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Chubbles

Chubbles

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I had a problem with one of my Strats. A jack plate screw hole broke through into the jack cavity. The jack plate was hanging by one screw. I tried glueing in small dowels, but it was a mess. Then I remembered this stuff...
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I packed some onto the area with a plastic knife, smoothed it (OCD), and let it dry for a few hours. I even forced some into the other hole to tighten it up (I usually do the glue/toothpick thing). After drilling the holes, the screws went in nice and tight. It holds up to removing the cable.

Remember this stuff. It can be useful in certain circumstances! I thought I'd mention it.
 
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I bash it shut. I dont think it's that long, maybe a month or too (previous experience). I suggest a small can (5 dollars). Oh, it now comes in different wood colors.
 
I noticed that at Lowes. They didn't have the right color (my OCD). I'll try that next time.
 
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That may very well be the stuff I covered a guitar with when I was a kid. I had the tele copy that I put a carvin fine tune bridge and a humbucker on. I covered the whole thing with some sort of putty. Sanded it and then sprayed painted it a copper/penny color. I think it was the first guitar I played out live with. I can remember using scotch tape and glue to hold the chunks of putty on that started coming off over time - lol. Oh, man - I'm not sure if anyone would that anymore. One guitar I broke in half I used tin from a tin can, nails, and wrapped the whole body with black tape - lol. That guitar was actually well liked by some locally. Go figure ;)
 
Chubbles said:
The secret of good tone: some kind of putty and black tape. What would the cork sniffers say?
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lol...
Those were the days of leaving excess string on so when a string broke you may be able to let some out of the tuning peg so you could wrap the other end on a safety pin or something ;)
Which reminds me, the strings on my guitar may need to be changed here soon, as they've probably been on there 6 months or so...
I'm going to be drummed out of the league of guitars for letting the cat out of the bag on all my tone secrets.
But, to be honest - I don't like fresh strings when I record - I like them broke in for a while.
 
I've heard of people boiling strings to break them in. I've also heard of people soaking them in liquid nitrogen to make them last longer . I've tried both. I noticed no huge difference. I just give them a really good stretch: what I call "The note bends from hell".
 
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