...

What he said - it's not the string tree, but the retainer bar right close to the locking nut. That being said, the hipshots look like the ticket - they fit the m6 mini pattern already one headstock, and I can get them with the shorter height. Thanks!

So I've got a strat with a locking nut that has the schaller m6 mini tuners on the headstock. Problem is that their height is a bit too tall with the string retainer. So I'm looking for a similar tuning machine that has a shorter shaft. Frankly as short as possible will be fine. I noticed the m6...