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Will have a bit more work to do getting the neck to work right - needs a bit of thickness taking off under the 22 fret extension, and will probably need a small shim under this end in the pocket, but nothing drastic. Also probably a mil or two taking off the pickguard where it butts up to the neck. But this sort of stuff is usual I've found.
Another time consuming job on the neck next, which is making a nut to fit the curved-base slot - I have a couple of bone blanks (see above) so will use one of these. Then more neck jobs loom - needs the wood filling back a bit under the 22 fret extension so it can fit over the end of the pickguard, needs a fret level and dress (note sharp-looking fret end in pic above), and needs a finish applying of course.
Pilot holes drilled:
Check positioning (ok would have been a bugger to do much about it if it was wrong, but checked anyhow )
Holes drilled out to final diameter (actually done in two more stages, but this is the result):
Just to get them working right, I put in the 6 screws without fitting the bridge - bit of soap on the threads, and did my best to keep them spot on vertical as they went in:
As puchased with zinc block:
Ready to swap:
Rolled steel block fitted:
FWIW I've done an Eric Johnson thing I read him mention once - i.e. used my levelling beam to sand on the base of the bridge unit and top of the trem block to ensure they are dead flat and make maximum contact. Without doing this, I could see gaps if I held the unit up to a window - after, no gaps, and you couldn't get a fag paper in there. It makes sense to me anyhow - I know some of Mr Johnson's ideas are a bit out there, but I think this is reasonable.
Using a phillips screwdriver that just fits snugly to mark through the drilling positions on the neck heel:
That was yesterday anyhow, hope of some interest - more to come and cheers!
Method for holding the neck still for drilling:
Pilot holes drilled - these were then enlarged to correct diameter, but somehow forgot to photograph that.
Neck attached to body yay!
Holes for trem claw drilled, and trem unit properly fitted - it's decked to the body for now, but I'm planning to set it floating.
One mistake I made was trying to use Colron Danish Oil to finish the neck - this imparts a somewhat peachy red tint to maple, as seen below, and I realised the next day that it looked terrible against the yellow/lime-ish gold of the body. Fortunately... very fortunately in fact, I was able to sand the finish right back, which removed the colouring effect, and start again using Tru Oil, which has given more of a subtle yellow/amber kind of tint, which does look fine against the gold body. This is still in progress, but I'll post a pic of the result when done. Lucky that the initial application of Danish Oil did not ruin things permanently and that it didn't prevent the Tru Oil going on properly. Anyhow, the near-disaster shown below, in the interests of honesty:
Colron danish oil - just say no!
http://www.edispickups.com/single.html