I took a drill to my Les Paul tonight!

[Headache]

So..... I ordered some Gotoh locking tuners for my newest Gibby.
turns out it was the first time I didn't double check the peg hole sizes before I ordered!! FML! I'm am idiot...

And since I'm also an impatient idiot....

So.... I looked online and got the diameter... I had a drill bit close enough.... Eyeballed the depth and put a lock on the bit..... Carefully carefully used my best judgement and drilled the peg holes out in 2 stages.

Either I'm skilled, I'm a complete idiot, or I have giant steel cajones!
I am completely ok with any assessment you deem fitting..

Pics of tonight's excitement in the garage!



These little suckers stumped me for a while, they didn't want to tap out.... Finally figured out they were splined into the wood, so I had to tap them pretty hard!


Success!!

 

[Headache]

 

[iblive]

Don’t ya love a happy ending. Kinda like a Hallmark movie.

 

[mcblink]

Are you really not wearing any socks?

 

[Iron1]

I had to do that to my project SSS. I wasn't as careful as you cause it's a $100 guitar and I'm reshaping the headstock soon. Good job!

Are you really not wearing any socks?

My brain caught that too. #Rando

 

[LiveeviL2000]

Are you really not wearing any socks?

THATS your take away from all this!?!?

 

[Ramo]

Are you really not wearing any socks?

At least he isn’t stretching his socks up to his belly like you do.lmfao

 

[flatrockmobile]

Now you need a black nut to make the headstock complete!

 

[Iron1]

Now you need a black nut to make the headstock complete!

And a dyed black fretboard

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Thats the older press in bushings.But you done well.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Now you need a black nut to make the headstock complete!

Black Nuts Matter

 

[Headache]

Are you really not wearing any socks?

Woah ... I mean.... I know my musical tastes are a bit rough sometimes but.....WHAT KIND OF SICKO, WHACK JOB, SERIAL KILLER, FREAK DO YOU THINK I AM?

I wear short socks! LMFAO.....
No socks? Ewwww!

Here is proof so that we never have to relive that kind of trauma again ah ha ha ha ha..

 

[Session 5]

Black Nuts Matter

No Chilli, It's Black Guitars...

 

[mcblink]

Woah ... I mean.... I know my musical tastes are a bit rough sometimes but.....WHAT KIND OF SICKO, WHACK JOB, SERIAL KILLER, FREAK DO YOU THINK I AM?

I wear short socks! LMFAO.....
No socks? Ewwww!

Here is proof so that we never have to relive that kind of trauma again ah ha ha ha ha..
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Hahahahaaa!!

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

No Chilli, It's Black Guitars...

Don't rub it in, Norm. MY Life long lament was of selling my very first guitar and never being able to reach the guy who bought it off me to see if he had ANY possible clue where it might be since he left Maryland for the nether regions of Texas and Tennessee if my research is accurate. IT was my BLACK Les Paul Std.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Norm, I got busy cooking chicken for our dogs' food, and eggs and blueberry pancakes us, and feeding the cats. So you beat me to it on the next black matters.

So, breakfast consumed, and now I can finish. BLACK SOCKS Matter.

 

[LPCM]

Is that a 2018 BFG that you are working on there ?

 

[RVA]

Nice job! So what is that ring around the bit as you drill?

 

[Sapient]

Ummm ..what about the holes in back of the headstock now? Sorry if you said but I ADD'd out of reading.

That is soooo unacceptable, I have to call out.



Black socks are cool though. Mine are gray. Lol.

 

[Sapient]

Are you really not wearing any socks?

I'm confused. No socks is uncool? I'm getting old.