syscokid
Ambassador of War & Peace
Progress?
Vintage Gibson SG Project:
- Thread starter Inspector #20
- Start date
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Vibrola came in. I installed it at lunch...
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I used Faber locking tailpiece screws and spacers to yield. 070" at the 12th on the low 'E' with. 010" neck relief and .060" on the high 'e' string.
The reproduction Maestro, from Copper Basin Guitars in Boise, Idaho, is slightly different in length than the original piece. This required plugging the original screw holes with mahogany dowels and relocating the new Maestro back about 1/4" or so.
Original Gibson knobs and pointers were obtained from a Reverb seller.
As always, I notch and profile the bridge bar to keep the string spacing from changing as the string bar can be easily moved across the mounting bracket.
It's finished...
The reproduction Maestro, from Copper Basin Guitars in Boise, Idaho, is slightly different in length than the original piece. This required plugging the original screw holes with mahogany dowels and relocating the new Maestro back about 1/4" or so.
Original Gibson knobs and pointers were obtained from a Reverb seller.
As always, I notch and profile the bridge bar to keep the string spacing from changing as the string bar can be easily moved across the mounting bracket.
It's finished...
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Fricking excellent work...The guitar still sounded in tune after all those dives! Amazing!
Thanks, Man!!!!
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It's not bad....P90 is very noisy....tone control is totally mud at '5' on the knob, but it plays pretty well
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Thanks, Man!!!!
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The SG goes home today, freeing up another hanger in my guitar space.
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Mission Accomplished!!!!
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Another successful headstock break repair...
In the Fender factory no less !
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Of course!