Best Source For 1/2" Oversize Mahogany Dowels:

Mahogany might be a hard find in a dowel.
What is the need for?

I've bought guitar body slabs from these guys:
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Perhaps they can custom turn something for you?
 
There are Dowels and there are plugs.

If I am not mistaken, one is in the across grain direction, the other is in the direction of the grain.

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Plugging Holes: Plugs Vs. Dowels — Haze Guitars

Sometimes you can use whatever’s handy to plug a hole; toothpick, dowel, or whatever. Sometimes, though, actually cutting a plug is the better way to go. Check out the pros and cons…
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fitz said:
Just a suggestion from a woodworker:
A common hardwood dowl like poplar, set just below the guitar surface, with a mahogany veneer cap would be easier to source.
I can't imagine it would drastically affect the guitar's resonant tone, if at all.
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I agree.

I just thought mahogany made sense for this project.

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chilipeppermaniac said:
Oh crap. Robert, you misdrillled your beautiful SG project guitar?
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Yes, and I may not fix it. I foolishly tried to do this during a period of very great stress and made a mistake. It was just a silly project anyways. I may just pull the tuners and scrap the project.

I have zero emotional attachment to this project. Guitars are just tools I need for work.

This project was born out of a 4/22/2022 sketch/idea to make a more 'drop-resistant' SG and it was easy to build while working at Fender. My 'home workshop' is not very well equipped for this type of work.

When I was building the DoubleNeck and the Von Herndon Stagecrafters, I was using a lot of the equipment at B. Hefner with the management's blessings, so I - quite literally - had a guitar factory at my disposal.
 
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fitz said:
Just a suggestion from a woodworker:
A common hardwood dowl like poplar, set just below the guitar surface, with a mahogany veneer cap would be easier to source.
I can't imagine it would drastically affect the guitar's resonant tone, if at all.
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Good suggestion.
 
Inspector #20 said:
Yes, and I may not fix it. I foolishly tried to do this during a period of very great stress and made a mistake. It was just a silly project anyways. I may just pull the tuners and scrap the project.
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Robert,

Show me the damaged areas. Close up pics.

Now C'mon, don't scrap the project, wasn't the neck and body joinery work a high priority stellar type endeavor worthy of completing and making a primo playing guitar from your efforts?
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Robert,

Show me the damaged areas. Close up pics.

Now C'mon, don't scrap the project, wasn't the neck and body joinery work a high priority stellar type endeavor worthy of completing and making a primo playing guitar from your efforts?
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It's not here any longer to photo, but I did post quite a few pics of the mis-drilled tailpiece. The SG is currently at a music chum's shop where the pickups and wire harness are being used for another build.

The wire harness alone was a real work of art. I didn't take any photos of it, but it was really cool looking and all the wires were bent around a pencil and laid perfectly in alignment with the other ones.

I used long-shaft pots and a long LP style switch in this because I intentionally made the cavity deeper to avoid the short-shaft/90 degree switch mandates.
 
Inspector #20 said:
It's not here any longer to photo, but I did post quite a few pics of the mis-drilled tailpiece. The SG is currently at a music chum's shop where the pickups and wire harness are being used for another build.

The wire harness alone was a real work of art. I didn't take any photos of it, but it was really cool looking and all the wires were bent around a pencil and laid perfectly in alignment with the other ones.
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I see.

I suspected the holes were NOT the controls holes in the photo above. They looked normal to me.
 
Inspector #20 said:
It's not here any longer to photo, but I did post quite a few pics of the mis-drilled tailpiece. The SG is currently at a music chum's shop where the pickups and wire harness are being used for another build.

The wire harness alone was a real work of art. I didn't take any photos of it, but it was really cool looking and all the wires were bent around a pencil and laid perfectly in alignment with the other ones.

I used long-shaft pots and a long LP style switch in this because I intentionally made the cavity deeper to avoid the short-shaft/90 degree switch mandates.
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Tell me where to see these posts of the mis drilling. I don't know where you posted them.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
I see.

I suspected the holes were NOT the controls holes in the photo above. They looked normal to me.
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Those are not stock Gibson placement, but they are in the right spot.

I just got the tailpiece off a bit and the strings don't line up, so I stopped at that point.

It would be very easy to plug it and re-drill it correctly, but I had so much going on that I tried to make some progress on the project during a very hectic period of time (working mornings at the studio in Hollywood and afternoon/evenings at the law firm) and that was a mistake.
 
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