monchavo
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Six years ago I was suffering from some significant depression caused by overwork. To pick myself up I decided to build a guitar - my first - from scratch.
For six months I pored over warmoth, refining continually what I wanted. I alighted on a beautiful ocean burst swamp ash body, chambered, and a neck of incomparable beauty - combining both flame and birdseye maple in the same slab of delicious wood. I went with exquisitely crafted Callaham parts, very expensive Fralin pickups and, for some reason, probably because , as a spotty teenager I lusted after a Strat Plus in the fender catalogue - locking sperzel tuners.
In my haste to get the build underway I rushed things, and, not following the carpenter's adage of "measure twice cut once" drilled several holes in the back of the headstock for the mounting pins of the tuners. A couple of these holes were out of position, resulting in "wonky" tuners. This mistake made me feel absolutely awful about the guitar, I stopped assembling it, and it has lain dormant since then.
Since that time I have built three telecasters and I am now onto my third strat, but the original parts for this beauty, have languished, untouched, since that time. Every time I go to think about repairing the damage my younger, foolish self did to the neck I shy away and start a new build, unsure of exactly how to repair it.
So, there's lots of conflicting advice out there. What would you do, o wise shamans of UW? Should I fill and redrill? If so, with what? Should I just embiggen the pin-hole to allow the tuner to sit straight and not worry about it?
Your collective wisdom is appreciated.
For six months I pored over warmoth, refining continually what I wanted. I alighted on a beautiful ocean burst swamp ash body, chambered, and a neck of incomparable beauty - combining both flame and birdseye maple in the same slab of delicious wood. I went with exquisitely crafted Callaham parts, very expensive Fralin pickups and, for some reason, probably because , as a spotty teenager I lusted after a Strat Plus in the fender catalogue - locking sperzel tuners.
In my haste to get the build underway I rushed things, and, not following the carpenter's adage of "measure twice cut once" drilled several holes in the back of the headstock for the mounting pins of the tuners. A couple of these holes were out of position, resulting in "wonky" tuners. This mistake made me feel absolutely awful about the guitar, I stopped assembling it, and it has lain dormant since then.
Since that time I have built three telecasters and I am now onto my third strat, but the original parts for this beauty, have languished, untouched, since that time. Every time I go to think about repairing the damage my younger, foolish self did to the neck I shy away and start a new build, unsure of exactly how to repair it.
So, there's lots of conflicting advice out there. What would you do, o wise shamans of UW? Should I fill and redrill? If so, with what? Should I just embiggen the pin-hole to allow the tuner to sit straight and not worry about it?
Your collective wisdom is appreciated.