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When I did the finish on my white limba tele body, I first stained it in LMI alcohol based aniline dye, and then applied tru-oil in several coats. The end result is not bad, although tru-oil finish can never protect wood as well as lacquer or poly. Here is the body: I tried to use the same...

Hi Stratamania, thanks for your advice. I don't mind doing some woodwork myself, but does Gotoh post inserts fit into Am Std post holes just fine? I went to your purple strat build page and noticed in the bridge cavity, there seems to be some extra routing done because I saw lighter color wood...

Thanks all for the inputs. Jesse: When you sent in your bridge, did they know it's not exactly the same Gotoh model listed on their page (see below)? I also emailed Warmoth and they said they CAN'T do custom routing for bridges NOT listed on the bridge routing page, which excludes the EV...

After owning Wilkinson/Gotoh VS100 and VSVG bridges, I'm thinking trying a "true" Gotoh EV510T-BS bridge (http://www.g-gotoh.com/international/?btp_product=ev510t-bs) on a new build. However does anyone know which routing option on the Warmoth bridge routing page I should choose (Am Std or...